''Three intercontinental deals today illustrate the pressure on medical isotope supplies in the face of problems at two of the world's leading production reactors. The extended shutdown of the NRU reactor at Chalk River in Canada means a short supply of ...'

''India has joined the exclusive club of nations with superconducting cyclotron capability. On Saturday, Salt Lake-based Variable Cyclotron Centre director Bikash Sinha announced the successful completion of the Rs 100 crore project only the fifth in ...'

''An intervention that includes techniques to reduce the amount of radiation from cardiac computed tomography angiography (scanning used to diagnose coronary artery disease) was associated with decreasing patient exposure to radiation without ...'

''Conventional medical imaging devices such as x-ray, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultrasound can detect abnormal tissue. Yet they provide little insight into whether a suspicious lesion may be malignant or benign, much less how best to treat the ...'

''While minimally invasive coil treatments for those with a ruptured brain aneurysm have proved to be a more effective technique than traditional surgical operation in selected patients, the superior procedure is drastically more expensive, according to ...'

''During May and June 2009, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Colorado at Boulder will use high-tech scanners ? analogous to those used in medical ...'

''Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. today introduces two advanced multi-detector CT systems, the Aquilion® Premium edition and the Aquilion CX edition. The Aquilion Premium rounds out the company?s CT portfolio to include a product with 160-detector ...'

''This current paper (1) is part of the research aimied at developing more individualized and targeted prostate cancer radiotherapy. Recent improvement in radiation treatment outcome of prostate cancer mainly comes from radiation dose escalation ...'

''Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can serve as a very sensitive technique for detecting small tumors in the body, but it is not as good at identifying the edges of a tumor. Photoacoustic imaging tomography (PAT) is not as sensitive as MRI, but it excels ...'

''To date, more than 700 cases of SPTs have been reported in English literature. About 15% are known to present metastasis or recurrence. However, based on the conventional histopathology, it has been difficult to establish the criteria which could be ...'