Nuclear Medicine


Innovative Collimator Improves Breast Screening with Less Radiation
Adding a variable angle slant hole (VASH) collimator to an existing breast molecular imaging system provides better contrast of cancer lesions while potentially reducing radiation doses by half, according to a new study. More...28 Jun 2016




Novel Molecular Imaging System Revealed at SNMMI 2016
A new portable hybrid molecular imaging system that combines optical and gamma imaging and can provide a multi-dimensional view of surface organs has been announced at the annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI 2016). More...21 Jun 2016

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