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TRIGA reactor fuel supply restored in the U.S

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“These new fuel elements will enable us to run the reactor for longer [periods of time] to support studies conducted by Penn State faculty, students, and collaborators,” said Kenan Ünlü, director of the university’s Radiation Science and Engineering Center, in a news release. Penn State received the TRIGA reactor fuel on September 27.

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Workplace violence ‘extremely high’ in radiologic sciences

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Yet no systematic review has been published on the issue in medical radiation science, the authors noted. Also, two-thirds of the studies focused on staff in diagnostic radiography, with the rest covering radiation therapy, medical sonography, and nuclear medicine.

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Ultra-High Resolution Brain PET Scanner Visualizes and Quantifies Brainstem Nuclei for the First Time

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This research was presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2023 Annual Meeting. “Up mm isotropic spatial resolution, a two-fold improvement over the High Resolution Research Tomograph (HRRT) scanner, which has been considered the state-of-the-art reference for brain PET imaging for the past 20 years.