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UCLA launches brain SPECT venture
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Harbor-UCLA Faculty Practice Plan is teaming with Brain Matters, a Denver-based software provider, to launch a state-of-the-art brain function imaging service next month.
June 19, 2005
Siemens debuts Symbia S
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Medical Solutions will introduce its SPECT-only offering, Symbia S, this week at the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) meeting in Toronto.
June 19, 2005
Philips adds 64 slices to hybrid scanners
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
TORONTO - Multimodality vendor Philips Medical Systems has added a 64-slice CT capability to its PET/CT and SPECT/CT systems. The company made the announcement at this week's Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) meeting.
June 19, 2005
GE adds new PET/CT to portfolio
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
TORONTO - Multimodality vendor GE Healthcare is launching a new premium PET/CT scanner at this week's Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) meeting. The Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., company is also highlighting a new cyclotron, radiotracer lab, and bone reconstruction algorithm.
June 19, 2005
Hitachi adds cardiac software for Sceptre PET/CT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
TORONTO - Hitachi Medical Systems America of Twinsburg, OH, has released the Emory Cardiac Toolbox PETtools software for use with its Sceptre P3 PET/CT system and an upgrade to its Avia multimodality PACS workstation.
June 19, 2005
PET and PET/CT best bone scan in detecting breast metastases
By Brian Casey
TORONTO - A pair of studies at yesterday's Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) meeting found that PET and PET/CT offer superior performance compared to bone scintigraphy scans in detecting bony metastases from primary breast cancer. But bone scintigraphy still offers better performance in a couple areas and may continue to play a diagnostic role due to its low cost.
June 19, 2005
PET shows therapy can alter opioid receptors in bulimics
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
TORONTO - The use of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), the application of cognitive psychotherapy to change thinking patterns combined with behavior therapy to modify the connections between situation and reaction, in patients with bulimia nervosa results in increased mu-opioid receptor (mu-OR) binding, according to a presentation Sunday at the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) meeting.
June 19, 2005
MDCT, MRI competitive in some bone lesion applications
By Eric Barnes
SAN FRANCISCO - Some facilities, and even a few researchers, have begun to favor the growing diagnostic capabilities of multidetector-row CT over MRI for assessing bone lesions. And they are daring to ask if CT might have advanced enough to take on MRI's robust characterization of many musculoskeletal pathologies.
June 19, 2005
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Biophan finalizes MRA stent license
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MRI device developer Biophan Technologies said it has finalized an exclusive license with German biomedical researchers, Drs. Arno Bucker and Alexander Ruebben, for their stent technology that enables magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) in or around metallic stents.
June 16, 2005
GE signs Beth Israel
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare reported that it has signed a strategic purchase agreement with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston to provide cardiac imaging technology, according to the Chalfont St. Giles, U.K.-based vendor.
June 16, 2005
Medtronic completes VALOR enrollment
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical device developer Medtronic said it has completed patient enrollment for the Vascular Talent Thoracic Stent Graft System for the Treatment of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms (VALOR), a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of its Talent thoracic stent graft system for the treatment of thoracic aortic diseases.
June 16, 2005
No slam dunk: Partial cuff tears defy MRI, US diagnosis
By Tracie L. Thompson
If there's only an MRI diagnosis of partial thickness rotator cuff tear (PTRCT), the shoulder surgery should probably wait. That's the upshot of two studies that also serve as reminders of inherent and practical limitations of diagnostic imaging in particularly difficult-to-visualize scenarios.
June 16, 2005
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