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Body composition analysis, MRI safety topped 2024's most read articles

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Instead, the AuntMinniecommunity gravitated more toward articles describing how advanced image analysis -- including AI-based assessment of body composition on CT scans -- can track treatment results and predict patient outcomes. Those who specialized -- particularly in CT, MRI, neuroimaging, and nuclear medicine/PET -- earned more.

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Dosimetry key in Lu-177 cancer therapy

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Kesner recently wrote an article about software applications in the field that was published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. He noted that while dosimetry for Lu-177-labeled treatments is still not routinely performed in many nuclear medicine departments, cleared software for it is currently available both in the U.S.

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Groups aim to standardize nuclear medicine imaging of CV infections

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In the article, experts provide evidence-based consensus on specific clinical scenarios where PET/CT and SPECT/CT add value for patient care. The recommendations emphasize the complementary nature of these advanced nuclear medicine exams.

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FES-PET shows promise staging patients with low-grade breast cancer

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F-18 fluoroestradiol (FES) PET may improve staging of grade 1 or 2 estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer compared with F-18 FDG-PET, according to an article published March 4 in Radiology. Nuclear medicine physicians analyzed both sets of images and determined disease stages, with final stages verified via biopsy. (B)

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Radiology 'giant' Lawrence Muroff dies at 82

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Muroff served as director of MR, CT, and nuclear medicine at University Community Hospital in Tampa between 1974 and 1994 and as president of the 45-member radiology practice Drs. He was selected for radiology residency at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York, eventually acting as chief resident.

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Cannabis may influence bowel motility

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Physicians, health care providers, and medical staff caring for patients who use cannabis should be familiar with the effects of the drug on gut motility and thus nuclear medicine imaging, a recent report advises. The full article is available here. The Effects of Cannabis on Bowel Motility and Beyond.”

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New guideline covers theranostics in brain tumors

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and European experts have proposed a joint practice guideline for use in nuclear medicine on diagnostics and therapy (theranostics) of meningiomas, as published June 20 in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. The full article is available here. or European medical agencies, they added.