Vancouver, British Columbia – An 18F-FDG positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scan illustrating the effectiveness of radium-223 dichloride in treating bone metastases in breast cancer patients with bone-dominant disease has been selected as the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging’s (SNMMI) 2013 Image of the Year. Researchers selected this image from more than 2,000 studies presented over the course of four days during SNMMI’s 2013 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

With increasing prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease threatening to bankrupt Medicare and Medicaid by 2050, the fiscal pinch of the sequester could extend decades into the future and compromise already-limited progress on Alzheimer’s disease prevention and treatment. A letter in the New York Times detailed the data.

New American College of Radiology quality control (QC) requirements for ultrasound and breast ultrasound will take effect June 1, 2014

MR can be employed for PET attenuation correction, and PET/MR assessment for cardiac muscle viability delivered comparable results to PET acquired using PET/CT, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) in Vancouver.

At the 2013 annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), June 8-12 in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Siemens Healthcare (booth 720) will introduce Biograph mCT Flow – a groundbreaking new positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) system that, for the first time ever, overcomes the limitations of conventional bed-based PET/CT with FlowMotion, a revolutionary new technology that moves the patient smoothly through the system’s gantry, while continuously acquiring PET data.

IBA Molecular North America, Inc. (IBA Molecular) and MIM Software Inc. (MIM Software™) have announced an agreement to co-develop enhancements to the IBA Molecular PETLinQ™ suite of products

PET/MR scans demonstrated a higher capacity for mapping recurrent prostate cancer by finding more areas of prostate cancer metastases than hybrid PET/CT imaging, according to the results of a study presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging’s 2013 Annual Meeting in Vancouver.

Amyloid plaque burden has been linked with hypometabolism of neurons in areas of the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease, according to the results of a study presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging’s 2013 annual meeting in Vancouver.