''Nuclear Medicine Professionals, Inc. (NMPI) announces the acquisition and launch of its fifth portable nuclear camera. The size of NMPI's fleet of mobile cardiac imaging units has increased 40% in 2009 alone. According to NMPI President John ...'

'' A team of Brookhaven and Argonne National Laboratory researchers has demonstrated a reliable path for sculpting an intricate x-ray focusing lens out of diamond. Their technique, which was published in the January 2009 edition of the Journal of ...'

''The tubes that power X-ray machines are shrinking, improving the clarity and detail of their Superman-like vision. A team of nanomaterial scientists, medical physicists, and cancer biologists at the University of North Carolina has developed new ...'

''SNM and a coalition of eight other organizations have issued a white paper urging Congress to take steps to maintain adequate supplies of Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), a radioactive substance that is the basis for a common medical isotope used in more than 80 ...'

'' YXLON International, a leading provider of industrial X-ray inspection systems and computed tomography solutions for the industrial, non-destructive testing of materials, takes pride in the successful market launch of its new standard solution for ...'

''IRIS QA, LLC, a leader in the development of software based analysis tools for the CT, MR and NM imaging systems, announces the launch of a new Nuclear Medicine (NM) Took Kit application which provides a simple windows based interface that supports ...'

''TeraRecon, Inc. (www.terarecon.com),a leader in advanced visualization and decision support solutions for medical imaging and a premier partner of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), and Agfa HealthCare released the first cardiac ...'

''Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world's most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminium' previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real ...'

''The outgoing director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Dr Mohammed ElBaradei, has praised South Africa for making 'the right choice' regarding nuclear power, by scrapping its nuclear weapons and focusing on the peaceful uses of ...'

''Proton therapy -- which uses beams of the subatomic particles to treat cancer -- is a hot topic at this year's American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting, which takes place from July 26 - 30 in Anaheim, CA. Ways to make the ...'