Capital Health, a hospital network based in New Jersey, has inked a contract with GE Healthcare to install GE's Discovery NM 750b at Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell in Pennington, N.J.
18F-flutemetamol PET imaging demonstrates strong concordance with histopathology irrespective of timing and sequence of exams in prospective and retrospective settings, and shows promise as a valuable tool to study and possibly facilitate diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, both in patients with suspected normal pressure hydrocephalus, and among the wider population, according to a pooled analysis of four studies presented at the 2012 Human Amyloid Imaging (HAI) conference in Miami, Fla.
Bioscan, a developer of preclinical imaging systems, has established a subsidiary in Dijon, France, Bioscan Molecular Imaging France.
Two healthcare organizations in Grenoble, France, are using LabLogic’s Laura radio-chromatography system and instrumentation.
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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has named Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City as a Center for Quantitative Imaging Excellence for its research in cancer screening, treatment and follow-up care, specifically with modalities such as mammography, PET, CT and MRI.
The University of South Florida (USF) has opened the Center for Memory C.A.R.E. (Clinical Assessment, Research and Education), on the second floor of the six-story USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute, to support patients and their caregivers.
Molecular imaging company Positron has signed a letter of intent to buy Manhattan Isotope Technology (MIT), a strontium-82 (SR-82) product specialist, for an undisclosed amount.
Radiologists’ recommendations for follow-up imaging generated 5.3 percent of chest and abdominal CT, brain and lumbar spine MRI and body PET exams, with pulmonary nodule evaluation identified as the most common cause for follow-up imaging, according to a study published online Nov. 15 in Radiology.
PETNET Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Medical Solutions USA, has entered into a commercial agreement with Eli Lilly that grants Siemens PETNET the right to manufacture and distribute Lilly’s molecular imaging agent that is currently under review by the FDA for PET imaging.
ImaginAb has been awarded $2.3 million in funding from the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Small Business Innovation Research program to help further develop diagnostic imaging agents for PET.
Bracco Diagnostics has sent its customers an update regarding its voluntary recall of the CardioGen-82 rubidium generator. The company indicated that user error, a higher than expected strontium breakthrough, or a combination of both factors likely accounted for the triggering of gamma ray emission sensors by two patients crossing the U.S. border in July.
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto will open the doors to its new Research Imaging Centre, where PET, MRI and genetic imaging will be focused on the study of addictions and mental illness.
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.
GE Healthcare has formed a manufacturing agreement with Advanced Accelerator Applications, a pharmaceutical company based in Milan, Italy, and focused on molecular nuclear medicine.
Family history of Alzheimer disease (AD) is associated with several age-related changes that appear to influence AD biomarker abnormalities beyond the increased risk of the APOE4 gene, according to a report published in the October issue of Archives of Neurology. Previously, researchers suspected that AD has a lengthy preclinical period prior to the development of symptoms, in which cerebral lesions accumulate.
Positive findings at preoperative PET in the mediastinum appear to have prognostic implications for non-small-cell lung cancer despite histologically negative mediastinal lymph nodes, according to a single-center study published in the October issue of Radiology.
Infinitt North America, a developer of image and information management technologies for healthcare, has received FDA clearance for its fusion software, Xelis Fusion. The software is now available to the North American market.
DENVER—As important players within the medical community work to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from medical imaging, integrating protocols and strategies, such as shielding, can help reduce dose, James A. Case, PhD, of Cardiovascular Imaging Technologies in Kansas City, said during a presentation Sept. 9 at the 16th annual American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) meeting.
McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, has unveiled its newly expanded Nuclear Research Building, which includes a new cyclotron facility and improvements to the McMaster Nuclear Reactor (MNR) Building.
The American College of Radiology (ACR) is seeking to clarify the Joint Commission's Sentinel Event Alert, related to radiation-based imaging.
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