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Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands launched the Gemini LXL, a new PET/CT scanner, and DoseAware, a new dose-reducing solution for interventional procedures at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2010 this week in Vienna.
Positron, a molecular imaging solutions company focused on nuclear cardiology, has sold its Attrius PET scanner to Ochsner Health System of Louisiana.
Setred introduced its 3D visualization solution developed for the medical industry, the Setred MD20-3D display and Samurai 3D medical imaging software, at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2010, in Vienna, from March 4–8.
The growth rate among non-radiologists who own or lease PET equipment was far higher than radiologists between 2002 and 2007, according to a study published in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has issued a patent for Positron's Tech-Assist, which reduces radiation exposure to the worker while injecting radiopharmaceuticals into patients when performing PET imaging studies.
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands and the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands have signed an agreement to jointly research new multimodality imaging solutions aimed at improving the early detection and treatment of cancer and neurological and cardiovascular diseases.
PET with 11C-labeled Pittsburgh Compound-B (PIB) is a powerful tool in examining the relationship between amyloid deposits, clinical symptoms and structural and functional brain changes in the normal aging and Alzheimer's disease, according to a survey in a special issue of Behavioral Neurology, released in December 2009.
Astemizole (Hismanal, Janssen Pharmaceutica) and lansoprazole (Prevacid, Novartis), with medical applications in the treatment of allergies and gastrointestinal disorders respectively, can be used as PET radiotracers for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published in the January issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
Pediatric PET studies of constant image quality can be performed with time or dose savings of as much as 50 percent for the lightest patients (10–20 kg), according to a study published in the February issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Scientists at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have received a $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a neuroimaging project to study frontotemporal dementia in patients using PET, MRI and diffusion tensor imaging.
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A study using PET imaging to compare nicotine accumulation in smokers found that nicotine washed out of the addicted smoker’s lungs and into their blood less efficiently and the study could help provide a treatment program for cigarette smokers who are trying to quit, according to a research scheduled to appear online in the early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week of March 8.
PETNET Solutions, a subsidiary of Siemens Medical Solutions, is preparing to distribute NaF-18 (sodium fluoride-18) through its network of 47 PET radiopharmacies in the U.S. in support of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) memorandum to allow for coverage with evidence development of NaF-18 PET imaging.
The molecular imaging market is currently valued at approximately $5 billion, with half of the revenue being generated in North America alone, according to a market research report from Espicom Business Intelligence.
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has launched an online nuclear medicine and PET accreditation application program to potentially reduce the time for facilities to become accredited.
The use of advanced imaging modalities such as MRI, CT and PET have “increased dramatically” in physician offices and hospital emergency and outpatient departments over the last decade, according to an annual report on U.S. health issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Adding whole-body PET-FDG to the pre-therapeutic conventional staging of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma improved the TNM [tumor, node and metastasis] classification of the disease and altered the management of 13.7 percent of patients, according to a study published in the February issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Best Theratronics is manufacturing cyclotrons for the production of diagnostic and therapeutic medical isotopes to address the global medical isotope shortage.
Siemens Healthcare has selected LinkMed’s ONCOlog Medical “Dignity Carrier” for preparing patients for PET/CT imaging for special applications.
A study and an accompanying editorial published in the January issue of Journal of Nuclear Medicine suggests that essential elements were missing from many oncologic PET reports and these deficiencies may render reports less helpful to referring physicians and also lead to misdiagnoses as well as cause coding and billing errors.
The Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) has been approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as one of the three accreditation bodies for suppliers seeking to furnish the technical component of advanced diagnostic imaging services under the Medicare program.
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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.