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MDS Nordion medical isotope reactor restarted
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canadian isotope manufacturer MDS Nordion has received Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) authorization to restart low-power commissioning of its Maple 1 reactor at Chalk River, ON, near its Ottawa headquarters.
October 28, 2002
Positron emission mammography shows promise for breast imaging
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
SAN DIEGO - Positive results in mammography and ultrasound don't always correspond to malignancy, so researchers at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC, developed a technique that coregisters PET and mammographic images.
October 27, 2002
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Syncor debuts radiation emergency kits
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Syncor Radiation Management has begun marketing an emergency kit for use in possible terrorist attacks involving radiation contamination.
October 27, 2002
Cytogen implements reverse stock split
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Biopharmaceutical vendor Cytogen has implemented a 1-for-10 reverse stock split.
October 27, 2002
GE adds to PET offerings
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Medical Systems reported three developments in its PET activities at the Academy of Molecular Imaging meeting this week in San Diego.
October 27, 2002
PET-CT pioneers see benefit in key applications
By Brian Casey
SAN DIEGO - Hybrid PET-CT is all the rage in medical imaging, but when is it appropriate to use this powerful but expensive technology? A radiologist from the first hybrid PET-CT site in the world addressed the question at this week’s Academy of Molecular Imaging meeting.
October 24, 2002
Limiting PET radiation exposure requires tools, techniques
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
SAN DIEGO - Due to its relatively high photon energy, PET typically exposes personnel to higher radiation doses than do other nuclear medicine procedures. A presentation at the Academy of Molecular Imaging meeting offered strategies for minimizing the risk.
October 24, 2002
PET center deploys "secret weapon" in marketing efforts
By Brian Casey
SAN DIEGO - Once you've steered your imaging facility into the brave new world of PET scanning, you'll need a secret weapon to make it a success. At the 2002 Academy of Molecular Imaging meeting, marketing director Debbie Saraceni divulged her tactics.
October 23, 2002
International Isotopes begins manufacturing SPECT calibration sources
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
International Isotopes has begun contract manufacturing of dose calibrator and rod sources for SPECT imaging.
October 22, 2002
Using PET for Alzheimer's diagnosis lowers cost of care
By Eric Barnes
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have come up with some powerful reasons to justify the use of FDG-PET as an adjunct in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
October 20, 2002
Along with SPECT, PET and MRI find niche in myocardial assessment
For many nuclear cardiologists, SPECT imaging is the workhorse technology for assessing myocardial viability. But PET and MRI are also making headway in the offices of cardiac imaging specialists.
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U.K. team proposes new SLN detection technique with body outline
By Shalmali Pal
Gamma cameras that are equipped with a gadolinium-153 line source for attenuation correction can do double-duty as body outliners for localizing sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) prior to breast surgery, according to U.K. researchers.
October 20, 2002
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