AuntMinnie

JANUARY 6, 2025

In 2024, it sent its survey to 1,263 directors of several programs, including the following: radiography, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine technology, sonography, and MR imaging. The ASRT began tracking enrollment data for sonography and MR imaging in 2022. All these programs are approved by the ARRT. "We

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 13, 2025

F-18 fluoroestradiol (FES)-PET scans can predict whether or not endocrine therapy may be effective in women with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer, according to a study published March 13 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Image courtesy of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 26, 2025

A select group of eight radionuclides holds hope for an emerging cancer treatment in nuclear medicine called targeted alpha therapy (TAT). Moreover, several of these eight are being used to co-develop SPECT and PET imaging agents in the field of theranostics. Targeted alpha therapy's elite eight.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

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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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Nuclear medicine technologists experienced the largest average compensation gains, up 20.2% ASRT's survey confirmed that all major disciplines in medical imaging and radiation therapy in the U.S. Magnetic resonance imaging technologists saw an increase of 12.5% have seen wage and salary increases since 2022.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The study was published February 13 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Ga-68 FZ-NR-1 PET/CT images and F-18 FDG PET/CT and PET/MRI images in representative nectin-4-positive TNBC patients. (A) A) PET/CT images and nectin-4 immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining of patient 1.

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Health Imaging

APRIL 6, 2023

The generated report included indication, findings laid out numerically, TNM stage, impression and follow-up recommendations.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 4, 2025

Nuclear medicine physicians analyzed both sets of images and determined disease stages, with final stages verified via biopsy. (B) Image and caption courtesy of the RSNA. Between December 2018 and January 2021, the group enrolled 41 female participants (median age, 56 years) who underwent both PET scans.

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Health Imaging

APRIL 11, 2023

“If testing is successful in humans, this would represent an excellent new treatment option for patients with this disease.”

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AuntMinnie

JULY 31, 2024

Claritas HealthTech has spun off its nuclear medicine division into a separate company named Claritas NucMed Technologies. and will focus on the global commercialization, delivery, and deployment of its nuclear medicine suite of software solutions for PET and SPECT, the company said.

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Radiology Business

MAY 21, 2024

The FIND Act is supported by several industry stakeholders including ACR and the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 31, 2025

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 also founded and led radiology educational organizations such as Educational Symposia and Imaging Consultants.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Conversely, prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET is a molecular imaging approach that uses radiotracers to detect these types of cancer based on the expression of PSMA protein by the cancer cells. Hybrid PET/MRI scanners were introduced about 15 years ago to leverage the advantages of both methods.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 2, 2025

A significant percentage of imaging studies ordered by office-based healthcare providers are self-interpreted rather than referred to radiologists for reading, according to researchers from the Harvey L. million office-based imaging claims for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2022 that were ordered by nonradiologists.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While academic medical center radiology departments are expanding significantly and hospitals are adapting to health system consolidation trends, demand for innovative imaging informatics remains strong among operations and physician teams. billion healthcare facility. Another, a new hospital complex is underway at University of Utah Health.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 17, 2024

The world’s top nuclear medicine societies have issued international guidelines on the role of PET/CT in patients with invasive ductal carcinoma breast cancer, with the document released May 14 in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 10, 2024

Currently, the CMS bundles Medicare payments for PET radiotracers for diagnosing disease as part of the packaged cost of imaging procedures in hospital outpatient settings. The new plan would likely increase patient access to these important imaging studies.

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Health Imaging

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging President, Cathy Cutler, explains the long road to jump-starting a new U.S. domestic supply of imaging isotopes.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 21, 2024

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 group wrote.

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Health Imaging

APRIL 6, 2023

Issued by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) and the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) , the new guidelines are intended to inform any practitioners involved in ordering, performing, reading and reporting SSTR PET imaging.

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Health Imaging

APRIL 6, 2023

Doximity's new 2023 Physician Compensation Report offers detailed insight into the impact of continued efforts to narrow the gender pay gap in medicine.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 5, 2024

Researchers at the University of Zurich in Switzerland say they have produced the first cinematically rendered image from a patient based on a standard clinical F-18 FDG-PET/MRI scan. The article was published on July 1 in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and featured as the journal's Image of the Month.

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Health Imaging

MARCH 6, 2024

Edibles can reduce gut motility and complicate gastric emptying, a new Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology study finds.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 1, 2024

Almost a third of imaging exam interpretations are performed by nonradiologists, according to a Harvey L. of all imaging studies for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2022, but that the remaining 27.9% The team conducted a study that included data from 123 million 2022 Medicare Part B imaging claims. Nuclear medicine 11.8%

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 11, 2024

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 Effects of Cannabis on Bowel Motility and Beyond.” The full article is available here.

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Ben White

MARCH 24, 2025

This month, at the request of the Society of Pediatric Radiology , the ABR announced the addition of pediatric radiology to the “do a fellowship during residency” pathway first pioneered by nuclear medicine several years ago. Various imaging societies would certainly have an opinion, but no one can stop us.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging (SNMMI) is praising the U.S. NETs are diagnosed and treated with nuclear medicine imaging. Senate for including neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) in the fiscal year 2025 Senate Defense Appropriations report.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 5, 2025

It's been really neat for us to not only have the beneficial reuse, where we're offsetting the cost of the American taxpayer, but you're actually seeing something pretty cool come out of it in nuclear medicine space, explained OREM manager Jay Mullis. recently launched an effort similar to OREM's.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

An AI algorithm designed for brain PET imaging found a glioblastoma in a patient that had gone undetected by physicians, according to a case reported February 15 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Image courtesy of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

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UCSF Biomedical Imaging

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We highlight some of the recent accomplishments in research and clinical trials by members of the department who apply nuclear medicine to diagnose and treat illnesses including cancer.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The delayed restart of a nuclear research reactor in the Netherlands is expected to cause supply shortages of the imaging agent technetium-99 m (Tc-99m) into November, according to reports. “We According to estimates, Tc-99m is used in 40,000 diagnostic imaging scans in the U.S. per day, a majority in nuclear cardiology. “As

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Mo-100 is the parent isotope of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), which further decays to technetium-99m (Tc-99m), one of the most widely used radioisotopes worldwide in nuclear medicine imaging. Prior to the achievement, the country relied completely on imports of molybdenum isotopes, the CNNC added.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 27, 2023

CHICAGO - AI applications in nuclear medicine are beginning to pick up stea.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Nuclear medicine technology program enrollments increased to 1,403 students enrolling in 2024, up from 903 in 2023. And MR imaging programs enrolled an average of 1,004 students, nearly doubling the 555 reported in 2023. In 2024, an estimated 5,511 students enrolled in ARRT-recognized sonography programs.

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Radiology Business

APRIL 6, 2023

The Facilitating Innovative Nuclear Diagnostics Act of 2023 would eliminate barriers to nuclear medicine, supporters charged.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 3, 2024

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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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Medical students prefer musculoskeletal, body, and breast imaging early in their clinical education, according to research published October 19 in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. The four-week radiology rotation involves didactic teaching for different imaging techniques and modalities. 0.001 Body imaging 30.2%

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