The Nobody Left Behind or NOBLE Registry aims to establish prostate-specific membrane antigen SPECT imaging as a cost-effective and widely available alternative to PSMA-PET.

With the help of Phoenix's advanced industrial imaging capabilities, the new entity hopes to ramp up its production of molybdenum-99.

SNMMI said V/Q scans can be increasingly incorporated as a normal part of the workup of suspected pulmonary embolism.

The collaboration with CardioNavix is expected to benefit low-volume centers, community hospitals, physician practices and outpatient imaging locations.

Pressures from payers and other groups may hamper providers, but ASNC President Randall C. Thompson, MD, said patients must always come first.

SNMMI said it is working with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the manufacturer of Cerianna to remedy the problem.

Beginning in the 1960s, the new edition traces such milestones as the invention of the Anger camera and the development of positron emission tomography.

The findings come by way of the RESCUE Trial, which included more than 1,000 participants from 44 different sites.