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Siemens and Gamma Medica ink pact
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Medical Solutions and gamma camera developer Gamma Medica of Northridge, CA, have signed an agreement giving Siemens exclusive U.S. marketing rights for Gamma Medica’s molecular imaging product, X-SPECT.
July 30, 2003
Pre-treatment with rhTSH reduces 131I retention in thyroid
By Robert Bruce
Researchers in the department of nuclear medicine at Johann W. Goethe University Hospital in Frankfurt examined 227 patients, 163 of whom were prepared for the therapy by thyroid hormone withdrawal and 64 of whom received recombinant human thyroid-stimulating hormone prior to therapy.
July 21, 2003
IS2 changes name
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gamma camera developer IS2 Research has changed its name to IS2 Medical Systems.
July 20, 2003
Web enhancements for SNM
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Society of Nuclear Medicine has updated the government relations section of its Web site.
July 20, 2003
Web-based teaching tool covers multiple modalities
By Shalmali Pal
Swiss and British imaging specialists have created a prototype for an Internet-based nuclear medicine tutorial program. MedTML is based on an open-standard software platform (XML) and supports the separation of layout and design from content.
July 15, 2003
Shortage of nuclear medicine technologists shows no signs of abating
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
The aging of certified nuclear medicine technologists matches that of the general U.S. population. But as more Americans require nuclear medicine services, a decreasing number of qualified professionals will be available to provide those services.
July 10, 2003
SNM goes live with online journal submission
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Society of Nuclear Medicine will now accept online manuscript submissions as well as conduct the peer review process on the Web.
July 7, 2003
CNMT shortage gets critical
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
In a conversation with AuntMinnie.com, Kathleen Murphy, chair-elect of the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board, offered her thoughts on CNMT education, both for new students and RTs seeking to cross over into the field.
July 6, 2003
BTG licenses radiotracer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Technology development firm BTG of West Conshohocken, PA, has licensed an imaging probe that could be used for the development of a new contrast agent for the detection of heart disease.
June 30, 2003
Immunomedics highlights LeukoScan research
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Immunomedics said that its work-in-progress LeukoScan radiopharmaceutical was featured in five presentations at the annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine in New Orleans.
June 25, 2003
Esophageal cancer patients benefit from clinical staging with FDG-PET
By Shalmali Pal
NEW ORLEANS - A negative FDG-PET scan is highly useful for excluding distant metastases in patients with pre-resection esophageal cancer, according to a poster presentation at the 2003 Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting.
June 25, 2003
Patience required for adding PET/CT to PACS
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
NEW ORLEANS - Any computer user who has wrestled with plug-and-play hardware that wasn't knows that adding peripherals can be frustrating. When it comes to bringing a PET/CT onto a PACS network, administrators often face daunting challenges, according to researchers at this week's Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting.
June 24, 2003
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