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PET/CT CAD finds common spinal metastases

By Eric Barnes

A new multipurpose computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithm was able to detect and characterize different kinds of spinal metastases in PET/CT images automatically and accurately, say researchers from two U.S. institutions. The fully automated system could help doctors diagnose and manage patients with the most common musculoskeletal metastases.

January 22, 2017

Total-body PET scanner project adds expertise

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

A consortium that is developing a total-body PET scanner called Explorer has chosen two partners to help create the system.

January 18, 2017

Are radiation dose guidelines scaring patients?

By Wayne Forrest

Are guidelines urging healthcare practitioners to reduce radiation dose when imaging patients simply inducing radiation phobia for procedures that have little to no health risk? That's the provocative stance of a new article published in the January 2017 issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

January 12, 2017

PET/CT may have found cardiovascular event trigger

By Wayne Forrest

PET/CT scans have identified activity in a stress-related structure in the brain that could be linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a study published online January 11 in Lancet.

January 11, 2017

Chinese nuclear medicine firm comes to U.S.

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Chinese nuclear medicine equipment developer Top Grade Healthcare is setting down roots in the U.S.

January 11, 2017

Brain tumor diagnosis, therapeutics set for growth

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

A higher incidence of various brain cancers and a growing geriatric population will propel the global market for brain tumor diagnosis and therapeutics products to reach $773.1 million in revenues by 2025, according to a new report by market research firm Grand View Research.

January 9, 2017

PET/CT remains best option for head, neck cancer

By Wayne Forrest

While PET/MRI shows great promise in a multitude of clinical applications, German researchers have found that the hybrid modality's performance in evaluating head and neck cancer appears no better than that of tried-and-true PET/CT.

January 8, 2017

New therapeutic agent could treat prostate cancer

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

German researchers are highlighting the potential of a new therapeutic agent for radioligand therapy of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in a study published in the January issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

January 5, 2017

Gamma Medica completes Ind. installation

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Molecular imaging developer Gamma Medica has installed its LumaGem molecular breast imaging (MBI) system at Major Health Partners of Indiana.

January 3, 2017

Journal of Nuclear Medicine gets new editor in chief

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging has tapped Dr. Johannes Czernin to be the new editor in chief of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

January 3, 2017

GE purchases expanded rights to Rapiscan stress agent

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare's Life Sciences unit has purchased exclusive rights to produce and sell the Rapiscan pharmacological stress agent in territories outside of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

January 2, 2017

NorthStar nets more funds from U.S. government

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

NorthStar Medical Technologies has received $11.1 million in matching funds from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration to support development of the firm's accelerator method for producing molybdenum-99.

December 20, 2016

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