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AC Immune to test potential PET tracer for Parkinson's

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swiss biopharmaceutical company AC Immune will conduct a clinical trial in the second half of 2018 to evaluate the viability of a new PET tracer for Parkinson's disease.

March 15, 2018

PET/MRI falls short in lymph node metastases analysis

By Wayne Forrest

While the combination of PET and MRI has shown promise for detecting and characterizing some forms of cancer, the hybrid modality does not match the accuracy of invasive sentinel lymph node biopsy in melanoma patients, according to a study presented at ECR 2018 in Vienna.

March 15, 2018

Hybrid gamma camera enhances intraoperative imaging

By Tami Freeman, PhD

Use of a gamma camera to image sentinel lymph nodes during cancer surgery can help the surgeon assess the extent of cancer spread. Portable gamma camera systems for this application are already commercially available, but determining the spatial location of the recorded signal remains difficult.

March 14, 2018

New treatment strategies give hope to patients with MSK tumors

By Katharina Miedzinska

In today's Special Focus Session, experts provided an update on imaging modalities, treatment strategies, and therapy monitoring in patients with musculoskeletal (MSK) tumors, aiming to raise awareness of how multimodality imaging can influence therapeutic balancing between tumor control and quality of life.

March 3, 2018

Video from ECR 2018: Thomas Beyer on hybrid imaging

VIENNA - The successful clinical implementation of hybrid imaging in Europe still appears to be a long way off. Major challenges remain, particularly in terms of training and education and also the availability of equipment. Thomas Beyer, PhD, MBA, professor of physics of medical imaging at the Medical University of Vienna, speaks about an extensive new survey that sheds light on the issues to be resolved.

March 2, 2018

Extremity PET/CT scans unnecessary for melanoma patients

By Wayne Forrest

VIENNA - To save time and spare melanoma patients from additional radiation exposure, researchers are recommending that clinicians bypass imaging upper and lower extremities in whole-body FDG-PET/CT scans. The findings were presented on Thursday at ECR 2018.

March 1, 2018

NICE endorses PET/CT for pancreatic cancer detection

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is recommending the use of PET/CT to hasten the early diagnosis of suspected pancreatic cancer.

February 8, 2018

The changing landscape of cancer therapy

By Manjit Dosanjh

Following decades of development in particle physics labs, the use of beams of protons or ions to kill tumors is beginning to transform the global cancer therapy scene. In addition, advanced imaging and detection technologies for high-energy physics research -- many being driven by CERN and the physics community -- are needed.

February 7, 2018

BIR launches new open-access journal

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The British Institute of Radiology (BIR) has launched a new open-access journal, BJR|Open.

February 6, 2018

ImaginAb appoints new COO

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Imaging agent developer ImaginAb appointed Ian Wilson as its new chief operating officer (COO).

February 5, 2018

MILabs places multimodality system in Denmark

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Dutch molecular imaging developer MILabs has installed its PET/SPECT/ultrahigh-resolution CT system at the University of Copenhagen Center for Translational Neuromedicine.

February 4, 2018

AuntMinnieEurope.com Molecular Imaging Insider

By Wayne Forrest

January 22, 2018

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