Medical Imaging

Physicians utilize medical imaging to see inside the body to diagnose and treat patients. This includes computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, angiography,  and the nuclear imaging modalities of PET and SPECT. 

Definiens and Advanced Cell Diagnostics launch software for quantitative RNA in situ hybridization

Definiens AG, a healthcare company that advances personalized medicine through image analysis and digital pathology solutions, and Advanced Cell Diagnostics (ACD) of Hayward California, a leader in molecular pathology, announced recently the commercial launch of RNAscope® SpotStudio™, a custom-designed image analysis software application for ACD's RNAscope®Assays to detect and quantify RNA biomarkers.

September 17, 2013

FDA clears Siemens’ Symbia Intevo integrated SPECT and CT system

Siemens Healthcare has announced that the FDA has granted 510(k) clearance for Symbia Intevo—the world’s first xSPECT system, which combines the high sensitivity of single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with the high specificity of CT.

September 5, 2013

MaineHealth aims to achieve American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) guidelines with UltraSPECT technology

Healthcare system selects UltraSPECT nuclear medicine software for lowering dose and reducing exam time.

August 29, 2013

Exploring the M.O. of drug-resistant cancers

Researchers are forever seeking to outsmart therapy-resistant cancers. "No Through Road," a feature published Aug. 5 in Cancer Today, a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, highlights just this quest.

August 27, 2013

Siemens Healthcare introduces continuous FlowMotion PET-CT

Siemens Healthcare has launched its new Biograph mCT Flow – a groundbreaking PET-CT system. For the first time ever the system overcomes the limitations of conventional bed-based PET-CT with FlowMotion, an innovative new technology that moves the patient smoothly through the system’s gantry, while continuously acquiring PET data.

August 22, 2013

Navidea awarded NIH SBIR grant for NAV4694 beta-amyloid imaging agent phase III clinical program aimed at Alzheimer’s disease

Navidea Biopharmaceuticals announces award of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute On Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in connection with the Company's Phase 3 clinical program for its NAV4694 beta-amyloid imaging agent as an aid in the differential diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.

August 22, 2013

Navidea Biopharmaceuticals signs manufacturing agreement with Siemens’ PETNET Solutions for NAV4694 beta-amyloid imaging agent

Navidea has signed an agreement with Siemens’ PETNET Solutions that grants PETNET Solutions the right to manufacture Navidea’s Fluorine-18 labeled NAV4694, an investigational beta-amyloid PET imaging agent, which is currently being evaluated in Phase 2 and 3 clinical trials evaluating subjects with signs or symptoms of cognitive impairment such as Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s disease.

August 22, 2013

RadNet Joins Partnership to Explore Potential Alzheimer's Disease Drug

RadNet Inc. (Nasdaq:RDNT), a national leader in providing high-quality, cost-effective, fixed-site outpatient diagnostic imaging services through a network of 248 subsidiary-owned and/or operated outpatient imaging centers, announced its participation in a clinical trial to evaluate the biomarker effects of the investigational drug E2609, a BACE inhibitor, which is being developed for the potential disease modifying treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

July 16, 2013