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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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"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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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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