Molecular Imaging: Page 430

NeuroSurvival Technologies gets financing, changes name

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Molecular imaging and therapy developer NeuroSurvival Technologies (NST) Israel, has completed $13.3 million in financing and changed its name.

August 19, 2008

Agfa integrates Barco 3D software

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Image display and advanced visualization firm Barco said that a new version of its Voxar 3D advanced visualization software has been integated into Agfa HealthCare's Impax PACS software.

August 18, 2008

VisEn debuts IntegriSense

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Optical imaging developer VisEn Medical has launched its IntegriSense fluorescence molecular imaging agent.

August 18, 2008

ART grows revenues in Q2

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Medical device firm ART Advanced Research Technologies credits the transition to a direct distribution model for its increase in revenues in the second quarter.

August 17, 2008

FDG-PET may help detect infection in knee prostheses

By Wayne Forrest

FDG-PET is showing early promise in accurately detecting infected knee prostheses, but researchers caution that more patient samples are needed to verify the imaging technique's efficacy. In a retrospective study, FDG-PET was performed on the affected knees in 52 patients with a painful prosthesis.

August 17, 2008

Novel cardiac SPECT system improves attenuation correction

By Wayne Forrest

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and nuclear medicine firm Digirad are developing a new x-ray-based transmission approach for attenuation correction in cardiac SPECT, which shows that high-quality transmission scans can be completed within one minute and with negligible patient dose.

August 14, 2008