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Nuclear Medicine Bone Scan Study Identifies Prevalence and Outcomes of Cardiac Amyloidosis
January 5, 2023 — A new study has determined that approximately three percent of all bone scan patients have markers of cardiac amyloidosis, which can lead to…
New ASNC-led Guideline Details How to Use CT in Hybrid Nuclear-CT Cardiac Imaging
September 7, 2022 — The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and three partner societies have come together to answer cardiac imagers’ questions…
Revolutionary Technology Shortens Cardiac Scan Time, Provides High-quality SPECT Images
June 15, 2022 — A cardiac SPECT imaging system performs scans 10 to 100 times faster than current SPECT systems, according to new…
SNMMI Image of the Year: New Biomarker Predicts Severity of Cardiac Remodeling After Heart Attack
June 15, 2022 — Poor functional outcomes after a heart attack can be predicted with a new PET imaging agent, 68Ga-FAPI-46
Virtual CT Scans Cut Patient Radiation Exposure in Half During PET/CT Studies
June 14, 2022 — A novel artificial intelligence method can be used to generate high-quality “PET/CT” images and subsequently decrease…

Summary of the pilot study and preliminary PET imaging findings. Image created by R Wetherill, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

PET Imaging Shows Greater Lung Inflammation in e-cigarette Users than Cigarette Smokers

January 31, 2023 — Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) users have greater lung inflammation than cigarette smokers and ...

January 31, 2023

Summary of imaging findings from the SEER-Medicare linked database for patients with non-small cell lung cancer prior to receiving subsequent radiation therapy. Image created by Emily Sterbis, MD, Interventional Radiology Resident at the University of Colorado

News | Lung Imaging

Nearly Half of Medicare Patients with Non-small Cell Lung Cancer not Staged According to National Guidelines

January 23, 2023 — A study published in the January issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine reports that approximately ...

January 23, 2023

This figure highlights 3 patients with a final diagnosis of low-grade uptake (Perugini grade-1). Endomyocardial biopsy results were available for the patient depicted in Panel B demonstrating ATTR-CA as the underlying pathology.

News | Molecular Imaging

Nuclear Medicine Bone Scan Study Identifies Prevalence and Outcomes of Cardiac Amyloidosis

January 5, 2023 — A new study has determined that approximately three percent of all bone scan patients have markers of ...

January 04, 2023

18F-SMBT-1 PET studies showed that beta-amyloid+ Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients, but most importantly, beta-amyloid+ controls (CN) have significantly higher regional 18F-SMBT-1 binding than beta-amyloid- CN, with 18F-SMBT-1 retention highly associated with beta-amyloid burden. These findings suggest that increased 18F-SMBT-1 binding is detectable at the preclinical stages of beta-amyloid accumulation.

News | PET Imaging

Novel PET Imaging Agent Detects Earliest Signs of Alzheimer's Disease

October 20, 2022 — A new highly selective PET imaging agent can detect the presence of overexpressed monoamine oxidase-B ...

October 20, 2022

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has been named a Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Center of Excellence (RTCoE) by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), a distinction held by only 17 centers in the U.S.

News | Radiology Business

Hoag Named Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Center of Excellence, Publishes Results of Breast and Prostate Cancer Trials

September 8, 2022 — Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has been named a Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Center of ...

September 08, 2022

Patients with detectable PSA (0.2-2.0 ng/mL) post-prostatectomy considered for salvage radiotherapy undergoing 18F-DCFPyl PSMA PET/CT staging. Image created by M.Ng et al, GenesisCare, Melbourne, Australia.

News | Prostate Cancer

New Research Shows PSMA PET/CT Imaging Changes Management for Close to 50% of Prostate Cancer Patients

September 8, 2022 — In prostate cancer patients experiencing recurrence following a radical prostatectomy, imaging with ...

September 08, 2022

Societies Outline Recommendations for Hardware and Software, Training, Competency, Cross-specialty Collaboration, More

News | SPECT-CT

New ASNC-led Guideline Details How to Use CT in Hybrid Nuclear-CT Cardiac Imaging

September 7, 2022 — The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and three partner societies have come together to ...

September 07, 2022

News | SNMMI

Crosby Elected Vice Chair of Patient Advocacy Advisory Board for the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

August 16, 2022 — Mike Crosby of San Diego, California, has been elected to a two-year term as vice chair of the Patient ...

August 16, 2022

News | PET-CT

Aetna Reverses Cardiac PET/CT Non-coverage Policy

July 11, 2022 – The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular ...

July 11, 2022

News | SNMMI

Andrei Iagaru, MD, FACNM, Receives Inaugural SNMMI Sam Gambhir Trailblazer Award

June 22, 2022 — Andrei Iagaru, MD, FACNM, professor of radiology (nuclear medicine) and chief of the Division of Nuclear ...

June 22, 2022

News | SNMMI

Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Announces 2022 Fellows

June 22, 2022 — The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging recognized 15 new SNMMI Fellows on Monday, June 13 ...

June 22, 2022

News | PET Imaging

Markus Schwaiger, MD, receives SNMMI Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award

June 21, 2022 — Markus Schwaiger, MD, a scientist known for his contributions to cardiac PET imaging, has been named as ...

June 21, 2022

SNMMI announces Krystle W. Glasgow, MIS, CNMT, NMTCB(CT), NMAA, FSNMMI-TS, as president of the Technologist Section during 2022 Annual Meeting. Image Courtesy of SNMMI

News | SNMMI

SNMMI Announces President of the Technologist Section During 2022 Annual Meeting

June 21, 2022 — Krystle W. Glasgow, MIS, CNMT, NMTCB(CT), NMAA, FSNMMI-TS, instructor and clinical coordinator at the ...

June 20, 2022

News | SNMMI

SNMMI elects Cathy Sue Cutler, PhD, FSNMMI, as Vice President-Elect at 2022 Annual Meeting

June 16, 2022 — Cathy Sue Cutler, PhD, FSNMMI, director of the medical isotope research and production program at ...

June 16, 2022

System geometry, imaging mechanism, and performance evaluation of a self-collimating SPECT for fast dynamic cardiac imaging

News | SPECT Imaging

Revolutionary Technology Shortens Cardiac Scan Time, Provides High-quality SPECT Images

June 15, 2022 — A cardiac SPECT imaging system performs scans 10 to 100 times faster than current SPECT systems ...

June 15, 2022

Representative case with acute anterior wall myocardial infarction: Myocardial perfusion images using 99mTc-tetrofosmin at rest (first row), 68Ga-FAPI-46 PET (second row), late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) from cardiac magnetic resonance (third row) and schematic drawings of the left ventricle (fourth row). Area of fibroblast activation exceeds infarct area and LGE signal, most common type of myocardial FAP-distribution. Bottom left: Mean areas of perfusion defect, FAPI-signal and LGE of 35 studied patients

News | PET Imaging

SNMMI Image of the Year: New Biomarker Predicts Severity of Cardiac Remodeling After Heart Attack

June 15, 2022 — Poor functional outcomes after a heart attack can be predicted with a new PET imaging agent, 68Ga-FAPI ...

June 15, 2022

Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) perfusion images for two representative patients. Both patients had similar demographic characteristics. Neither patient had significant perfusion abnormalities as shown in the figure. Patient A had mild sleep apnea while patient B had severe obstructive sleep apnea. The corrected myocardial flow reserve (MFR) for patient A was normal at 3.24 while for patient B it was severely abnormal at 1.22.

News | PET Imaging

PET Imaging Confirms Link Between Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Heart Blood Flow Impairment

June 15, 2022 — Patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are less able to increase blood flow to the heart ...

June 15, 2022

News | SNMMI

SNMMI Names Helen Nadel, MD, FRCPC, as President-Elect at 2022 Annual Meeting

June 15, 2022 — Helen Nadel, MD, FRCPC, director of pediatric nuclear medicine at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at ...

June 15, 2022

Heat maps of PSMA PET prostatic fossa recurrence in patients with recurrence limited to the prostate fossa (miTr N0 M0, n=127), pelvic nodal disease (miTr N1 M0, n=30), distant organs/extra-pelvic nodal disease (miTr N0 M1, n=32) and pelvic nodal plus distant organs/extra-pelvic nodal disease (miTr N1 M1, n=37). The yellow contour represents the RTOG CTV

News | Prostate Cancer

PSMA PET Highlights Need for Updated Prostate Cancer Therapy Guidelines

June 15, 2022 — Current guidelines used to plan salvage radiation treatments in patients with local recurrence of ...

June 15, 2022

Representative axial image from a test set imaging study. From top left to bottom right: CT (A), NAC-PET (B), original AC-PET (C), AI-generated AC-PET (D). The blue arrow indicates one lesion that was observed in both images, and the red arrow indicates a lesion that was missed (i.e., not de-tected by expert nuclear medicine physicians) in AI image. NAC = Non-Attenuation Corrected. AC = Attenuation-Corrected

News | PET-CT

Virtual CT Scans Cut Patient Radiation Exposure in Half During PET/CT Studies

June 14, 2022 — A novel artificial intelligence method can be used to generate high-quality “PET/CT” images and ...

June 14, 2022