Digirad (Poway, CA) received clearance from the FDA for expanded indications for the company's ergo imaging system. These include lymphatic scintigraphy and parathyroid scintigraphy, for help assessing lesions in the breast and other small parts of...
Last week the American Medical Isotopes Production Act of 2011 (AMIPA) finally became law, and America is planning on curtailing the use and export of highly enriched uranium (HEU) for the production of medical isotopes.
Coinciding with...
Combination PET/MR scanners are a hot thing in oncology these days, providing a functional view of a tumor while locating it within the body, something that normally had to be done using a PET/CT or separately first in a PET scanner and then an MRI....
Philips has added a bunch of nuclear medicine applications to its IntelliSpace Portal, a system that provides clinicians powerful imaging analysis and visualization tools through just about any common computing device like a PC or tablet.
The...
The radioisotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) is a source for the commonly used radiomarker technetium-99m applicable in cancer diagnostics and life science research, but it's in short supply and there are no American manufacturers of the material....
GE Healthcare received FDA clearance for its Q.Freeze motion correction technology that combines multiple PET/CT images from different points in the patient's respiratory cycle to create a composite high resolution image.
This is accomplished...
It is estimated that Alzheimer’s disease will affect 100 million people by 2050, but currently doctors rely on family history and intellectual tests to diagnose patients. Using these current methods, about 20% of patients diagnosed with AD are...
Siemens' Biograph mCT, a positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scanner which was introduced at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago a few months ago, has now received FDA 510k...
Digirad received the European CE Mark of approval for its Cardius X-ACT solid state SPECT imager. It features low dose volume CT attenuation correction, 3D-OSEM reconstruction and upright imaging capability.
The company already has approval from...
GE Healthcare received FDA clearance for the Brivo NM615 nuclear medicine scanner with SPECT capability. This is a budget-oriented single head system that approaches the performance of a dual head and allows for lower doses of injected...
Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a way to coat an iron-based contrast agent so it interacts preferentially with acidic environments in the body such as areas of tumor formation or inflammation. The technology may lead to...