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MITA, patient groups lobby against imaging cuts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A number of patient groups and the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) gathered at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to lobby Congress to reject proposed imaging reimbursement cuts.
July 29, 2009
ASTRO decries proposed rad therapy cuts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A new survey indicates that a proposed 19% cut in federal payments for radiation therapy will cause many cancer centers to reduce services, deny treatment to Medicare patients, or close, according to the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).
July 29, 2009
Coalition urges Congress to act on Mo-99
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nine professional healthcare and related organizations are urging Congress to take steps to maintain adequate supplies of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99).
July 28, 2009
WHIA changes name, taps new board chair
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nonprofit group World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) of Chicago has changed its name and appointed a new board chair.
July 22, 2009
SNM extends trials network to Europe
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine society SNM announced that its Clinical Trials Network has expanded its membership with several European commercial providers of PET radiopharmaceuticals.
July 22, 2009
PETNet to supply F-18 FLT to SNM
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PETNet Solutions, a subsidiary of Siemens Healthcare, has been tapped to supply the investigational fluorine-18 fluorothymidine (F-18 FLT) radiotracer to the SNM's Clinical Trials Network.
July 19, 2009
ASTRO publishes APBI guidelines for early-stage breast cancer
By Cynthia E. Keen
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) this week published a new set of clinical guidelines covering the use of accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI) as a treatment for early-stage breast cancer.
July 15, 2009
ACRIN develops PET scanner program
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) has developed a qualification procedure for PET scanners to check basic system calibrations and to verify that clinical image quality is adequate for semiquantitative analysis of PET data.
July 14, 2009
New radiology organization launched
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A national collection of medical imaging industry personnel and diagnostic clinics have created the Imaging Radiology Oncology Association.
July 13, 2009
SNM awards research grants
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
SNM has awarded $175,000 in research grants through its Education and Research Foundation.
July 7, 2009
SIR publishes Standards supplement
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) has published its 2009 Standards Division Guidelines as part of a special supplement to the July issue of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.
July 6, 2009
ASRT launches CT learning module
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) has released the first in a series of interactive CT learning modules.
July 6, 2009
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