Nuclear Medicine
Functional Brain PET Imaging Effectively Forecasts Which Vegetative Patients Can Recover Consciousness
Positron emission tomography has the potential for determining which brain damaged individuals in vegetative states have the potential to recover consciousness, according to new research. More...27 Apr 2014
Early PET-Negative Stage I/II Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients Show Increased Risk of Early Relapse when Radiotherapy Is Not Used
Analysis of a new study indicates an increased risk of early relapse when excluding radiotherapy in early positron emission tomography scan-negative patients with stage I/II Hodgkin’s lymphoma. More...23 Apr 2014
Beam Technology Enables Less Harmful, More Accurate, and Cost-Effective Radiotherapy 
Newly developed technology will enable more effective, less harmful, and drastically less costly radiotherapy and radiosurgery treatment using low-energy X-ray tubes instead of high-energy sources typically used today. More...
21 Apr 2014
Sharp Decline Seen in Use of Cardiac Nuclear Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
There has been a substantial decrease in the use of nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging since 2006, an imaging modality used to detect areas of the heart with decreased blood flow, a decline that cannot be justified by an increase in other imaging methods, according to recent findings. More...15 Apr 2014
Collaboration Expands Capacity for Proton Therapy Clinical Research and Patient Treatments
Varian Medical Systems and the Paul Scherrer Institute are extending an existing collaboration in the field of proton therapy to offer patients more accurate cancer treatments using intensity-modulated proton therapy. More...14 Apr 2014
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