A team of radiologists and neurologists at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland are enrolling patients with suspected early-stage Alzheimer’s disease in a study designed to determine if Amyvid can identify amyloid plaques via PET or MRI. Read more about the research by clicking the link below.

While healthcare reform has been slowly evolving as a result of many acts of Congress during the past decade, it is the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), that is driving major changes in healthcare coverage, the economics of the medical industry and quality of care. The latter is being carried by a series of reporting and incentive programs that have a direct impact on the practice of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, according to a review published March 1 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology.

The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) announced today that the Computed Tomography (CT) Nomenclature Working Group, led by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), has received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) Director’s Special Citation Award for developing CT imaging radiation safety instructional materials through a collaboration of end-users, CT manufacturers and the FDA. The award is MITA’s second recognition from the FDA.

Image-guided brachytherapy could deliver targeted high doses of radiotherapy while sparing cervical cancer patients from serious side effects, according to preliminary findings presented in April at the 2nd ESTRO Forum in Geneva.

The American Cancer Society celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding in May.

African American men experience longer prostate cancer treatment delays than Caucasian men, according to a study published online May 28 in Cancer.

Cerebral blood flow (CBF) is an emerging indication of Alzheimer’s pathology and dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) MRI may be an ideal modality to track CBF in high-risk patients with mild cognitive impairment, as well as those already diagnosed with the disease, according to a study published in the June issue of Academic Radiology.

SPECT/CT using high-resolution CT detector technology has been found to increase the diagnostic capabilities of SPECT when used to detect diseased bone, including osteomyelitis and other peripheral skeletal disease, and at a lower cost than high-resolution multi-detector CT, according to a study published May 23 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.