RSNA calls out toxicity concerns with theranostics
While recent evidence suggests that theranostic agents may be more effective when used earlier for prostate cancer patients, experts recommend proceeding conservatively with theranostic treatments until more is known about dose limits, according to an article published March 21 by the RSNA.
Data from theranostics is starting to focus on radiation dosimetry and dose limits in relation to kidney and other organ damage, said Nadine Mallak, MD, associate professor of body imaging and nuclear medicine at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.
The article points out that compared with external beam radiation therapy...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 22, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Nuclear Radiology Source Type: news
Radiology retains popularity in 2024 Main Residency Match
Although falling just short of the 100% rate achieved in the last two years, nearly all available resident positions for diagnostic and interventional radiology were filled on Match Day 2024 on March 15.
In announcing the results of the 2024 Main Residency Match, the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) noted that interventional radiology-integrated had the fifth-highest percentage (91.4%) among positions filled with U.S. MD and DO seniors.
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Radiology Education Source Type: news
GE Healthcare, Hartford HealthCare extend Care Alliance agreement
GE HealthCare (GEHC) and Connecticut-based Hartford HealthCare have extended their "Care Alliance" collaboration through 2030.
Under the collaboration, Hartford HealthCare will upgrade its imaging technology using a phased approach for the acquisition, deployment, and redeployment of CT, PET/CT, MRI, x-ray, nuclear medicine, mammography, ultrasound, and OEC 3D surgical imaging C-arm systems, according to GEHC. Many of the new systems in the collaborative effort will include tested AI and machine-learning software, and patient monitoring, anesthesia, maternal infant care, and diagnostic cardiology technologies are also in...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Installations Source Type: news
FAPI-PET/CT outperforms FDG-PET/CT in women with invasive breast cancer
This study underscores Ga-68 FAPI-PET/CT’s superiority over F-18 FDG-PET/CT for ILC,” the group concluded. A link to the full study can be found here. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Breast Source Type: news
Groups aim to standardize nuclear medicine imaging of CV infections
Eleven medical associations have released guidance on the use of PET/CT and SPECT/CT for patients with cardiovascular (CV) infections.
The recommendations could improve patient care, as current clinical tools are often insufficient in complicated cases, noted lead author of the guidance Jamieson Bourque, MD, of the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville. The document was published jointly March 11 in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, Clinical Infectious Diseases, the Heart Rhythm Journal, and JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.
“The stakes are high with cardiovascular infection because the incidence is incr...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Molecular Imaging Source Type: news
Cannabis may influence bowel motility
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.
“Understanding the effects of cannabis and weight loss drugs on gut motility – that is the movement of food throughout the body – is essential for nuclear medicine providers,” said Rutger Gunther, MD, in a March 5 news release from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
Gunther, a radiologist at UT Health San Antonio, and colleagues penned an article published in the March issue of the J...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 11, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Subspecialties Nuclear Medicine Nuclear Radiology Source Type: news
Hold off on the Egg McMuffins before GES tests, experts say
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.
In a recent article published March 1 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology, Jena-Lee McKee, of Dyersburg Hospital in Tennessee, and Mary Beth Farrell, of the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission in Ellicott City, Maryland, advised technologists that special-order meals will not deliver accurate results and will serve up a “buffet of confusion” and irreproducible results.
“Stop squirting Tc...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 7, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Subspecialties Nuclear Medicine Radiologic Technologist Nuclear Radiology Source Type: news
IMV: PET scan volumes continue to grow
Davin Korstjens.
In 2023 compared with 2022, the total volume of positron emission tomography (PET) scans increased 10.2% year over year, according to the newly published IMV 2024 PET Market Summary Report.
In 2023, the average number of PET scans per fixed PET site (versus mobile PET) increased 6.7% from 1,401 estimated PET scans per system in 2022 to 1,495 in 2023. As of the 2023 PET survey, 62% of sites have at least one physician who reads PET scans in their department, with an average of 5.4 physicians reading PET scans per site.
Looking ahead, 67% of PET sites anticipate their procedure volumes will increase over ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 7, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Davin Korstjens Tags: Practice Management Subspecialties Molecular Imaging Nuclear Radiology Source Type: news
PET lung scan times could be cut by half
This study indicates that an early 30-minute dynamic FDG-PET acquisition appears to be sufficient to provide quantitative images with good-quality and accurate Ki values for the assessment of lung lesions,” the group concluded. The full article can be found here. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 6, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Subspecialties Nuclear Radiology Source Type: news
GEHC to collaborate with OSF Healthcare, Pointcore
GE HealthCare (GEHC) has entered into a 10-year collaboration with OSF Healthcare and Pointcore.
OSF HealthCare is a health system that serves patients throughout Illinois and Michigan and is supported by Pointcore, a healthcare management and nonclinical shared services company.
The collaboration will consist of investment in new technology systems, digital tools and resources, services, and support across a variety of care areas including nuclear medicine, oncology, and radiology; a new investment approach that will use analytics to streamline capital management; and OSF's use of GEHC's Digital Expert Access with remot...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 20, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Blue Earth highlights early lutetium-177 prostate cancer clinical results
Blue Earth Therapeutics is highlighting early clinical results from a German trial investigating the use of a lutetium-177 (Lu-177)-labeled prostate specific antigen (PSMA) radiopharmaceutical.
A study conducted by researchers from University Hospital Augsburg in Germany used Blue Earth's Lu-177-labeled radiohybrid (rh) prostate-specific membrane antigen (Lu-177 rhPSMA-10.1) and its findings were published in December in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
The German team reported that of four patients with metastatic prostate cancer who were assessed for radiologic progression-free survival, two had not progressed at 24 an...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 20, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
AI spots unidentified brain tumor on PET imaging
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.“This incidental finding highlights the potential of AI-based decision support for patient management in terms of diagnostic and treatment planning based on amino acid PET,” noted lead author Philipp Lohmann, PhD, of Aachen University in Aachen, and colleagues.In brief, the deep learning-based AI model (called “JuST_BrainPET”) is designed to automatically segment metabolic tumor volume (MTV) from surrounding healthy tissu...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Subspecialties Neuroradiology Source Type: news
Isotopia signs E Solutions to build new manufacturing facility
Isotopia USA has signed an agreement with E Solutions to design and build its new 28,000-sq-ft medical isotope manufacturing facility at its headquarters in Indianapolis, IN.
The facility will include cleanrooms and analytical and microbiological labs necessary for high-volume production of lutetium-177 and terbium-161 isotopes, which are used in targeted nuclear medicine therapies for cancer patients.
E Solutions, also based in Indianapolis, is a company that specializes in executing multiple FDA-regulated installations in the radiopharmaceutical industry. Isotopia anticipates providing products to its key customers in ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 7, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
British Columbia to invest $32M Canadian in nuclear medicine
The government of British Columbia has secured $32 million Canadian ($23.7 million U.S.) in funding for a new cyclotron facility and radiopharmacy laboratory at the University of British Columbia (UBC), according to news reports.British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix said on January 30 that the funds are intended to increase domestic supplies of radioisotopes for nuclear medicine imaging exams, with the new facility expected to expand British Columbia's capacity from 16,000 PET/CT scans per year to 41,000 per year, CTV News Vancouver reported.“Increasing our PET CT scan access enables our physicians to accurately...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 6, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
New tau PET tracer shows promise in Alzheimer ’s disease patients
In this study, the group aimed to further test the approach to better understand the dynamic interactions between tau accumulation and beta-amyloid, neurodegeneration, and cognitive decline over time.
The team prospectively enrolled 52 participants (age, 69.7 ± 8.4 years; 18 men and 34 women): seven with normal cognition, 28 with mild cognitive impairment, and 17 with Alzheimer’s disease. All patients underwent F-18 PI-2620 PET imaging, as well as amyloid PET, MRI, and neuropsychologic tests at baseline and at follow-up after one year. In addition, the researchers classified the participants into early-onset ( (S...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 5, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Subspecialties Neuroradiology Source Type: news
