Nuclear Imaging

Molecular imaging, also called nuclear imaging, includes positron emission computed tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging. This section includes radiopharmaceuticals and tracersPET-CTSPECT-CT, and PET-MRI

Feature | Cristen C. Bolan

Exposing patients to radiation for diagnostic imaging or radiation therapy is standard medical practice. However, recent ...

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March 29, 2010 - As the applications in nuclear medicine become more widely adopted and a larger part of mainstream ...

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March 26, 2010 - For a patient with heart failure, checking whether the heart could benefit from bypass surgery or a ...

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March 23, 2010 – Frost and Sullivan gave a 2010 North American New Product Innovation Award to Positron Corp. for its ...

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March 19, 2010 - To alleviate the effects of the global molybdenum shortage, a national network of 47 radiopharmacies ...

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March 16, 2010 – Preliminary results from the single-center study suggest that compared to SPECT myocardial perfusion ...

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March 15, 2010 - Researchers released new data from an National Institute of Health (NIH) sponsored, multi-site study of ...

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March 11, 2010 - A new PET/CT (postitron emission tomography/computed tomography) system provides imaging for both the ...

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March 10, 2010 - To help clinicians communicate about radiation dose exposure during radiological procedures, a new dose ...

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March 9, 2010 – As an alternative to the technetium (Tc-99M) isotope used in many nuclear imaging studies, UltraSPECT is ...

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March 8, 2010 – A new U.S. source for the positron emission tomography (PET) agent F18 sodium fluoride is now offered ...

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Feature | Cristen C. Bolan

Linking medical imaging to patient outcomes has long been a struggle for the medical community. But when Columbia ...

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The syngo Dynamic PET software with myocardial blood flow is a cardiac imaging application for the Biograph PET/CT ...

Time February 25, 2010
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February 24, 2010 - The American College of Radiology Task Force on Radiation Dose in Medicine will testify before the ...

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February 23, 2010 - The American College of Radiology (ACR) has launched an online nuclear medicine and positron ...

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February 19, 2010 – The use of medical technology in the United States increased dramatically between 1996 and 2006 ...

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February 17, 2010 — An agreement has been reached to further augment and diversify a manufacturer's supply of molybdenum ...

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February 12, 2010 - After the U.S. FDA announced it is launching a program designed to reduce unnecessary medical ...

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February 9, 2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is starting a program designed to reduce unnecessary ...

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February 9, 2010 - Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging professionals discussed the critical role of molecular imaging ...

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