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 - patients

The rally cry heard round the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) educational sessions, hallway discussions and exhibit floor pitches this week in Vancouver was the message of Hal Anger Lectureship & Award lecturer Michael G. Stabin, PhD, researcher at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, too: patient-specific dosimetry is a must in diagnosis and therapy. “Patients are different, they need different therapy,” he said.

 - Senior man

PET/MR scans demonstrated a higher capacity for mapping recurrent prostate cancer by finding more areas of prostate cancer metastases than hybrid PET/CT imaging, according to the results of a study presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging’s 2013 Annual Meeting in Vancouver.

 - angry physician

DALLAS—Most clinical software projects are subject to two laws. The number of physicians who show up for demonstrations is inverse to the number in the post-deployment lynch mob. The physicians who make the time for informatics demos tend to be super-users and don’t represent the target audience for new technology.

 - Eliot L. Siegel, MD and Watson

DALLAS—Personalized medicine will completely revolutionize the way we do diagnostic imaging, Eliot L. Siegel, MD, chief of radiology and nuclear imaging at VA Maryland Healthcare System in Baltimore, predicted at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting. Despite the potential, imaging is not even close to ready for the era of personalized medicine, he continued.

 - Alzheimer's Disease

Amyloid plaque burden has been linked with hypometabolism of neurons in areas of the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease, according to the results of a study presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging’s 2013 annual meeting in Vancouver.