Nuclear Radiology: Page 71

Limiting PET radiation exposure requires tools, techniques

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

SAN DIEGO - Due to its relatively high photon energy, PET typically exposes personnel to higher radiation doses than do other nuclear medicine procedures. A presentation at the Academy of Molecular Imaging meeting offered strategies for minimizing the risk.

October 24, 2002

Along with SPECT, PET and MRI find niche in myocardial assessment

For many nuclear cardiologists, SPECT imaging is the workhorse technology for assessing myocardial viability. But PET and MRI are also making headway in the offices of cardiac imaging specialists.

October 20, 2002

U.K. team proposes new SLN detection technique with body outline

By Shalmali Pal

Gamma cameras that are equipped with a gadolinium-153 line source for attenuation correction can do double-duty as body outliners for localizing sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) prior to breast surgery, according to U.K. researchers.

October 20, 2002

Referring physicians reserve perfusion imaging for sickest patients

BALTIMORE - Coronary artery disease patients with the most serious symptoms are more likely to wind up in the nuclear medicine imaging department, resulting in skewed referral patterns, according to a presentation at the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology meeting.

September 29, 2002

PET advocates urge CMS to rethink proposed reimbursement rates

By Kate Madden Yee

Less than six months after raising Medicare reimbursement rates for FDG-PET procedures, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has recommended significantly lower rates for 2003, sparking a flurry of activity among PET proponents to educate CMS on the true cost of PET.

September 29, 2002

GE debuts cardiac gamma camera

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Medical Systems is launching Millennium Myosight, a new dedicated cardiac gamma camera, at the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology conference in Baltimore this week.

September 26, 2002

Reba joins Georgetown nuclear medicine program

Dr. Richard Reba will focus his efforts on the PET program.

September 22, 2002

Training on hybrid equipment encouraged for all RTs

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Any registered nuclear medicine technologist, radiographer, or radiation therapist is qualified to operate CT/PET machines as well as other hybrid imaging equipment.

September 18, 2002

PET, SPECT given equal weight at SNM 2002

By Shalmali Pal

Once an also-ran to other technologies, PET is finally coming into its own within the diagnostic armamentarium of the nuclear medicine physician. One sign of PET’s arrival was the fact that PET and SPECT results tied for Image of the Year at the 2002 Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting, June 18-21, in Los Angeles.

September 5, 2002

Dobutamine SPECT helps assess myocardial viability

Stress-gated SPECT imaging with a dobutamine-based radiopharmaceutical shows promise as a cardiac stress test, according to researchers from the Medical School of Ribeirao Preto in Brazil and the Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan.

August 18, 2002

AuntMinnie's IMV MarketStat #14: PET procedures per site

In 2001, the estimated average annual volume of clinical PET procedures per site was 385. Fixed PET sites conducted an average of 860 procedures per site in 2001, while mobile PET sites logged an average of 190 per site, and sites with NM-CD performed 195 procedures per site.

August 5, 2002

New camera may improve scintimammography

By Tracie L. Thompson

A new gamma camera designed specifically for breast imaging may improve the sensitivity of nuclear medicine in detecting breast cancer, an early study has found. The sensitivity of scintimammographic cancer detection increased from 64.3% with the conventional camera to 78.6% with the breast-specific camera.

August 5, 2002

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