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Society of Nuclear Medicine issues Medical Isotope Communiqué
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jun 16 - Monday, the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), together in partnership with a variety of key stake holders, issued a Medical Isotope Communiqué, with the goal of solving the medical isotope crisis.
June 15, 2009
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Canada cites dangers in abandoned isotope reactors as major reactor remains down
By Reuters Health
OTTAWA (Reuters), Jun 16 - One of the reasons Canada abandoned a project last year to build new reactors to produce medical isotopes was the risk they could not be shut down if something went wrong, Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt said on Friday.
June 15, 2009
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MDS, Karpov Institute to study Mo-99 supply
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
MDS Nordion and the Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry have agreed to study the feasibility of the institute providing the firm with a supply of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) for the global nuclear medicine market.
June 14, 2009
Hybrid coronary CTA, SPECT offer less radiation, shorter scan time
By Wayne Forrest
TORONTO - Swiss researchers have developed a hybrid cardiac imaging method that combines coronary CT angiography (CTA) with SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging to predict relevant coronary lesions with considerably less radiation dose and scanning time.
June 14, 2009
Aposense teams with GlaxoSmithKline
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Molecular imaging and therapy developer Aposense is collaborating with pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline to evaluate the potential of Aposense's ML-10 PET tracer in monitoring drug activity in clinical studies of cancer therapies.
June 7, 2009
IBA inks pact with BV Cyclotron
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Ion Beam Applications (IBA) and BV Cyclotron will collaborate on the production and distribution of fluorine-18-labeled radiopharmaceuticals used in PET imaging.
May 31, 2009
ART nets German order
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Optical molecular imaging developer ART Advanced Research Technologies has received an order from the University Medical Center Göttingen in Germany for its SoftScan breast imaging system.
May 19, 2009
Study: Western European PET scans up 21%
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
An estimated 663,000 patient studies were performed using PET in Western Europe in 2008, reflecting a 21% increase from the 546,000 patient studies conducted in 2007, according to a new study.
April 16, 2009
Siemens wins U.K. install
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has won a contract to outfit a new acute care hospital in the U.K. with medical imaging equipment.
April 15, 2009
GE inks deal with Brigham and Women's
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has inked a long-term PET research agreement with Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston.
April 13, 2009
Gated SPECT best indicator for cardiac events
By Wayne Forrest
Myocardial perfusion abnormalities obtained after stress, as well as the extent of scar tissue detected by gated SPECT, are the best predictors of cardiac events in patients with suspected or known ischemic heart disease, according to a new Italian study.
April 12, 2009
Brown adipose tissue physiologically active in adults
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Apr 9 - Contrary to what many people have thought, brown adipose tissue appears to be physiologically active in adult humans, according to the results of three studies reported in the New England Journal of Medicine for April 9.
April 8, 2009
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