April 2, 2018 – The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced March 29 that it renewed Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ (CNL) Nuclear Research and Test Establishment Operating License for the Chalk River Laboratories (CRL) site.
SPECT Imaging
Single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) imaging is a nuclear imaging technology (also referred to as molecular imaging) that produces images showing how organs work.
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February 8, 2018 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently took steps to ensure a stable and secure supply of a critical radioactive imaging tracer used to detect potentially life-threatening diseases.
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Prem Soman, M.D., director of nuclear cardiology at the Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, and president-elect of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), explained advances in PET and SPECT imaging and the learning curve involved in reading scans from the new CZT...
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Randy Thompson, M.D., attending cardiologist, St. Luke’s Mid-America Heart Institute, Kansas City, explains protocols and what to consider when working with the newer generation CZT-SPECT camera systems for nuclear cardiology.
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David Wolinsky, M.D., director of nuclear cardiology at Cleveland Clinic Florida and past-president of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), discusses advancements in nuclear imaging and some of the issues facing the subspecialty.
A PET/CT head and neck cancer scan.
Feature | Nuclear Imaging | November 05, 2018 | By Sabyasachi Ghosh
“Experimental validation implemented in real-life situations and not theoretical claims exaggerating small...
News | Nuclear Imaging | September 27, 2018
September 27, 2018 — Advancements in healthcare technology, particularly in the surgery category, have led to an...
News | SPECT Imaging | August 27, 2018
August 27, 2018 — In the largest known brain imaging study, scientists from five institutions evaluated 62,454 brain...
Technology | Nuclear Imaging | July 16, 2018
July 16, 2018 — At the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), June 23...
Technology | PET Imaging | June 28, 2018
June 28, 2018 — At the 2018 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting, June 23-26, in...
News | SPECT Imaging | June 21, 2018
June 21, 2018 — The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) has published an update to its 2010 guidelines for...
News | Computed Tomography (CT) | May 21, 2018
May 21, 2018 — The Istituto Oncologico Veneto (IOV) in Padua, Italy, has acquired MILabs’ latest-generation...
The Chalk River nuclear isotope reactor license has been renewed, but will be decommissioned by 2028. The reactor supplies about 50 percent of the world's supply of Tc99m.
Feature | Nuclear Imaging | April 02, 2018 | Dave Fornell
April 2, 2018 – The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced March 29 that it renewed Canadian Nuclear...
Technetium-99m is primarily used for the detection of cancer and to assess perfusion defects in the heart caused by heart attacks or other conditions.
Feature | Radiopharmaceuticals and Tracers | February 08, 2018 | Dave Fornell
February 8, 2018 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently...
Technology | SPECT Imaging | September 15, 2017
September 15, 2017 — Philips highlighted its newest solution for...
Videos | Nuclear Imaging | August 24, 2017
Prem Soman, M.D., director of nuclear cardiology at the Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, and...
Videos | Nuclear Imaging | August 24, 2017
Randy Thompson, M.D., attending cardiologist, St. Luke’s Mid-America Heart Institute, Kansas City, explains...
News | Molecular Imaging | June 09, 2017
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared syngo.via VB20 for Molecular Imaging (MI) from Siemens...
News | SPECT-CT | June 08, 2017
Siemens Healthineers debuts Symbia Intevo Bold at the 2017 annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine &...
Videos | Nuclear Imaging | April 28, 2017
David Wolinsky, M.D., director of nuclear cardiology at Cleveland Clinic Florida and past-president of the American...
News | SPECT Imaging | April 24, 2017
April 24, 2017 — The latest in a series of studies led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine shows that addition...
Representative brain SPECT scans in a patient with Alzheimer's dementia showing substantially reduced brain blood flow in the temporal and parietal lobes compared to a person with depression with mild decreased frontal lobe blood flow. Image courtesy of Amen Clinics.
News | SPECT Imaging | February 22, 2017
February 22, 2017 — Does a patient have depression or a cognitive disorder (CD) such as Alzheimer's disease or both...
News | Nuclear Imaging | December 12, 2016
Molecular Targeting Technologies, Inc. (MTTI) announces that response of colorectal cancer to treatment can be...
News | SPECT Imaging | December 06, 2016
December 6, 2016 — At the 102nd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America...
