SPECT/CT Systems

SNM Clinical Trials Network Validates 100th Scanner

SNM's Clinical Trials Network (CTN) last week validated its 100th scanner, an important milestone in CTN's two-and-a-half year history. Scanner validation is an essential component of the CTN imaging site qualification program, which works with si...

BrightView XCT’s Algorithms Allow for More Accurate...
November 15, 2011 – The new full iterative technology (FIT) now available on the BrightView XCT uses advanced algorithms for the truest picture possible. New...
GE Healthcare’s Alcyone Nuclear Cardiology Platform Goes...
September 9, 2011 — GE Healthcare announced it has received commitments from more than 100 customers globally for its Alcyone technology. The Alcyone is a...
New SPECT System Addresses Need for Accessible Healthcare...
June 8, 2011 – GE Healthcare is offering a new fully upgradeable SPECT technology that allows patient dose as low as 50 percent of those of standard nuclear...
Philips to Display Hybrid Imaging at SNM
April 22, 2011 – At the Society of Nuclear Medicine’s annual meeting, Philips will highlight several new imaging systems. The meeting will take place June 4-8...
GE’s Discovery NM/CT 670 is designed to improve workflow, dose management and ov
GE Healthcare Highlights Latest Nuclear Imaging Technology at RSNA 2011
GE Healthcare looks to the future of molecular imaging through improving cost, quality and access by helping clinicians deliver responsible
GE Healthcare Introduces Discovery NM630 SPECT system
The new GE Healthcare Discovery NM630 single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is engineered to help accommodate more patients...
Low-Dose Reconstruction Added to SPECT/CT Scanner
Low-dose, flat-panel computed tomography (CT) iterative reconstruction was added to the BrightView XCT single photon emission computed...
Portable Nuclear Imaging System Expands Utility, Performance
A large field-of-view, general-purpose portable nuclear imaging system makes it possible to image without boundaries for a diverse range of...
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Articles

Trends and Advances in Cardiac SPECT and SPECT/CT
Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) remains a well-entrenched imaging modality for nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) more...
Enhancing Cardiac Nuclear Imaging
There are currently three major trends in cardiac nuclear perfusion imaging technology: advances in detector hardware, improved software and new radiotracers....
Trends in Cardiac Nuclear Imaging
Technology in the field of nuclear cardiac imaging — single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) — has been...
Time for a New Normal in Nuclear Cardiology?
As production of molybdenum-99 returns to normal with the Canadian Chalk River Laboratories reactor back online and the supply of 99m-technetium stabilizes,...

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A Cardiac Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
As an editor for DAIC and Imaging Technology News, I am a third-party observer in the cardiac and...
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The da Vinci Robot is a Case of Seeing is Believing
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MDCT Imaging 2012: Advancing the Science of Imaging
As modern multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) becomes a primary imaging modality across all specialties, there has been increased focus on lowering the radiation dose required to create...
Cardiac CT in the Emergency Department: Are You Ready?
Performance of cardiac CT (CCTA) in the emergency department (ED) is rapidly becoming the standard-of-care in patients presenting to the ED with chest pain that are at low to intermediate risk for...
Webinar Explores 3.0T Clinical Cardiac MR
Earn CME credit and learn the latest trends in cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) at 3.0T.  Orignally broadcast  September 8, 2011.  Archive availabe September 16, 2011 until Setpember 16...