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Technology for life: A career in medical physics
By Giulia Thompson, PhD
Anyone who has supported a friend or loved one through cancer treatment knows that a variety of healthcare professionals are involved. But there are also many scientists and engineers who design, develop, and manufacture the innovative technology that helps people's lives. One medical physicist shares her story.
August 8, 2012
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IBA, Piramal sign deal on F-18 amyloid imaging
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiopharmaceutical provider IBA Molecular and Piramal Imaging have announced an agreement under which IBA will manufacture and distribute F-18 florbetaben, Piramal's new diagnostic imaging agent, in the European and U.S. markets.
August 7, 2012
Combined PET/CT-perfusion brings results in head, neck cancer
By Philip Ward
CT perfusion performed in combined PET/CT scans can provide valuable extra information about tumor behavior, and may help to differentiate between head and neck tumors and inflammatory lesions, Swiss researchers have found.
July 31, 2012
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PET/MR equals PET/CT for lung cancer, with far less radiation
By Wayne Forrest
A pilot study conducted by German researchers and published in the August issue of Radiology suggests that PET/MRI provides diagnostic-quality images for assessing pulmonary masses in lung cancer cases, while cutting radiation dose by 75%.
July 30, 2012
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PiB, FDG-PET change diagnosis for dementia patients
By Wayne Forrest
A new study by Dutch researchers adds evidence that PET imaging with carbon-11-labeled Pittsburgh Compound B (PiB) and FDG can lead to early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and differentiate between specific dementias, especially when previous diagnostic certainty is low.
July 25, 2012
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Frost & Sullivan reports optical imaging trends
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Advances in optical imaging are helping drive the development of novel therapeutics, according to research published by market research firm Frost & Sullivan’s technical insights division.
July 12, 2012
IBA Molecular finds buyer for Canadian site
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiopharmaceutical provider IBA Molecular has found a buyer for a Canadian PET radiopharmacy.
July 5, 2012
Global nuclear medicine market could reach $4.5B
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Varied uses of new technology will drive the global nuclear medicine imaging device market to $4.5 billion by 2022, according to a new study from market research firm Companies and Markets.
July 4, 2012
EVINCI: Noninvasive heart imaging cuts invasive procedures 75%
By Eric Barnes
As many as three-fourths of patients with chest pain could avoid invasive and costly procedures like invasive coronary angiography by undergoing noninvasive imaging tests first, according to investigators at the Evaluation of Integrated Cardiac Imaging (EVINCI) Consortium last week.
July 2, 2012
Philips, Russian institutes team for imaging research
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Royal Philips Electronics, the parent corporation of Philips Healthcare, said it is joining forces in research and development of medical imaging technologies with three Russian research institutes.
June 21, 2012
GE promotes DaTscan study results
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
GE Healthcare is touting the results of a randomized, controlled study that found its contrast agent DaTscan to be useful in SPECT imaging of adult patients with clinically uncertain Parkinsonian syndromes.
June 20, 2012
AuntMinnieEurope.com Molecular Imaging Insider
By Philip Ward
June 17, 2012
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