GE Healthcare’s Discovery NM630 – for quicker, lower dose imaging – has just been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. This new system for disease detection and diagnosis is a SPECT scan – or ...

Kromek (AIM: KMK), a leading developer of radiation and bio-detection technology solutions for the advanced imaging and CBRN detection segments, is pleased to announce that one of its key customers, ...

June 22, 2004 (Philadelphia) — A relatively new imaging technique using combined single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and low-dose computed tomography (CT) may significantly improve the ...

MR Solutions continues to expand its range of preclinical scanners with the first showing of its elegant bench top CT scanner. The scanner, which was displayed for the first time at the EANM Congress ...

Sunshine Hospital in St Albans of Victoria announced that it has become the first in the state to introduce a new single-photon emission computer tomography (SPECT-CT) scanner. The state-of-the-art ...

Patients who receive cardiac positron emission testing (PET) imaging instead of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scan experienced a significant increase in the detection of severe ...

CHICAGO – When children present with back pain, physicians want to expose them to the least amount of medical testing without missing a diagnosis. Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ...

Brain injury survivors can benefit from the Canadian Association of Nuclear Medicine (CANM)’s recent adoption, ratification and endorsement of the Guidelines for Brain Perfusion Single Photon Emission ...

Two steps involved in a SPECT scan are: Injection of a radioactive substance: An intravenous injection of a radioactive tracer will be administered and the patient has to wait for it to spread ...

August 12, 2008 — Preliminary results from studies of dedicated breast computed tomography (CT) scanners, alone and in combination with positron emission tomography (PET), were presented at the recent ...

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) scan uses computed tomography technique to trace the movement of a radioactive material injected into the body. It tracks the blood flow into tissues ...