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Women in medical physics: The current status

By Tami Freeman, PhD

How well represented are women in the worldwide workforce of medical physicists? The IUPESM World Congress, held last month in Toronto incorporated five main congress themes, one of which was "Women in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics."

July 29, 2015

Guerbet bids to buy Mallinckrodt's contrast business

By Brian Casey

French contrast agent developer Guerbet plans to acquire the contrast media and injector business of U.S. firm Mallinckrodt. The 243.5 million euro deal will double Guerbet's annual revenues, expand its product line, and instantly make the company a major player in the U.S. contrast market.

July 26, 2015

Guerbet bids to buy Mallinckrodt's contrast business

By Brian Casey

French contrast agent developer Guerbet plans to acquire the contrast media and injector business of U.S. firm Mallinckrodt. The $270 million deal will double Guerbet's annual revenues, expand its product line, and instantly make the company a major player in the U.S. contrast market.

July 26, 2015

Blue Earth secures $28M in venture capital

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Blue Earth Diagnostics has received $27.9 million (25.4 million euros) in capital from U.K. venture fund Syncona Partners.

July 22, 2015

Design changes transform potential of PET detectors

By Ian Randall

Two novel PET detector designs offer a significantly improved coincidence time resolution and may help better localize tumors within patients, report researchers from the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento, Italy, and the Swiss-based European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN.

July 8, 2015

Blue Earth gets orphan drug status

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Blue Earth Diagnostics has received two orphan drug designations for its F-18 fluciclovine radiopharmaceutical for diagnosing glioma.

July 7, 2015

Global isotope market could reach $7B by 2020

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Widespread use of radiopharmaceutical isotopes with diagnostic equipment such as PET and SPECT systems could buoy the global nuclear medicine/radiopharmaceutical market to $7 billion by the end of the decade.

July 7, 2015

Florbetaben-PET finds more beta-amyloid plaques

By Wayne Forrest

New research indicates that PET imaging with the radiotracer florbetaben can detect a form of beta-amyloid plaque that develops early in the brain. The findings could possibly lead to the earlier detection of Alzheimer's disease, as well as new clinical indications for florbetaben.

June 24, 2015

SNMMI: FDG-PET/CT predicts ovarian cancer survival

By Wayne Forrest

BALTIMORE - FDG-PET/CT scans can help predict disease progression and overall survival of ovarian cancer patients for as long as several years after treatment, according to a German presentation made on 9 June at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting.

June 10, 2015

SNMMI: Germans scoop Image of the Year award

By Wayne Forrest

BALTIMORE - German research using a PET radiotracer for prostate cancer that can be labeled with different radioisotopes for diagnostic or therapeutic use won the Image of the Year prize at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting.

June 8, 2015

SNMMI: PET prostate image lands Image of the Year honors

By Wayne Forrest

BALTIMORE - A PET radiotracer for prostate cancer that can be labeled with different radioisotopes for both diagnostic and therapeutic use won Image of the Year honors at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting.

June 8, 2015

Analysis finds variance in uptake of amyloid PET tracers

By Wayne Forrest

PET scans can detect varying levels of amyloid in the brain that change with age and the presence of a genotype linked to Alzheimer's disease, according to a Dutch study in the May Journal of the American Medical Association. The findings may enable clinicians to better tailor which patients receive the scans.

May 27, 2015

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