Nuclear Medicine

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• Electron Intraoperative Radiotherapy Can Reduce Six-Week Radiation Cycles to One Day

• Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy Provides Sustained Local Control for Inoperable, Early Stage Lung Cancer Patients

• New Radiosurgery Technology Used to Treat Tumors Encroaching on Patient’s Spinal Cord

• Proton Therapy for Early Stage Breast Cancer Less Expensive Than Various Alternative Radiotherapy Techniques

• Prone Radiotherapy Board Used for Breast Cancer Patients Cuts the Amount of Radiation to Lung, Heart Tissue by 90%

• Technique Enables More Effective PET Scanning to Detect Cancer, Heart Conditions

• New SPECT System Scans Virtually Every Patient and Is Designed to Fit into Most Nuclear Medicine Exam Rooms

• Integrated Nuclear Medicine System Increases Clinical Throughput and Improves Interdepartmental Communication.

• Five Proton Therapy Treatment Rooms Plus System Upgrade Deployed at Scripps Proton Therapy Center

• PET/CT Imaging Could Transform Diagnosis and Treatment for Children with Neuroblastoma

• FDG-PET/CT Imaging Helpful for Breast Cancer Patients Younger Than Forty

• PET-CT Used for Lung Cancer Diagnosis May Be Less Effective in Areas Where Infectious Lung Disease Is More Common

• PET-CT Imaging Forecasts Survival of Lymphoma Better Than Standard Imaging Strategies

• First All Pencil-Beam Proton Center in the United States Designed to Treat Wide Range of Tumors

• MRI and PET Used with Solid Tumor Response Evaluation Criteria to Track Treatment in Bone Metastases

• Global Partnership Provides Treatment Planning Support for Modulated Arc Radiotherapy

• New Cardiology Imaging Tools Include MRI Myocardial Tissue Quantification Tool and to Help Fight Cardiovascular Diseases

• Nanotechnology Provides an Armory of Imaging and Therapeutic Applications

• PET Imaging Reveals Brain Benefits from Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery

• PET/CT Using FDG-Labeled Leukocytes Detects Infection in Acute Pancreatitis Patients

• Identifying Brain Networks Using Metabolic Brain Imaging-Based Mapping Strategy

• Soft Tissue Radiotherapy Real-Time Tracking Device Receives Approval

• Simplified Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis Using PET Imaging and More Effective Criteria