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ImaginAb names chief business officer

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Imaging agent developer ImaginAb has named Ivan Plavec, PhD, as its new full-time chief business officer.

January 1, 2019

United Imaging breaks into U.S. imaging market

By Wayne Forrest

Shanghai-based United Imaging Healthcare (UIH) has officially put down stakes in the U.S. UIH Solutions made its debut at RSNA 2018 with a multimodality line of scanners, including a unique total-body PET scanner.

January 1, 2019

Is menopause a good time to treat women for Alzheimer's?

By Wayne Forrest

By using women's menopausal status and levels of beta-amyloid plaque as markers for possible progression to Alzheimer's disease, researchers are hoping to determine the best time to begin treatment to slow the onset of the condition, according to a study published online December 12 in PLOS One.

December 20, 2018

South African isotope firm dismisses reports of sale

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

South African radioisotope producer NTP Radioisotopes is taking exception with media reports stating that its board planned to secretly privatize the company and sell its assets to U.S.-based radiopharmaceutical firm Lantheus Medical Imaging.

December 18, 2018

NorthStar names Estrem as CFO

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

NorthStar Medical Technologies has named Paul Estrem to the posts of senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO).

December 18, 2018

PET/CT facility in India loses isotope license

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

A lack of expertise and absence of radiation safety has prompted the closure of a PET/CT imaging facility in northwest India, according to a December 18 article in the Kashmir Reader.

December 17, 2018

African nations ponder nuclear energy

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Several countries in Africa are considering an investment in nuclear energy, which could have a positive residual effect on the world's supply of medical isotopes.

December 17, 2018

AI could bring ultralow-dose imaging to amyloid PET

By Wayne Forrest

With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have developed a way to generate diagnostic-quality images from PET/MR scans to detect amyloid deposits with considerably less radiotracer dose. Their findings were published online December 11 in Radiology.

December 17, 2018

Ga-68 PSMA-11 PET/MRI benefits prostate cancer patients

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

PET/MRI with the radiopharmaceutical gallium-68 (Ga-68) prostate-specific membrane antigen-11 (PSMA-11) is on par with currently available tools for determining the risk of prostate cancer progression, according to a study published in the December issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

December 12, 2018

FDA to review Blue Earth's Axumin for brain cancer

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted molecular imaging firm Blue Earth Diagnostics' supplemental new drug application for the use of its Axumin (fluciclovine F-18) PET radiopharmaceutical in brain cancer detection.

December 10, 2018

South Africa purges board of NECSA nuclear agency

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The South African government last week dismissed the entire board of South African Nuclear Energy (NECSA), the federal agency that regulates the production of medical radioisotopes in the country.

December 10, 2018

PET tracers help guide breast cancer therapies

By Kate Madden Yee

PET imaging tracers that track breast cancer enzymes could help guide treatment of the disease, especially in women with BRCA mutations and triple-negative subtypes of cancer, according to two studies presented this week at the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

December 6, 2018

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