Molecular Imaging: Page 108

Siemens gets CE Mark for PET/MRI scanner

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare has received the CE Mark for its Biograph mMR hybrid PET/MRI scanner.

May 31, 2011

PET scanner shows early breast cancer

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

European researchers say they have developed a clinical PET system with enhanced resolution and the sensitivity to detect breast cancer in its early stages.

May 19, 2011

PET enables better monitoring of intratumoral changes

By Becky McCall

Growing use of hypofractionation in clinical practice and its link to increased treatment resistance due to tumor cell hypoxia means that it may be beneficial to visualize and quantify hypoxic areas with PET imaging to monitor changes in tumor metabolism during treatment.

May 18, 2011

Dutch OTC study receives top award

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Researchers from the dermatology departments at Roskilde & Gentofte Hospitals in Copenhagen have been awarded gold by the 22nd World Congress of Dermatology for their study on how optical coherence tomography (OCT) can monitor the effectiveness of photodynamic therapy on superficial basal cell carcinomas.

May 17, 2011

GE to sell MPI stress agent in Europe

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

GE Healthcare has signed an agreement with Rapidscan Pharma Solutions to sell that company's pharmacological stress agent for myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) studies in Europe.

May 15, 2011

PET/CT changes status in more than a third of cases

By Rebekah Moan

When the capacity of PET/CT is unlimited, using the modality causes a change in diagnosis, staging, or treatment plan in more than a third of cancer patients, Danish researchers note in the June print edition of European Radiology.

May 12, 2011

PET/CT helps target radiation therapy of NSCLC tumors

By Becky McCall

LONDON - PET/CT prior to radiotherapy can help oncologists target a more powerful dose of radiation to non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), whilst keeping dose low in other areas of the organ, according to research presented at this week's European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology meeting.

May 10, 2011

Naviscan signs Italian distributor

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

PET developer Naviscan has signed a distribution agreement with Tecnologie Avanzate to market and service the company's position emission mammography breast scanner in Italy.

May 2, 2011

IBA buys stake in German PET firm

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiopharmaceutical developer Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has acquired a minority stake in a German provider of PET radiopharmaceuticals founded by imaging pioneer Willi Kalender, PhD.

April 17, 2011

BIR releases molecular radiotherapy report

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The British Institute of Radiology (BIR) has released a report that reviews the status of molecular radiotherapy in the U.K. and provides recommendations to improve its use and effectiveness.

April 14, 2011

OctreoPharm nets financing for PET tracer

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

German nuclear medicine contrast firm OctreoPharm Sciences has completed financing for the clinical development of its SOMscan PET cancer diagnostic agent.

April 13, 2011

Emerging techniques provide answers in head and neck cancer

By Frances Rylands-Monk

VIENNA - Treatment planning and evaluation in head and neck oncology represents a major challenge for the radiologist. But new techniques and protocols are helping to overcome obstacles, and promise much in treatment prediction and early follow-up, delegates discovered at Friday's European Congress of Radiology Special Focus Session.

March 4, 2011

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