A minimally invasive PET scan could tell clinicians about a patient’s exocrine function without all of the usual pains of conventional testing, according to a study published May 19 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

In this video, BBC reporter Fergus Walsh is the first to undergo an MRI scan as part of the largest scan study to date and describes how the study is evolving.

IBA Molecular North America, Inc. (IBA Molecular) announced the signing of a 3-year group purchasing agreement with Premier, Inc. (Premier), a leading health care improvement company, to offer PET radiopharmaceuticals, including 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), a diagnostic radiotracer used in oncology, neurology and cardiology, to Premier member imaging centers across the country.

An estimated 100,000 participants are expected to get involved in a major effort to understand the pathology of dementia. Medical research institute UK Biobank is planning to image 9,000 cases of Alzheimer’s disease by 2022.

Based on principles of light-field microscopy, an international team of researchers has created a novel molecular imaging technique that allows three-dimensional scenes of an entire brain’s neural networks in milliseconds flat, officials from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced May 19.

A gift of $3.5 million has been given in a single donation to establish a molecular imaging facility at the State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook. Provided by Lalit and Kavita Bahl, the gifted facility will include a cyclotron and be named the Bahl Molecular Imaging Laboratory.

When compared to planar technetium-99m imaging, SPECT/CT was more adept at finding the source of acute gastrointestinal bleeds, according to a study presented May 8 during the 2014 annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society held in San Diego.

Idaho Falls, Idaho, producer of nuclear medicine products and services International Isotopes announced May 15 the financial results for the first quarter 2014. Revenue was reported as $1,948,856, up 17 percent from $1,672,789 for the same timeframe last year.