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Australia offers update on medical isotope production

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Australia is ready to pitch in to help ensure the world has enough medical isotopes following the end of production last week at the National Research Universal nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ontario.

November 10, 2016

Road to RSNA 2016: Molecular Imaging Preview

By Wayne Forrest

Presentations at RSNA 2016 will highlight the potential of molecular imaging to advance healthcare in the coming years. The development of novel radiotracers to explore neurodegenerative conditions, the convergence of PET with MRI, and maturing applications in PET and PET/CT continue to guide a wide range of clinical applications.

November 9, 2016

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PET/CT helps evaluate NSCLC patients after therapy

By Wayne Forrest

Thursday, December 1 | 10:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | SSQ04-02 | Room S402ABThis session will address how combining size and metabolic PET/CT parameters for patients undergoing radiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) could help clinicians predict survival and determine who would benefit from additional therapy.

November 9, 2016

A 'heads-up' PET/MRI strategy recommended for cancer patients

By Wayne Forrest

Wednesday, November 30 | 11:20 a.m.-11:30 a.m. | SSK13-06 | Room S505ABHow important is the head to a whole-body FDG-PET/MRI scan in cancer patients? By extending whole-body scans to include the brain, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center discovered significant and previously unknown incidental findings.

November 9, 2016

FDG-PET/CT OK for evaluating osteoarthritis

By Wayne Forrest

Tuesday, November 29 | 3:50 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | SSJ17-06 | Room S505ABRadiologists should turn to FDG-PET/CT to assess symptomatic osteoarthritis in the knees and hips, as well as pain in the shoulders, according to this presentation set for Tuesday.

November 9, 2016

Pilot study assesses fluoride-PET/MRI for joint arthritis

By Wayne Forrest

Tuesday, November 29 | 3:00 p.m.-3:10 p.m. | SSJ17-01 | Room S505ABIn this presentation, researchers from Germany will share their findings from a pilot study on the use of PET/MRI with F-18 fluoride to evaluate the sacroiliac joints in patients with ankylosing spondylitis.

November 9, 2016

Choose PET/CT for infection from lower-limb prosthetic implants

By Wayne Forrest

Tuesday, November 29 | 11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | SSG09-09 | Room E450BWhen clinicians suspect an infection after artificial hip or knee placement, FDG-PET/CT should be the modality of choice for diagnosis, according to research from India.

November 9, 2016

NaF-PET could be valuable for osteosarcoma assessment

By Wayne Forrest

Tuesday, November 29 | 10:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | RC311-09 | Room S505ABIn this session, researchers will describe their development of new criteria to evaluate osteosarcoma response to therapy based on PET with sodium fluoride (NaF).

November 9, 2016

PET tracer adds to understanding of tau-Alzheimer's connection

By Wayne Forrest

Monday, November 28 | 3:40 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | SSE18-05 | Room N229Evidence continues to mount for use of the novel PET tracer F-18 AV-1451 to evaluate neurofibrillary tau pathology in vivo, which has been linked to brain atrophy and Alzheimer's disease, according to this study being presented on Monday afternoon.

November 9, 2016

SPECT leads for cardiac imaging of obese patients

By Wayne Forrest

Monday, November 28 | 3:40 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | SSE16-05 | Room S505ABIn this study from Brazil, researchers found that SPECT can overcome inherent limitations of other imaging modalities in myocardial perfusion imaging of obese patients. The findings are particularly important given that overweight people are at greater risk for adverse cardiac events.

November 9, 2016

Why utilization of SPECT MPI is on the decline

By Wayne Forrest

Monday, November 28 | 3:20 p.m.-3:30 p.m. | SSE16-03 | Room S505ABReductions in reimbursement and the subsequent closure of many private cardiology offices has led to a substantial contraction in the utilization of standard SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) procedures, researchers from Philadelphia have found.

November 9, 2016

SPECT/CT can be valuable in abdominal emergencies

By Wayne Forrest

Monday, November 28 | 11:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m. | SSC10-04 | Room S505ABWhen faced with a gastrointestinal or genitourinary imaging emergency, adding SPECT/CT to the standard imaging options can help identify the source of the problem and lead to an appropriate intervention, according to this study.

November 9, 2016

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