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.

Australia is a hotbed of Alzheimer’s and other neuroimaging and therapeutics research. Melbourne-based Prana Biotechnology is bringing in a new director, Ira Shoulson, MD, to serve on the company’s board.

Watch a fly-through of Glass Brain, a 3D imagining of the human brain by researchers at the University of California San Francisco. This video shows the 3D brain model made possible by electroencephalography data and white matter tract reconstruction from MRI diffusion tensor imaging. UCSF is using the technology to research possible treatments for neurodegenerative disease.

CorTechs Labs, a quantitative imaging technology company in San Diego, is teaming up with the genomics and therapeutics group Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) to align their data into a comprehensive phenotyping database.