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Time to Celebrate
October 6, 2008 2:56 PM by Joyce Ward
Today starts a week devoted to celebrating the contributions of nuclear medicine to the nation's health. This year the SNM has chosen the motto "Imagine the Future of Molecular Imaging, We can make a world of difference." Hopefully you have already made Read More...
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Bombarding Molybdenum
September 26, 2008 4:47 PM by Joyce Ward
With the current concerns about the molybdenum-99 shortages it was interesting to read in the 9-14 issue of Medical News Today that researchers at Delft University of technology in the Netherlands had received a patent for a unique way to producing that Read More...
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Who Set off the Radiation Monitor?
September 18, 2008 12:23 PM by Joyce Ward
I just got my copy of the JNM September issue and was looking at the "Newsline" section when the headline, "131 I Therapy Sparks Airport Evacuation", on page 51N caught my attention. According to the article, in July a Russian woman who had a 131 iodine Read More...
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"Perfect Storm" Disrupts Isotope Supply
August 28, 2008 11:52 AM by Joyce Ward
On August 26, the High Flux Reactor facility at Petten in the Netherlands announced a shutdown of their facility. According to an article in the Canada's Edmonton Sun , the facility had a technical breakdown. This normally would not have been a major Read More...
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Researchers Explore Fluorocarbon MRI Tracer Imaging
August 21, 2008 11:59 AM by Joyce Ward
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon are looking into tracing cells within the body using fluorocarbon tagging, according to a press release on Eurekalert . While MRS can be used to identify signatures of elements in the body, it is generally considered less Read More...
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Safety First
August 19, 2008 11:50 AM by Joyce Ward
The LA Times had an article today about hospitals being fined for violations that put patients in jeopardy. Although many of the fines were for nursing or surgical violations, there were a couple of things that got me thinking, because they would apply Read More...
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Do You Remember When?
August 8, 2008 10:03 AM by Joyce Ward
As I mentioned in my previous column, the 20 th anniversary of our magazine got me reminiscing about the old days in nuclear medicine. Of course, I only go back to 1984, so some of the things I have heard about were gone by the time I started. For instance, Read More...
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Where Have All the Companies Gone--Long Time Passing
August 1, 2008 2:15 PM by Joyce Ward
Those of you who are, like me, former members of the flower generation, may remember the song "Where Have all the Flowers Gone?" It started as a war protest song, written by Pete Seger, and was recorded by several folk groups such as the Kingston Trio Read More...
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Great Times and Good Deeds in New Orleans
June 27, 2008 1:51 PM by Joyce Ward
New Orleans put on its best face for the technologists, physicians and scientists attending the annual SNM conference June 14-18. In return, SNM and SNMTS members gave a bit of their time and their blood to the city. Coming into New Orleans, it looked Read More...
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No Hope for MAPLE
May 21, 2008 12:53 PM by Joyce Ward
There was bad news out of Canada last week when Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, a Crown corporation announced it was abandoning development of its two MAPLE medical-isotope reactors Ontario. The company had spent hundreds of millions of dollars in developing Read More...
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Dirtier than a Toilet?
May 15, 2008 12:01 PM by Joyce Ward
Have you looked at your keyboard lately? I usually don't, unless I accidentally spill something on it. Then I read in an article on ABC News about a study by a microbiologist in the United Kingdom that showed that the typical office keyboard had contamination Read More...
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