Download Mobile App

Video Library

Agreement to Boost Innovation in Nuclear Medicine Radioactive Tracers

By MedImaging International staff writers
Posted on 13 Jan 2015

An agreement has been signed that will innovate and increase the availability of tracers for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanning. The agreement includes the building of a new cyclotron PET tracer production center.

Radiologists use small amounts of tracers in patients together with a PET scanner to help diagnose cancer and find cancer hot spots, for research into dementia and Alzheimer's disease, and to map and treat neurological and cardiovascular diseases. In the future, PET tracers will increasingly be used in molecular medicine to target specific diseases and for personalized treatments.

The tracer center will include two GE Healthcare PETtrace 800 cyclotron systems, 20 hot cells for radiation safety, TRACERlab FX nuclear chemistry synthesizers for remote monitoring of tracer production, and the FASTlab platform that can use one hardware platform to produce multiple types of tracers.

The agreement was signed between GE Healthcare (Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, UK), the Stockholm County Council (Stockholm, Sweden), and the Karolinska University Hospital (Solna, Stockholm, Sweden) and includes comprehensive technical training for Karolinska hospital staff, and joint innovation projects.

Karl Blight, General Manager, GE Healthcare, Northern Europe, said, “The wider availability of PET imaging technology and its benefits for early diagnosis and staging of diseases has grown the interest and demand for new PET tracers. We are entering a new era in molecular medicine with targeted tracers for specific diseases and personalized treatment pathways.”

Related Links:
GE Healthcare
Stockholm County Council
Karolinska University Hospital

Visit expo >

Post-Processing Imaging System

DynaCAD Prostate

Mobile X-Ray System

K4W

Half Apron

Demi

Pocket Fetal Doppler

CONTEC10C/CL

Latest Nuclear Medicine News

Channels

Radiography

view channel

Image: Screening mammograms and artificial intelligence (AI) score changes over time in two individuals with screen-detected cancer. Full-field digital mammograms show craniocaudal (top) and mediolateral (bottom) views of the left and right breast (Photo courtesy of Radiological Society of North America)

AI Mammography Tools Detect Early Breast Cancer Signs Years Before Diagnosis

Breast cancer screening aims to detect tumors before symptoms develop, but subtle mammographic changes can appear years before diagnosis and may be missed during routine reads. Delayed detection can lead... Read more

$Image: Kyushu University researchers use Dynamic Chest Radiography (DCR) to evaluate the severity of Pulmonary Regurgitation (PR), a common complication after treatment of the congenital heart disease Tetralogy of Fallot. The analysis only requires the patient to hold their breath for seven seconds for a sequence of images of their heart to be taken. The images are then analyzed and extracted into a waveform that can show the severity of PR. The new technique\\\'s detection accuracy of severe PR is 93%, with a sensitivity of 93% and a specificity of 94%. (Photo courtesty of Kyushu University/Yuzo Yamasaki)$

Rapid X-Ray Test Quantifies Pulmonary Regurgitation After Tetralogy of Fallot Repair

Tetralogy of Fallot is the most common cyanotic congenital heart defect and can leave patients with pulmonary valve regurgitation, a backward flow of blood into the right ventricle after repair.... Read more

Image credit: Shu-Han Chen / St. Paul’s Hospital / National Taiwan University

AI Tool Flags Osteoporosis Risk from Routine Chest X-Rays

Osteoporosis is a progressive loss of bone density that is often silent until a fracture occurs. Current screening frameworks concentrate on older women and select high-risk groups. Many men, younger adults,... Read more

Simple Chest X-Ray Measure Predicts Survival After Lung Cancer Surgery

Obstructive ventilatory disorder, marked by airflow limitation that reduces breathing efficiency, increases postoperative risk in patients with lung cancer. Although surgery offers the best chance of cure,... Read more

MRI

view channel

International Study Assesses AI for Prostate Cancer MRI Interpretation

Prostate cancer is a leading cause of cancer morbidity in men, and accurate early diagnosis hinges on expert interpretation of prostate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Rapid adoption of MRI-first pathways... Read more

$Image: By training the AI with simulations, researchers can reconstruct brain images with high precision using only one-tenth of the data typically required in magnetic resonance imaging. The image shows a metric known as “fractional anisotropy”—an index of myelination—obtained using conventional methods and with the new approach (Photo courtesy of Instituto de Neurociencias UMH CSIC)$