Nuclear Radiology: Page 75

Simultaneous PET/MRI creates diagnostic-quality images

By Wayne Forrest

Structural, functional, and molecular imaging of patients with brain tumors is feasible with diagnostic imaging quality using simultaneous hybrid PET/MR image acquisition, according to a study in the August issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

August 2, 2010

Myocardial echo bests SPECT in assessing hibernating myocardium

By Erik L. Ridley

Myocardial contrast echocardiography can outperform SPECT for assessing hibernating myocardium in ischemic cardiomyopathy, London researchers report in the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography.

July 25, 2010

Dutch regulators OK Petten restart

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiopharmaceutical producer Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group has received approval from Dutch regulators to resume service at its High Flux Reactor in Petten, the Netherlands.

July 20, 2010

Radioactive microspheres help some with colorectal cancer metastases

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 9 - When metastatic colorectal cancer is confined to the liver, hepatic arterial injection of yttrium-90 resin microspheres can significantly improve response rates, Belgian researchers report.

July 8, 2010

PET/CT beats CT in NSCLC staging, but both have limitations

By Wayne Forrest

While no imaging or invasive procedure is foolproof for staging non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Danish researchers have found that PET/CT is more accurate than CT alone, though both modalities had a tendency to understage and overstage the cancer.

July 1, 2010

MDS Nordion, Guerbet to develop PET agents

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

MDS Nordion has entered into a collaboration to develop new PET radiotracers for cancer diagnostics.

June 23, 2010

Covidien sees good Tc-99m supply in June

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

With the BR2 nuclear reactor in Belgium back online, healthcare technology firm Covidien is predicting more reliable supplies of technetium-99m (Tc-99m) for the rest of June.

June 10, 2010

F-18 NaF PET/CT can help with atherosclerotic plaque detection

By Wayne Forrest

German researchers have found that F-18 sodium fluoride (F-18 NaF) PET/CT may provide "relevant information about the morphologic and functional properties of calcified plaque," according to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

June 10, 2010

PETNet builds network

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare subsidiary PETNet Solutions has expanded its PET radiopharmaceutical network.

June 6, 2010

PET/CT may improve therapy for congestive heart failure patients

By Wayne Forrest

SALT LAKE CITY - German researchers have found that FDG-PET/CT can help determine when cardiac resynchronization therapy is ineffective, and it can identify risk factors that could alter the course of treatment for patients with congestive heart failure, according to a study presented Sunday at the SNM meeting.

June 6, 2010

Physicists, medical researchers to team up on cancer

By Reuters Health

GENEVA (Reuters), Jun 4 - Particle physicists and medical scientists are to combine efforts to develop early detection techniques and advanced treatments for cancer as spin-offs from research into the origins and makeup of the universe.

June 3, 2010

MILabs, TU Delft develop preclinical PET/SPECT

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

MILabs has partnered with Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands to combine PET and SPECT biomedical imaging techniques on one device.

May 27, 2010

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