SPECT in Medical News

Digirad to Introduce New Clinical Standard for Cardiac SPECT

POWAY, Calif., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Digirad Corporation (Nasdaq: DRAD ), a leading provider of medical diagnostic imaging systems and services to physicians' offices, hospitals and imaging centers, will showcase its latest work-in-progress during ACC.08, the American College of C...

PET can help guide treatment decisions for a common pediatric cancer

...jor pediatric cancer institutions were reviewed. PET was used in conjunction with localization computerized tomography (CT) scans, and MIBG planar and spect imaging were combined. The study shows that for stage 1 and stage 2 neuroblastoma patients, FDG-PET depicted more primary or residual neuroblastoma, a...

Calcium Scan of Arteries Helps Spot Big Trouble

...s problems, a new German study indicates. "The combination of myocardial spect and coronary artery calcium scoring could help identify those who are at hi...r the diagnosis of coronary artery disease or in combination with a regular spect perfusion scan," he said. The calcium scan results could help guide trea...

High Calcium Level in Arteries May Signal Serious Heart Attack Risk

... scoring would lend additional prognostic value to spect findings in patients with known, stable CAD. ...ent coronary artery calcium scoring in addition to spect myocardial perfusion imaging. Over a median period...sudden cardiac death, and adds prognostic value to spect findings," said co-author Christopher Uebleis...

High calcium level in arteries may signal serious heart attack risk

... scoring would lend additional prognostic value to spect findings in patients with known, stable CAD. F...ent coronary artery calcium scoring in addition to spect myocardial perfusion imaging. Over a median period...sudden cardiac death, and adds prognostic value to spect findings," said co-author Christopher Uebleis, M.D...

SPECT provides high-quality images of small tumors

...specified direction are allowed throughare used in spect because it is not yet possible to focus radiation ...However, researchers have had to make tradeoffs in spect image quality, especially in imaging very small tu...all tumors." Researchers have established that spect image quality generally improves when using collim...

Symbia.net - Hotspot for Remote Access

...s Healthcare will highlight Symbia.net*, the new client-server solution for spect and SPECT-CT imaging applications for anytime, anywhere processing and read...asy installation, operation and integration. It will work with any existing spect or SPECT-CT system, RIS and PACS infrastructure. Image uploads to the serve...

Siemens Makes Innovation Accessible with Comprehensive Molecular Imaging Solutions

...e communities. Siemens Symbia(R) family of spect and SPECT-CT scanners is flexible enough to meet t...T are economical yet powerful points of entry into spect and SPECT-CT imaging for facilities that currently... in Toronto include a new thin-client solution for spect systems, Symbia(R).net. This new application allow...

Mangos Honored with 6 HMR Awards

...rint advertising, sales materials and an animated video, demonstrates why quicker, more accurate data acquisition is the smart choice when it comes to spect imaging. HMR also gave a gold award to an innovative trade show "sculpture garden" of larger than life endoscopy devices, which Mangos created fo...

VisEn Medical Launches Expanded FMT 2500(TM) Imaging Platforms at AACR Meeting

...gistration and Data Fusion Between FMT and CT, MR, spect and PET BEDFORD, Mass., April 20 /PRNewswire/...ng results from complementary microCT, PET, MR and spect platforms. The announcements were made during the... both FMT and a second modality including MRI, CT, spect or PET. This resulting integration of quantified ...

Siemens Highlights Cardiology Excellence from Prevention to Follow-up at ACC 2009

...emens highlights its portfolio of state-of-the-art, award-winning Symbia(R) spect and SPECT-CT scanners. A new generation of HD detector, the Symbia TruePoin... the most comfortable chair, the most appealing colors and state-of-the-art spect technology to bring together the most innovative nuclear cardiology system....

Digirad Receives 510(k) for Cardius X-ACT Rapid Cardiac SPECT/VCT Imager

...transmission maps improving the overall quality of spect studies. The X-ACT attenuation correction system o...ith nSPEED(R) software allows the combined cardiac spect emission and transmission acquisitions to be perfo...nd raises the standard in the industry for overall spect system performance. Digirad is working with a...

ADD-care -- A Natural, Homeopathic Alternative Reducing Symptoms Related to Attention Deficit Disorder

...ectively manage the symptoms consistent with ADD without the use of stimulants, but ADD-care is the only product to deliver on this claim. In fact, in spect (Single Photon Emission Tomography) scans, administered by the Amen Clinic, show a head-to-head comparison of the brain's surface with the use of ADD-...

Cardiac imaging highlighted at Biennial ICNC-9

...odalities will be featured including nuclear cardiology techniques (such as spect and PET), cardiac computed tomography (CT), cardiac MR, and echocardiograph...ed to the emergency department with acute chest pain, and the comparison of spect and PET assessments of myocardial perfusion. Such a technologically orie...

Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards $1.9 Million for Development of Non-Invasive Neuroimaging Techniques in Living Brain

...th Marek, MD, Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders, New Haven, Connecticut, and Omar El-Agnaf, PhD, United Arab Emirates University In Vivo spect Imaging of Synuclein Aggregation with Morphology-specific Antibody-based Ligands Michael Sierks, PhD, Arizona State University, Tempe , Arizona ...

Molecular imaging enables earlier, individualized treatment of thyroid cancer

...iodine therapy. Afterwards, a SPECT-CT camera was rotated around the patients at a variety of angles to capture where the radioactivity was occurring. spect imaging can locate cells in the body that are not behaving normally, but does not provide the detailed, X-ray-like images that CT imaging can. The hyb...

Thinking Systems Corporation Announces Integration of Its ThinkingPACS(TM) for Molecular Imaging Into Fujifilm's Synapse(R) PACS

... imaging modalities to their centralized Fujifilm Synapse PACS," added Wang. "Moreover, Thinking Systems' plug-in allows clinicians to perform cardiac spect quantification, PET-CT fusion, SPECT-CT fusion, and general nuclear medicine processing and review, on any computer running Synapse workstation client...

Open cancer surgery set to become a thing of the past

...ls, but a version for humans is in the design phase. The diagnosis and treatment of cancer could, according to Beekman, be greatly improved by sharper spect images of patients. Various tracers mean that metastases, for example, are visible more quickly. We also hope that the effectiveness of chemotherapy c...

Digirad Corporation Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for nSPEED(R) Reconstruction Software for Improved Image Quality in Less Time With Less Radiation

...et Imaging Systems Using New Software That Enables spect Procedures That Meet New ASNC Techn...with parallel and non-parallel hole collimators. spect (single photon emission computed tomography) syste... dedicated cardiac systems can now perform cardiac spect imaging procedures in as little as three minutes o...

Cancer research highlights

...llows subjects to lie prone while both a dedicated spect and CT scan are taken of the breast..." MORE DETAI...llows subjects to lie prone while both a dedicated spect and CT scan are taken of the breast. Because these...a two-dimensional mammography. To generate the spect image, the nuclear medicine technologist injects t...

LUMEDX Introduces Next Generation Cardiology PACS Solution

...cility requires: anywhere in the hospital and throughout the network * Imaging for multiple clinical areas -- Cath, Echo, Nuclear, CT MR, PET CT and spect -- at one workstation * Real-time access to images from any connected location, onsite or off * Advanced, integrated analysis tools: Left ventricl...

New System Devised To Guide Doctors Treating Patients With Symptomatic Myocardial Bridging

...ptoms, such as palpitations and fatigue; or no symptoms. They evaluated results from non-invasive tests, such as EKGs,exercise stress tests or nuclear spect scans (Thallium 201 scintigraphy in single photon emission computer tomography), angiograms and invasive tests measuring different hemodynamic paramet...

New system devised to guide doctors treating patients with symptomatic myocardial bridging

...toms, such as palpitations and fatigue; or no symptoms. They evaluated results from non-invasive tests, such as EKGs, exercise stress tests or nuclear spect scans (Thallium 201 scintigraphy in single photon emission computer tomography), angiograms and invasive tests measuring different hemodynamic paramet...

Siemens Showcases Innovative Leadership in Molecular Imaging at SNM 2008

...est technology, HD-PET, as well as new features in spect imaging and imaging biomarker developments. (Log...aging. The newest addition to the Symbia family of spect and SPECT-CT imaging systems, Symbia E provides users with a high-quality spect imager that can lead to improved clinical confiden...

SNM hosts 55th Annual Meeting of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Research

...cardiology and oncology fields has the potential to directly affect the future of patient care. Notable topics to be discussed include the use of PET, spect and other forms of imaging to: Detect and diagnose Alzheimers disease and other dementias; Predict sudden cardiac death; View spinal cord i...

Researchers make case for standardized analysis of cardiac imaging

...ated high-performance system for analyzing cardiac spect (three dimensional) imaging. spect stands for single photon emission computed tomogra...ed in such cardiac-related diagnostics. Cardiac spect is performed in conjunction with stress testing to...

Europe to tackle brain disorder research by linking industry, academia

...sms in chemistry, radio-chemistry, in vivo modelling, and above all PET and spect scanning, the project would exploit recent advances both in PET (Positron Emission Tomography), and spect (Single Photon Emission Computer Tomography), enabling metabolic activity s...

COURAGE Sub-study: PCI Outperforms Drugs-Only

...ding confirms cardiologists' general understanding of heart disease -- that significant ischemia is not in a patient's best long- term interests. The spect images, which enable physicians to assess the blood flow to the heart, showed that some patients had a very significant reduction in ischemia (more th...

Inaccuracies in Cardiac PET-CT Scanning

...al or pure PET without the CT component is less subject to this problem. However, Gould cautioned: Alternative non-invasive technologies such standard spect nuclear cardiac imaging and CT angiography have been proven to have comparable false positive results for different reasons. Pure PET or PET-...

Cataplexy During Status Cataplecticus Resembles REM Sleep

...man underwent a 99mTc-ethylcysteinate dimmer brain spect during an episode of cataplexy. This image was compared with her brain spect during an intervening asymptomatic period. Subtraction spect coregistered to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-d...

Relationship Between Delirium and Dementia

...s in the brain following episodes of delirium and thereby investigate the mechanisms and networks involved in its onset and consequences. Use of spect scanning to assess cerebral perfusion changes in patients with delirium. Led by Tamara Fong, MD, of BIDMC’s Department of Neurology, this paper descri...

Isotopes For Cancer Treatment In India

... of a modern cyclotron based proton therapy facility for cancer treatment in India. High intense beam of 30 MeV protons will be used to produce spect (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) isotopes such as Gallium-67, Indium-111, Iodine-123, Thallium-201, for the first time in the country. ...

SPECT Can Help Predict Treatment Outcome In Patients With Low Back Pain

... all patients. Patients with negative reports from spect can be spared from receiving the injections. These...ies; group A and B. Group A participants underwent spect examination prior to the scheduled facet injection...malities. Group A patients, who had positive spect results were given lumbar injections based on the ...

Chest Pain Can Be Identified By New Tracer Chemical 30 Hours After Pain Relief

... study, known by the brand name Zemiva, links a fatty acid to a radioisotope which is injected in the patient. The researchers used a technique called spect (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) to evaluate the tracer in this study. The discovery may help physicians in emergency rooms and in the...

New insight for dopamine transporter

... records of 96 people and had cleared them from any neurological or psychological disorders, alcohol or substance dependence. The researchers had used spect imaging to find out the levels of dopamine transporter availability and found out the dopamine transporter genotypes for the study. The research ...