June 16, 2009 - Michael Reitermann will become the new CEO of Siemens Healthcare, U.S. organization, responsible for sales, marketing, service and logistics across the Siemens Healthcare portfolio, including medical imaigng equipment, healthcare information technology and medical therapy effective July 1, 2009.
June 12, 2009 – Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany, has completed its first global Phase II study analyzing the sensitivity and specificity of BAY 94-9172 (AV1/ZK) using positron emission tomography (PET) in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease compared to healthy volunteers.
June 16, 2009 – MILabs introduced at the Annual SNM meeting its novel U-SPECT/CT system, a Micro-SPECT system that is fully integrated with the MILabs high-throughput, low dose U-CT. The company also announced it has already contracted to install two U-SPECT/CT systems.
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June 16, 2009 - MDS Nordion, a leading global provider of medical isotopes and radiopharmaceuticals used in molecular medicine, and the Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry in Moscow, Russia, have agreed to study the feasibility of the Karpov Institute providing the company with a flexible, reliable and responsive medical-isotope supplier of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) for the global nuclear medicine
June 16, 2009 - Numa, a nuclear medicine connectivity and system integration company, debuted at the SNM 2009 annual conference NumaManage, a new patient scheduling and workflow manager for a Nuclear Medicine or PET/CT department designed to streamline the workflow and schedule management of a molecular imaging department.
June 16, 2009 - President Barack Obama asked for physicians to help in his plans for healthcare reform during the American Medical Association's 158th annual meeting Monday in Chicago.
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June 16, 2009 - In response to the molybdenum 99 (Mo-99) supply shortage, Covidien sent out a letter to its customers informing them of the anticipated Covidien generator and unit dose (UD) Tc 99m supply to the overall U.S., Canadian and Latin American markets through August 2009.
June 16, 2009 - PETNET Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., said it is prepared to increase production and availability of 18F Sodium Fluoride (NaF) to replace Technetium for MDP bone scans to help offset shortages of molybdenum, which can result in limited availability of 99mTc-labeled radiopharmaceuticals.
June 16, 2009 - The SNM 2009 Image of the Year is an image depicting how radioimmunotherapy can successfully treat a potentially fatal type of lymphoma, which was presented at SNM’s 56th Annual Meeting June 13–17, 2009, in Toronto.
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As Discovery PET/CT 600 series continues to expand, GE Healthcare introduced the Discovery PET/CT 690 – a molecular imaging tool designed go beyond the needs of the clinical practice and provide the necessary tools and technologies to explore the future of PET/CT imaging.
June 16, 2009 - Royal Philips Electronics showed at the 2009 SNM Annual Conference its new BrightView X, a scalable SPECT camera that can be easily upgraded with CT when physicians are ready for the full capabilities of BrightView XCT, a nuclear medicine workstation and the third-generation time-of-flight PET.
June 15, 2009 - FluoroPharma Inc. will present phase I data relating to the safety, dosimetry, and pharmacokinetics in human subjects of BFPET, its novel 18-F labeled PET radiotracer for myocardial perfusion imaging, at the Society of Nuclear Medicine 2009 Annual Meeting in Toronto.
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June 15, 2009 - Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. today said it finalized an arrangement with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) to receive the nuclear imaging radiotracer component molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) produced from low-enriched uranium (LEU) targets in ANSTO’s new OPAL reactor.
June 13, 2009 - Lantheus will be the first company to be able to offer Technetium-99 (Tc99m) derived from LEU to the U.S. market.
June 12, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare announced the launch of its newest version of Inveon Research Workplace, IRW 3.0, at the 2009 SNM Annual Meeting held June 14-16 in Toronto. This new software provides Inveon users with an expanded set of tools for image visualization and data analysis, and new solutions for important applications in cardiac PET imaging.
June 12, 2009 - Enlargement and abnormalities of axillary sentinel lymph nodes located in the armpit area near the breast are predictive of cancer, according to initial research conducted at University of Florida Shands Cancer Center and published in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
June 12, 2009 - With the Chalk River* nuclear reactor in Laurentian Hills, Ontario, Canada, shutdown, a reactor that supplies one-third** of the nuclear isotopes to the world, it was very timely when Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper welcomed the SNM annual meeting to Toronto, Canada, emphasizing the importance of molecular imaging to the future practice of medicine.
June 12, 2009 - NanoScan Imaging LLC today announced the publication of new data demonstrating the use of its investigational, radio-opaque contrast agent (N1177) to visualize vulnerable plaques that can cause heart attack or stroke using advanced, noninvasive and high-resolution computed tomography (CT) techniques.
June 12, 2009 - PhotoDetection Systems will showcase the NeuroPET scanner, designed to serve the clinical and research needs of the molecular neuro-imaging community at the SNM Annual Meeting Toronto, Canada, June 13-16, 2009, in booth 717.
June 12, 2009 – Medi/Nuclear to display product kits, which are companion product to its Radioaerosol Lung Imaging Systems, for use with ventilators at SNM at booth 1220.