Naviscan PET scanners performing positron emission mammography (PEM) have been installed in two European centers: Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Medica in Istanbul, Turkey.

Two healthcare organizations in Grenoble, France, are using LabLogic’s Laura radio-chromatography system and instrumentation.

University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has installed a PET scanner, the breast application for which is positron emission mammography (PEM), which will be used both for clinical patients as well as for research focused on lowering radiation dose and novel radiotracers.

Royal Philips Electronics and the VU University Medical Center Amsterdam have signed an agreement to install one of Philips’ Ingenuity Time-of-Flight (TF) PET/MR scanners at the center.

Provision Healthcare has signed an agreement with Ion Beam Applications (IBA) for the purchase, installation and maintenance of a new proton therapy system at Tennessee’s first proton beam cancer center, located in Knoxville.

Infinitt North American and Premier healthcare alliance have signed a national agreement.

Scripps Proton Therapy Center in San Diego has started the installation of the region’s first cyclotron, which delivers proton therapy.

Philips Healthcare is combining its Ambient Experience with its Gemini TF Big Bore PET/CT at Sparks Regional Medical Center, an Arkansas hospital serving more than 350,000 in the Fort Smith area.

The National Institute of Cancer, a Mexican oncologic center, is the first in the country to offer positron emission mammography (PEM), which is a breast application of Naviscan's PET scanner that shows the location as well as the metabolic phase of a lesion.

The UK’s first Biograph mMR, a hybrid molecular MR system from Siemens Healthcare, has been delivered to the University College Hospital (UCH) Macmillan Cancer Centre in London.

In designing a new imaging facility, Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging (CAMI), Thomas J. Meade, PhD, professor of cancer research, chemistry, molecular biosciences, neurobiology & physiology and radiology at Chicago's Northwestern University, aimed to create a place for researchers and the public to view research being done at the university, through advanced visualization technologies.

The first U.S. installation of a newly designed, single-room Proton Therapy technology from IBA (Ion Beam Applications) will be at a proton facility being developed by Willis-Knighton Cancer Center in Shreveport, La.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center has begun imaging patients on a whole-body simultaneous PET and MRI device (Siemens Healthcare, Biograph mMR) as a new weapon in its arsenal to diagnose and treat traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder among military service members and civilians.

Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital has selected GE Healthcare’s tri-modality imaging solution—PET/CT + MR.

Bremen Central, a German private radiology practice offering MRI, nuclear medicine and PET/CT, has ordered a Siemens Biograph mMR.

Methodist Hospital Research Institute (MHRI) in Houston is partnering with Philips Healthcare to build a multi-modality suite capable of imaging highly infectious patients in a contained, quarantine-like environment.

University Hospital Zurich has installed the Ziostation supercomputing functional analytics system from Ziosoft.

Interoperability and imaging IT company Merge Healthcare has locked an installation contract for its iConnect software at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

Porter Hospital in Valparaiso, Ind., has purchased Merge’s iConnect image interoperability platform.

The University of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla., has completed installation of ABT Molecular Imaging's Biomarker Generator at the College of Pharmacy, enabling researchers at the university to have local access to PET radioisotopes.