Nuclear Imaging
Nuclear imaging, also called molecular imaging, includes positron emission computed tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging. This section includes radiopharmaceuticals and tracers, PET-CT, SPECT-CT, and PET-MRI.
News | Cardiac Diagnostics | January 18, 2017
January 18, 2017 — A study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (...
News | Radiopharmaceuticals and Tracers | January 17, 2017
January 17, 2017 — NorthStar Medical Technologies LLC has received additional matching funds from the U.S. Department...
News | Nuclear Imaging | January 12, 2017
January 12, 2017 — Bayer Healthcare has initiated a recall of all its Medrad Intego PET Infusion System Source...
News | Nuclear Imaging | January 05, 2017
January 5, 2017 — Working in concert, the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), the Intersocietal...
News | Radiopharmaceuticals and Tracers | December 28, 2016
December 28, 2016 — The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) has developed United States...
In a pilot study, F-18-florbetaben PET imaging appeared promising for differentiating between cardiac amyloidosis and hypertensive heart disease. Image courtesy of W. Phillip Law/Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
News | Nuclear Imaging | December 06, 2016
December 6, 2016 — Researchers at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, have demonstrated that cardiac...
News | PET-CT | November 15, 2016
November 15, 2016 — Many people who experience chest pain but don’t have a heart attack breathe a big sigh of relief...
Application of dual-modality optical and PET/CT activity-based probe in experimental carotid inflammation model. Coronal noninvasive PET/CT scans of (A) healthy and (B) diseased mice with and without ligated carotid arteries respectively. Inset images show optical ex vivo florescence imagining of (A) healthy and (B) diseased carotid arteries. PET/CT and optical images courtesy of Xiaowei Ma, Toshinobu Saito and Nimali Withana.
News | PET-CT | November 01, 2016
November 1, 2016 — Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated for the first time the use of a dual optical...
News | Radiopharmaceuticals and Tracers | October 28, 2016
October 28, 2016 — The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) have released a report on the...
Technology | SPECT-CT | October 18, 2016
October 18, 2016 — At the 2016 annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA 2016), Siemens...
News | Radiopharmaceuticals and Tracers | October 17, 2016
October 17, 2016 — Lantheus Holdings Inc. announced in late September that sub-analysis data from the first Phase 3...
Technology | PET-CT | October 05, 2016
October 5, 2016 — GE Healthcare recently announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance of its...
News | PET Imaging | September 01, 2016
September 1, 2016 — The American Society for Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and...
News | SPECT Imaging | July 25, 2016
July 25, 2016 — UltraSPECT Inc. announced recently that Robert Wood Johnson Physician Enterprise (RWJPE), a multi-...
An example of a cardiac PET-CT imaging, should a color coded image of the left ventricle to help assess myocardial perfusion to detect ischemia using a Siemens scanner.
News | Nuclear Imaging | July 19, 2016
July 19, 2016 - An updated joint American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) imaging guidelines and Society of...
