Industry News | Saturday, February 06 2010
An international study on CT perfusion imaging at 15 medical centers in eight countries, led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, have enrolled the first dozen patients to figure out how well various imaging tests can measure the degree of blockage or narrowing in any particular artery and their use in predicting patients who need catheterization or angioplasty, or bypass surgery.
Clinical Studies | Thursday, February 04 2010
Researchers have used gold nanoparticles as orientation sensors by combining their plasmonic properties with polarization imaging techniques and tracking them using photothermal imaging, according to an article published online Feb. 1 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Clinical Studies | Wednesday, February 03 2010
Astemizole (Hismanal, Janssen Pharmaceutica) and lansoprazole (Prevacid, Novartis), with medical applications in the treatment of allergies and gastrointestinal disorders respectively, can be used as PET radiotracers for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published in the January issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
Clinical Studies | Wednesday, February 03 2010
A malignancy index constructed by using magnetic resonance spectra based on prostate cancer metabolomic profiles obtained from previous intact tissue had an accuracy of 93 to 97 percent for detecting the presence of prostate cancer lesions, according to an article published in the January issue of Science Translational Medicine.
New Products | Tuesday, February 02 2010
UltraSPECT, based in Haifa, Israel, has issued three different dose-reduction protocol recommendations for using its image reconstruction products--Xpress.Cardiac and Xpress3.
Industry News | Tuesday, February 02 2010
Magnetic nanoparticles can selectively remove ovarian cancer cells from human ascites fluid, based on research published online in December in Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine.
Partnerships & Alliances | Tuesday, February 02 2010
Siemens Healthcare has selected LinkMed’s ONCOlog Medical “Dignity Carrier” for preparing patients for PET/CT imaging for special applications.
Industry News | Monday, February 01 2010
Gamma-camera imaging can provide real-time information on the mobility of technetium and was used to confirm that Fe (III)-reducing bacteria immobilized technetium in sediments, based on research published in the January issue of Environmental Science and Technology.
Industry News | Monday, February 01 2010
Scientists at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have received a $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a neuroimaging project to study frontotemporal dementia in patients using PET, MRI and diffusion tensor imaging.
Clinical Studies | Sunday, January 31 2010
Pediatric PET studies of constant image quality can be performed with time or dose savings of as much as 50 percent for the lightest patients (10–20 kg), according to a study published in the February issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Industry News | Friday, January 29 2010
Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Group (B&W TSG) has been awarded $9 million from the National Nuclear Security Administration for the development of reactor technology for medical isotope production using low enriched uranium.