A recently developed drug was significantly better at detecting recurring prostate cancer in early stages, in research published in the August 2015 issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. In the study, the imaging agent — Ga-68 prostate-specific membrane antigen (Ga-68 PSMA) — used with positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT), changed management in 44 percent more cases than another widely used agent.

At the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) 2015 Mo-99 Topical Meeting, Novation offered its support of efforts to encourage the adoption of processes to create a reliable domestic supply of non-highly enriched uranium (HEU) molybdenum-99 (Mo-99).

Healthcare imaging specialist Barco announced it has received the 2015 Frost & Sullivan Award for best practices in Visionary Innovation Leadership in the medical imaging displays market. The award comes on the heels of the release of the Coronis Uniti display system in 2014.

A novel radiopharmaceutical probe developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has the potential of providing physicians with information that could save the lives of patients with ischemic stroke or pulmonary embolism. Both conditions are caused when important blood vessels are blocked by a clot that has traveled from another part of the body. In a report that will appear in the October issue of the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology and has been published online, the MGH team describes using this new probe to conduct full-body scans in an animal model. Preliminary results also were reported earlier this year at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society.