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Nuclear Medicine

Radiotherapy Application Spares Healthy Tissue, Improves Cancer Treatment

Medical physicists have devised a new real-time tumor tracking technique that can help minimize the amount of radiation delivered to surrounding healthy tissue in a patient and maximize the dose the tumor receives. More...
21 Feb 2011

Flutemetamol PET Imaging Agent Useful for Detection of Amyloid Plaque Linked to Alzheimer's Disease

Research data suggest that 18F flutemetamol could be valuable when combined with current diagnostic tools used by physicians to provide accurate identification of beta amyloid plaques. More...
17 Feb 2011

Cancer Patients Gain Access to Advanced Radiotherapy Treatments in Bangladesh

Cancer patients in Bangladesh, a country of 160 million people served by only 11 modern radiotherapy linear accelerators, now have access to sophisticated radiotherapy technology. More...
17 Feb 2011

PET Scans Might Allow Early Prediction of Response to Targeted Therapy of Thyroid Cancer

Positron emission tomography can image metabolic changes following treatment with the protein kinase inhibitor vandetanib, helping to define the therapy response or the effectiveness of the agent. More...
16 Feb 2011

Molecular Imaging Can Identify Biomarker Linked with Alzheimer's Disease

Preliminary research suggests that use of a type of molecular imaging procedure may have the ability to detect the presence of beta-amyloid in the brains of individuals during life, a biomarker that is identified during autopsy to confirm a diagnosis of Alzheimer disease. More...
15 Feb 2011
Image: The Varian ProBeam proton therapy system (photo courtesy Varian Medical Systems).

Proton Beam Therapy System Enhances Treatment Quality

An innovative treatment system delivers precise intensity modulated proton therapy, using pencil beam scanning technology. More...
30 Jan 2011
Image: The NMR machine will rapidly analyze intact tissue samples from surgery patients (photo courtesy of Imperial College London).

Revolutionizing Surgery with Real-Time Metabolic Profiling

Surgical metabonomics, the metabolic profiling of tissue samples, could transform the way surgeons make decisions in the operating theatre. More...
27 Jan 2011
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The Nuclear Medicine channel of MedImaging brings the latest in research and clinical radiotherapy, proton therapy, PET-CT, SPECT, SQUID, radiopharmacology, scintillography, trends and safety concerns.
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