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FDG-PET brain imaging has shown that cocaine abusers may retain some ability to inhibit craving which may be therapeutically beneficial in addiction, according to research published online Nov. 18 in NeuroImage.
Researchers from sensL and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have jointly developed an open-source PET program, compatible with a variety of detectors, which will be freely available to professionals and organizations within the medical imaging field.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has entered a cooperative agreement with Michigan State University (MSU) to provide financial assistance to design and establish the university's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science will send $124 million to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for capital investments and upgrades as part of its $1.6 billion allotment under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Scientists from U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed new radio frequency identification (RFID) technology that monitors the environmental and physical conditions of nuclear material containers in storage and transportation.
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The Center for Nanoscale Materials at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., has dedicated a new microscopy building, which will house a scanning probe microscope that measures spin-polarized electrons on surfaces.
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., and the University of Chicago's Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using titanium dioxide nanoparticles bound to biological material. The nano-bio technology may eventually provide an alternative form of therapy that targets only cancer cells and does not affect normal tissue.
Oncologists often have to wait months before they can determine whether a treatment is working—utilizing PET/CT, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have shown that they can determine after a single cycle of chemotherapy whether cytotoxic drugs are killing the cancer or not.
High-energy physicists at CERN in Geneva are making production runs that integrate their existing pool of distributed computers with dynamic resources in "science clouds," according to work presented at the 17th annual conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, held in Prague, Czech Republic, this week.
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich., to design and establish the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a research facility to advance understanding of nuclear isotopes and the evolution of the cosmos.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.