Radiation Oncology/Therapy: Page 436

FDA clears Bio-Scan digital portal imaging device
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Food and Drug Administration has cleared Bio-Scan’s digital IRIS (Interactive Radiotherapy Imaging System) for use in radiation therapy. IRIS is a portal imager for patient-positioning control during treatment.
June 20, 2002
Dual-time-point FDG-PET improves pulmonary nodule assessment
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
LOS ANGELES - Researchers at the Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting outlined a protocol to improve the accuracy of pulmonary nodule FDG-PET imaging. The technique involves imaging patients at two time points versus traditional single-time-point PET.
June 20, 2002
Immunomedics touts breast cancer therapy gains
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Pharmaceutical firm Immunomedics reported favorable preclinical developments with a new antibody labeling method for use in breast cancer therapy.
June 19, 2002
CTI installs first ECAT Reveal-RT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PET vendor CTI Molecular Imaging of Knoxville, TN, has completed the first installation of its ECAT Reveal-RT CT/PET scanner.
June 17, 2002
NAS pulls Apomate filing
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
North American Scientific has temporarily withdrawn its Apomate radiopharmaceutical investigational new drug (IND) application from the Food and Drug Administration.
June 17, 2002
Hitachi, Rosses team up
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Hitachi Medical Corporation of America and image-guided treatment planning and delivery software developer Rosses Medical Systems have formed a joint effort to develop and promote ultrasound-guided prostate cancer treatment offerings.
June 16, 2002
Varian gets clearance for new Helios software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Varian Medical Systems has received Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for a new version of its Helios intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatment planning software.
June 16, 2002
CTI rolls out Emerge, QuickStart
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PET provider CTI Molecular Imaging has rolled out ECAT Emerge, a new PET scanner based on lutetium oxyorthosilicate detectors.
June 16, 2002
Radiodetection may find more than one sentinel node
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
LOS ANGELES - Lymphoscintigraphy has been used for years to help detect breast metastases, but radiodetection may detect sentinal nodes more reliably. According to French researchers at the 2002 Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting, the latter method can also detect more than one sentinal node.
June 16, 2002
InSite One tapped for archiving at Piper Breast Center
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
InSiteOne will supply offsite DICOM image storage and Web distribution services to the Piper Breast Center.
June 12, 2002
Nucletron names Coats as president
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Nucletron of Columbia, MD, has named Jack Coats as president.
June 12, 2002
MDS expands manufacturing facilities
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canadian radioisotope supplier MDS Nordion is expanding its radiopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.
June 11, 2002
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