SPECT Imaging

FDA Approves GE Healthcare's AdreView SPECT Tracer for Risk Evaluation in Heart Failure Patients

GE Healthcare announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a new indication for AdreView (Iobenguane I 123 Injection), the first and only FDA approved molecular imaging agent to link nerve function in the heart to a patient’s...

GE Healthcare Introduces Performance SPECT/CT System

GE Healthcare introduced the latest addition to its Nuclear Medicine 600 series with a new performance SPECT/CT (single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography) system, the Optima NM/CT 640.

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...

New Study Shows WBR Halves SPECT Dose, Acquisition Time

Wide beam reconstruction (WBR) reduces both dose and image acquisition time by 50 percent for myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPI), according to a new study published in the March-April 2011 issue of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. WBR...

UltraSPECT Partners with PharmaLogic to Offer Dose...
UltraSPECT has announced its distribution agreement with PharmaLogic for the sale of UltraSPECT’s cardiac and bone imaging applications. The...
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Lantheus and Fujifilm Renew Long-Term Agreement for...
Lantheus Medical Imaging has entered into a new agreement with Fujifilm RI Pharma (FRI) to license and distribute Cardiolite (Kit for the Preparation of...
FDA Approval GE Healthcare's AdreView Nuclear Imaging SPECT systems
FDA Approves GE Healthcare's AdreView SPECT Tracer for...
GE Healthcare announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a new indication for AdreView (Iobenguane I 123 Injection), the first and only...
Philips Partners with Leading Russian Research Institutes...
July 13, 2012 — Royal Philips Electronics announced that it has embarked on a five-year joint research and development (R&D) program with the St....
UltraSPECT has announced its distribution agreement with PharmaLogic for the sale of UltraSPECT’s cardiac and bone imaging
AdreView Approved for Visualization of Myocardial Sympathetic Innervation
AdreView (Iobenguane I 123 Injection) is the first and only FDA approved molecular imaging agent to link nerve function in the heart to a...
GE Healthcare Introduces Performance SPECT/CT System
The latest addition to GE Healthcare's Nuclear Medicine 600 series is a new performance SPECT/CT (single photon emission computed...
GE's SPECT System Has FDA Clearance, Offers More Affordable Nuclear Medicine Solution
GE Healthcare announced the Brivo NM615 was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in January 2012.  An advanced...
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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...
Cardiovascular Nuclear Imaging Advances Highlighted at SNM...
April 27, 2012 - More than 150 molecular imaging professionals gathered last week at the Society of Nuclear Medicine’s third Multimodality Cardiovascular...
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....
New Study Shows WBR Halves SPECT Dose, Acquisition Time
Wide beam reconstruction (WBR) reduces both dose and image acquisition time by 50 percent for myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPI), according to a new study...

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Less is More — Radiation Exposure Reduction in the EP Lab
This webinar focuses on implementation of different strategies to reduce radiation exposure during interventional electrophysiology (EP) procedures. It offers an overview of the current state-of-the-...
Iterative Reconstruction in CT: Understanding and Implementation
Radiation exposure from multidetector CT (MDCT) has become a pressing public health concern in both lay and medical publications. Implementation of iterative reconstruction offers radiologists the...
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The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) may have significant impact on healthcare providers and their cardiovascular departments. While the ruling will...

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