Nuclear Radiology: Page 45

Facing Mo-99 shortage, nuclear medicine economizes
By Alexandra Weber Morales
What would a world without molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) look like? That's a question U.S. nuclear medicine physicians are contemplating as limited Mo-99 supplies decay by half every 66 hours.
June 10, 2009
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FDA OKs new UltraSPECT feature
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine firm UltraSPECT has added a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-cleared half-dose imaging feature to its Xpress.Cardiac half-time wide-beam reconstruction (WBR) image reconstruction product.
June 7, 2009
GE reports PACS/NM integration, new installs
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare reported progress at last week's Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine meeting in integrating its PACS and nuclear medicine software.
June 7, 2009
CMS to consider paying for F-18 PET bone scans
By Brian Casey
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun a regulatory process that could lead to reimbursement for PET bone scans using the fluorine-18 (F-18) sodium fluoride radiopharmaceutical. Nuclear medicine advocates believe that PET bone scans could provide an alternative to SPECT bone studies, which use the technetium-99m radiopharmaceutical that is currently in short supply.
June 4, 2009
UltraSPECT nets FDA OK for software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine firm UltraSPECT has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its attenuation correction/scatter correction (ACSC) software package.
June 1, 2009
Neoprobe starts second Lymphoseek trial
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gamma camera probe developer Neoprobe has begun enrollment for a second multicenter phase III trial for its Lymphoseek radiopharmaceutical agent.
May 27, 2009
GE wins CZT gamma camera installs
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has received contracts for four installations of its nuclear cardiology camera based on cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) digital detectors, the company said.
May 27, 2009
SPR group tackles radiation dose in pediatric nuclear medicine
By Marty Graham
So far, much of the recent attention toward reducing pediatric radiation dose has focused on CT. But nuclear medicine is also an area where radiation dose can be better tailored to the specific needs of children, according to members of a Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) working group tasked to address the issue.
May 21, 2009
CMS reconsiders cervical cancer FDG-PET coverage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medical Services (CMS) has opened a review of its coverage policies on FDG-PET for the staging of cervical cancer following the submission of a petition from several nuclear medicine physicians.
May 11, 2009
JNM publishes FDG-PET supplement
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The May issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine features an editorial supplement on the usefulness of PET imaging for the treatment of several cancers.
May 11, 2009
SPECT with OSEM-3D reconstruction lowers pediatric radiation dose
By Wayne Forrest
Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School have found that they can get better image quality and lower radiation dose in pediatric SPECT renal studies by using a data reconstruction technique based on ordered subset expectation maximization with 3D resolution recovery (OSEM-3D).
May 4, 2009
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UltraSPECT launches new SPECT package
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine firm UltraSPECT has added a new SPECT package to its product line.
April 30, 2009
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