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Texas Children's Hospital Offers PET/MRI Scanner to Better Diagnose Several Childhood Diseases

Texas Children's Hospital is the first children's hospital in the United States to begin using a positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI) scanner, a state-of-the-art technology that will help in early a...

Chalk River Labs
Chalk River Isotope Reactor Plans 30-Day Shutdown April 14

Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) will commence a 30-day planned shutdown for inspection and maintenance of the National Research Universal (NRU) reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, starting April 14, 2013. This planned shutdown, which AECL has...

FDA Approves Navidea’s Lymphoseek Tc 99m Tracer for Use in Lymphatic Mapping

Navidea Biopharmaceuticals Inc. announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of Lymphoseek (technetium Tc 99m tilmanocept) Injection, a novel product indicated for use in lymphatic mapping procedures to assist in the localization of...

Gamma Medica’s LumaGEM Breast Imaging Business Acquired by Psilos Group

The LumaGEM Molecular Breast Imaging (MBI) business of Gamma Medica Inc. has been acquired through a chapter 11 sale by Imaging Acquisition Inc., an entity controlled by healthcare growth equity firm Psilos Group Managers LLC. Molecular breast ima...

MiE's PET Scintron Receives FDA Approval
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted 510(k) clearance to Medical Imaging Electronics (MiE) and Nuclear Imaging Services (NIS) ECAT Scintron. It...
Positron Corp PosiRx 3000-Series Pharmacy Automation Systems
Positron Introduces Next Generation PosiRx Pharmacy...
Positron Corporation announced the release of the PosiRx 3000-Series, its latest pharmacy automation systems. The PosiRx 3000-Series are the first systems to...
Three Key Questions on Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging for...
ECRI Institute released a report listing three key questions and the answers concerning breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI; sometimes referred to as molecular...
American Society of Nuclear Cardiology Testified at U.S....
The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) testified at a U.S. House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing that examined options for...
MiE's PET Scintron Receives FDA Approval
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted 510(k) clearance to Medical Imaging Electronics (MiE) and Nuclear Imaging Services (NIS
Next Generation PosiRx Pharmacy Automation Systems
The PosiRx 3000-Series is Positron Corporation's latest pharmacy automation systems. The PosiRx 3000-Series are the first systems to...
In March, RaySearch Laboratories AB announced that version 3.5 of RaySearch's RayStation treatment planning system had been released for...
Olympus announced the company's ultrasound endoscopes will now be powered by the ProSound F75 Ultrasound Processor. The ProSound F75...
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prostate cancer
Fully Integrated MRI and PET Imaging
Creating the world’s first and only simultaneous whole-body positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance (PET/MR) scanner was no small feat for Siemens...
PET Imaging
Why PET Will Beat SPECT in the Next Decade
The next generation of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agents will herald an age when PET will eclipse single photon emission computed tomography (...
Texas Children's Hospital Offers PET/MRI Scanner to...
Texas Children's Hospital is the first children's hospital in the United States to begin using a positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance...
FDA to Review Piramal Imaging 18F Agent for Visual...
Piramal Imaging SA, a division of Piramal Enterprises, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) have...

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An Emerging Trend — Patient Satisfaction
Saving lives is no longer enough. Patients need to be satisfied. You might thank the recession for...
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The New Age of Personalized Medicine
We are seeing a semantic shift in medicine, one that is redefining personalized medicine from pie...
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MR “Fingerprinting” Promises Quick Screen for Disease
Only one radiological modality – mammography – is used today for screening. Yet, as America...
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Don’t Miss The Next LIVE Webinar! An Introduction To Cloud-Based Medical Image Exchange
  Seats are limited, register today Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT Interested in implementing cloud-based imaging solutions? As a first step, please join DICOM Grid’s Live...
Bedside Radiography-Into the Digital Age
Chip Truwit, MD, offers an overview of Bedside Radiography from a clinical perspective. He will review current radiographic challenges and their effects on bedside imaging, highlighting how new...
Iterative Reconstruction in CT: Understanding and Implementation
Radiation exposure from multidetector CT (MDCT) has become a pressing public health concern in both lay and medical publications. Implementation of iterative reconstruction offers radiologists the...