Nuclear Medicine: Page 373

Digirad shows mobile triple-head gamma camera

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Nuclear medicine vendor Digirad is showing a prototype of its mobile triple-head Cardius-3 gamma camera at this week's American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting in Orlando.

March 6, 2005

MDCT staging may obviate bone scintigraphy in some patients

By Eric Barnes

VIENNA - Cancer patients undergoing full CT staging may not always need a bone scintigraphy exam, thanks to the diagnostic accuracy of multidetector-row CT scanners. A study presented today at the tumor imaging sessions of the 2005 European Congress of Radiology found 16-slice CT to be statistically equivalent to scintigraphy for detecting skeletal metastases.

March 5, 2005

Lemon candy may suck for curbing dry mouth after thyroid cancer therapy

By Shalmali Pal

Mother always warned you that eating candy before dinner would spoil your appetite. She may not have known that eating candy during radioiodine therapy for thyroid cancer can be just as bad. In a preliminary study, Japanese researchers have found that sucking on lemon candy too close to radiotherapy may actually worsen damage to the salivary glands.

March 1, 2005

SNM awards technologist grants

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Society of Nuclear Medicine recently awarded $40,000 in scholarships and grants for molecular/nuclear medicine technologist students.

February 22, 2005

CMS activates CPT codes for PET

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said it has adopted current procedural terminology (CPT) codes for PET procedure reimbursement, essentially discontinuing previously used G series Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes.

February 21, 2005

Medx to refurb Siemens gamma cameras

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Gamma camera refurbishing firm Medx of Arlington Heights, IL, has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to remanufacture Orbiter gamma cameras originally built by Siemens Medical Solutions of Malvern, PA.

February 10, 2005

Dilon gets Washington install

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Gamma camera developer Dilon Technologies of Newport News, VA, has installed its Dilon 6800 breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI) system at Providence Centralia Hospital in Centralia, WA.

February 8, 2005

AMI, ACRIN partner on PET registry development

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Academy of Molecular Imaging (AMI) is working with the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) on the development of a national registry of PET studies to help researchers comply with reimbursement rules promulgated by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) last week.

February 6, 2005

Immunomedics loss widens

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiopharmaceutical firm Immunomedics reported fiscal second-quarter revenue of $1 million, down 9% compared with the $1.1 million reported in the second quarter last year.

February 6, 2005

PEM development picks up pace

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

Although FDG-PET has demonstrated its capability to identify breast lesions, whole-body PET may not be the most efficient technology to image breast cancer. Positron emission mammography (PEM), however, has several potential benefits over whole-body PET for breast imaging, according to researchers from Duke University in Durham, NC.

February 6, 2005

AuntMinnie.com Molecular Imaging Radiology Insider

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

February 1, 2005

PET scanner sales pace CTI revenues

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

A big jump in sales of PET scanners helped propel CTI Molecular Imaging to strong revenue growth for the company's first quarter of fiscal 2005 (end-December 31).

January 31, 2005

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