SNMMI 2014: Welcome montage

ST. LOUIS--As the weekend opening of the 61st Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) Annual Meeting sunsets, three more days full of meetings, presentations and exhibitions approach. SNMMI has posted a photo-video montage of highlights and attendee interviews from the first two days of the conference happening now in St. Louis at the America's Center campus.

See the Society-hosted snapshots from the first receptions, including the welcome reception in the exhibitor's hall and a private reception honoring radiochemist Michael J. Welsh, PhD, as well as images from the headlining plenary session with author and journalist Jonathan Alter.

 

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