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GE, Cytogen ink fusion imaging alliance

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Medical Systems and Cytogen have teamed up to market a prostate molecular imaging system built on GE's new Infinia Hawkeye SPECT/CT system and Cytogen's ProstaScint radiolabeled monoclonal antibody.

June 23, 2003

Gated SPECT shows lower cardiac indices in women

By Shalmali Pal

NEW ORLEANS - Does gender make a difference in imaging assessment of heart disease? Researchers from the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor tested the normal ranges of cardiac functional parameters in women and men -- and found that gender matters.

June 23, 2003

Del Q3 sales slip

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Del Medical Systems' parent, Del Global Technologies, reported fiscal third-quarter sales of $22.9 million, down 14.6% from the $26.8 million reported in the 2002 fiscal third quarter.

June 23, 2003

Eastern Isotopes, Bracco team up

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Ion Beam Applications subsidiary Eastern Isotopes is partnering with Bracco Diagnostics to offer unit-dose distribution of the myocardial perfusion agent rubidium-82.

June 23, 2003

LSO PET/CT study wins Image of the Year

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

NEW ORLEANS - The Society of Nuclear Medicine chose an image produced by a lutetium oxyorthosilicate (LSO) PET/CT as its 2003 Image of the Year. Dr. Benjamin Halpern and colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles, devised a protocol to make whole-body PET faster, and perhaps cheaper.

June 23, 2003

BrainLab moves into Asia

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Image-guided-surgery firm BrainLab has opened new offices in Seoul, Korea, and Kuala Lumpur.

June 22, 2003