Nuclear Imaging

Molecular imaging, also called nuclear imaging, includes positron emission computed tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging. This section includes radiopharmaceuticals and tracers, PET-CT, SPECT-CT, and PET-MRI. 

A study from Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University (Winship) has the potential to change how patients whose prostate cancer recurs after prostatectomy are treated. The study will be featured in both the plenary session and press program of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting on Monday, October 26.
News | Prostate Cancer
ASTRO Highlights Winship Study Showing Increased Failure-free Survival in Prostate Cancer

October 24, 2020 — A study from Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University (Winship) has the potential to change how ...

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Conference programming for ASTRO20 began today, and runs through October 29 #ASTRO20
News | ASTRO
ASTRO's Exhibit Hall Only Day Draws Over 1,000 Attendees

October 24, 2020 — The American Society of Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO) 62nd Annual Meeting launched its Exhibit Hall ...

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Be sure to register for the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO) 62nd Annual Meeting, to be held October 24-28, 2020, via an interactive virtual platform. The meeting, Global Oncology: Radiation Therapy in a Changing World, will feature reports from the latest clinical trials; panels on global oncology, health disparities and the novel coronavirus; and an immersive attendee experience in a virtual convention center.
News | ASTRO
ASTRO Kicks Off Its Virtual Annual Meeting October 25

October 23, 2020 — Be sure to register for the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO) 62nd Annual Meeting, to ...

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Siemens Healthineers has introduced a new version of its c.cam dedicated cardiac nuclear medicine system to the U.S. market. This single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scanner with a reclining patient chair offers nuclear cardiology providers a low total cost of ownership, ease of installation, and a high level of image quality.
News | SPECT Imaging
Siemens Healthineers Debuts New Version of c.cam Cardiac SPECT System

September 30, 2020 — Siemens Healthineers has introduced a new version of its c.cam dedicated cardiac nuclear medicine ...

Time September 30, 2020
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Videos | Artificial Intelligence
VIDEO: Use of Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Imaging

Ernest Garcia, Ph.D., MASNC, FAHA, endowed professor in cardiac imaging, director of nuclear cardiology R&D laboratory ...

Time September 25, 2020
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Indeterminate lesion on PET/CT classified by PET/MRI for 53-y-old man with lung cancer.
News | PET-MRI
PET/MRI Improves Lesion Detection, Reduces Radiation Exposure

September 18, 2020 — A single-center observational study of more than 1,000 oncological examinations has demonstrated ...

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In I-131 cancer therapy, decay events damage sensitive DNA within a tumor cell nucleus, causing catastrophic single and double strand breaks. Clinical use of antibody-delivered Auger emitters could open a window for the targeted destruction of extracellular COVID-19 virions, decreasing the viral load during active infection and potentially easing the disease burden for a patient. View all figures from this study. http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/early/2020/07/16/jnumed.120.249748.full.pdf+html
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | Dave Fornell, Editor
Radiation Therapy Might be a Treatment Option for COVID-19

July 22, 2020 — One of the first studies has been published that looks at the use of radiation therapy to help treat ...

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Tau (blue) and amyloid (orange) distribution patterns for super-agers, normal-agers and MCI patients, when compared to a group of younger, healthy, cognitively normal, amyloid-negative individuals. Brain projections are depicted at an uncorrected significance level of p < .0001. Color bars represent the respective t-statistic. Image courtesy of Merle C. Hoenig, Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine II - Molecular Organization of the Brain, Research Center Juelich, Juelich, Germany, and Department of Nucle
News | PET Imaging
SNMMI Image of the Year Features Super-agers

July 16, 2020 — Super-agers, or individuals whose cognitive skills are above the norm even at an advanced age, have been ...

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Novel imaging agent provides foundation to inform treatment strategies
News | PET Imaging
Molecular Imaging Identifies Link Between Heart and Kidney Inflammation After Heart Attack

July 16, 2020 — Whole body positron emission tomography (PET) has, for the first time, illustrated the existence of ...

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PSMA PET/CT accurately detects recurrent prostate cancer in 67-year-old man. 18F-DCFPyL-PSMA PET/CT shows extensive, intensely PSMA-avid local recurrence in prostate (bottom row; solid arrow) in keeping with the known tumor recurrence in the prostate. Right: PET shows extensive, intensely PSMA-avid local recurrence in prostate (top row; solid arrow) and a solitary bone metastasis in left rib 2 (bottom row; dotted arrow). Image courtesy of Ur Metser, et al.
News | PET-CT
PSMA PET/CT Can Change Management in Recurrent Prostate Cancer

July 16, 2020 — New research confirms the high impact of PSMA PET/CT in the detection and management of recurrent ...

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Total-body dynamic 18F-FDG PET imaging with the uEXPLORER scanner allows us to monitor the spatiotemporal distribution of glucose concentration in metastatic tumors in the entire body (a). As compared to a typical clinical standardized uptake value image (b), the parametric image of FDG influx rate (Ki) can achieve higher lesion-to-background (e.g., the liver) contrast. In addition to glucose metabolism imaging by Ki, total-body dynamic PET also enables multiparametric characterization of tumors and organs
News | PET Imaging
Total-body Dynamic PET Successfully Detects Metastatic Cancer

July 16, 2020 — Results from the first study using uEXPLORER to conduct total-body dynamic positron emission tomography ...

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PET/CT imaging showing uptake and retention of 86Y-NM600 (imaging agent) in immunocompetent mice bearing prostate tumors. PET imaging data was employed to estimate tumor dosimetry and prescribe an immunomodulatory 90Y-NM600 (therapy agent) injected activity. Image courtesy of R Hernandez et al., University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI.
News | PET-CT
Targeted Radionuclide Therapy Enhances Prostate Cancer Response to Immunotherapies

July 15, 2020 — Targeted radionuclide therapy has been found to create a favorable tumor microenvironment in prostate ...

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Representative maximum-intensity projection PET images of a healthy human volunteer injected with 64Cu-NOTA-EB-RGD at 1, 8, and 24 hours after injection. Axial MRI and PET slices of glioblastoma patient injected with 64Cu-NOTA-EB-RGD at different time points after injection. Image courtesy of Jingjing Zhang et al., Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China/ Xiaoyuan Chen et al., Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine, NIBIB/NIH, Bethesda, USA
News | PET Imaging
New PET Radiotracer Proven Safe in Imaging Malignant Brain Tumors

July 15, 2020 — A first-in-human study presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2020 Annual ...

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Adult male with decades of right neck pain, discomfort and tightening following birth injury. The patient had failed multiple standard therapeutic maneuvers before presenting for 18F-FDG PET/MR imaging. Images shows abnormally elevated FDG uptake (white arrows; SUVmax = 1.2) observed in a linear pattern in the space in the posterolateral right neck, between the oblique capitis inferior and the semispinalis capitis muscles, where the greater occipital nerve resides. By comparison, the same region on the cont
News | SNMMI
New PET/MRI Approach Pinpoints Chronic Pain Location, Alters Management

July 14, 2020 — A new molecular imaging approach utilizing 18F-FDG positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic ...

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Left: Total-body PET/CT in psoriatic arthritis: multiple joints affected, shoulders, elbows, wrists, knees, ankles and small joints of the hands/feet. Arrow: left wrist; arrowhead: right wrist. Middle: Total-body PET/CT in rheumatoid arthritis: multiple joints affected, right shoulder, small joints of the left hand. Arrowhead at the 4th proximal interphalangeal joint shows classic ring-like uptake pattern. Arrow on the foot images demonstrates the hammer toe deformity besides big toe arthritis. Right: Total
News | SNMMI
Total-body PET/CT Captures Full Picture of Systemic Inflammatory Arthritis

July 14, 2020 — For the first time, physicians can examine the systemic burden of inflammatory arthritis simultaneously ...

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World's largest radiation oncology meeting will offer full conference on interactive platform October 25-28, 2020
News | ASTRO
ASTRO to Host Virtual Annual Meeting in October

July 9, 2020 — Registration opens today for the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO) 62nd Annual Meeting ...

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Nuclear Cardiology Optimistic About Return to Pre-COVID-19 Exam Levels. An American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) member survey are confident nuclear cardiology volumes will return to pre-pandemic levels. #COVID19 #SARScov2
News | Nuclear Imaging
Nuclear Cardiology Optimistic About Return to Pre-COVID-19 Exam Levels

June 1, 2020 — While acknowledging the challenges their specialty is facing, more than two-thirds of respondents to an ...

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The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging's 2020 annual meeting has been reimagined, and is now the SNMMI 2020 Annual Meeting — Virtual Edition
News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)
SNMMI the Latest Event to Turn Virtual

April 30, 2020 — The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging's 2020 annual meeting has been reimagined, and is ...

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Videos | Coronavirus (COVID-19)
VIDEO: COVID-19 Precautions for Cardiac Imaging

Stephen Bloom, M.D., FASNC, director of noninvasive cardiology (cardiac CT, nuclear cardiology and echocardiography) at ...

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#COVID19 #Coronavirus #2019nCoV #Wuhanvirus #SARScov2 U.S. Army Spc. Jonathon Hyde and Spc. Casymn Harrison from the 1434th Engineer Company, Grayling, Mich., Michigan National Guard, prepare patient rooms at TCF Regional Care Center in Detroit in advance of receiving COVID-19 patients, April 9, 2020 #COVID19 #Coronavirus #2019nCoV #Wuhanvirus #SARScov2
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane and Dave Fornell
COVID-19 Clinician Update

In an effort to keep the imaging field updated on the latest information being released on coronavirus (COVID-19), the ...

Time April 15, 2020
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