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Hold off on the Egg McMuffins before GES tests, experts say

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Nuclear medicine technologists are being advised that not just any meal works for patients before gastric emptying scintigraphy (GES), a common imaging procedure to evaluate how ingested food moves through the stomach. Yet according to a recent review, GES meal protocols in hospitals across the U.S.

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The rise of theranostics: Part 5 -- Advice from center administrators

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As nuclear medicine therapies gain stature compared to nuclear medicine in diagnostic imaging, hospital administrators may be eyeing the potential of adding theranostics services. A shortage of nuclear medicine technologists means a theranostics center may need to limit its patient volume.

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The rise of theranostics: Part 3 -- What is a theranostics center?

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Eliot Siegel, MD; Stanislav Spiridonov, MD; Nathan Gee, MD; and Anthony Chang, PhD, are among a niche gathering of early adopters, entrepreneurial physicians, medical physicists, and investors with a sweet spot for nuclear medicine, diagnostic radiology, and radiation oncology.

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Meet the Minnies 2024 finalists

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Louis School of Medicine and completed his residency and a neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He has published more than 1,000 articles, is the author or co-author of 10 textbooks, and member of editorial boards for more than 35 journals. Deng is lauded internationally as an educator.

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PET reveals ‘smoldering’ brain inflammation in patients treated for MS

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The finding suggests that PET imaging of translocator protein (TSPO) in the brain can serve as a biomarker for evaluating patients whose disease progresses despite treatment, noted lead author Tarun Singhal, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and colleagues. Image courtesy of Clinical Nuclear Medicine.

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Generative AI, radiologist shortages feature in 2024 Minnies

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We hope you enjoy our article as well as the opportunity to hear directly from the recipients. This year's Most Effective Radiology Administrator/Manager wears multiple hats at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH) and Washington University (WU) in St. We're more than 20 hospitals now," Beyder said. "I Louis, MO Dmitry Beyder.

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Can ictal SPECT make a comeback in epilepsy patients?

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The researchers leveraged what they described as an untapped opportunity that allowed them to perform SPECT just seconds after triggering seizures, with the imaging visualizing brain regions associated with language difficulties in three patients, noted lead author Sabry Barlatey, MD, PhD, of University Hospital of Bern, and colleagues. “We