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The U.S. Department of Energy wants to create a domestic sourcefor isotopes, both stable and radioactive. Witnesses at a Congressionalhearing on Aug. 12, however, criticized the DOE's efforts as inadequate. Nuclear medicine's dependence on a single

Nuclear medicine averted a crisis last month when workers at theworld's main source of the raw material for technetium-99m settledcontract negotiations hours before a strike deadline. A laborwalkout would have caused a major shortage of the most

Syncor International has filed a petition with the Food and DrugAdministration in a move related to the agency's review of radiopharmaceuticalsfor positron emission computed tomography.Syncor, headquartered in Chatsworth, CA, operates 94 nuclear

Regulatory restrictions in the U.S. and a slow-to-start market for single-photon emission computed tomography brain imaging have combined to cut off supplies of one of the two approved SPECT brain imaging agents. To their consternation, nuclear medicine

ADAC Laboratories is riding high on sales of its Genesys SPECTsystems and Pegasys nuclear medicine workstation. The medicalimaging vendor, located in Milpitas, CA, will use this momentumto boost its business outside the U.S. and transfer R&D

An industry of protest has grown up around the five-year-old GEboycott over the company's involvement in nuclear weapons production.Infact, the Boston-based support group for the boycott, receivednationwide publicity last month when its film on GE,

Sopha Medical of Buc, France, has positioned itself to reproducein other medical imaging modalities the targeted R&D and marketingapproach that has proved successful in nuclear medicine, saidDr. Maurice Soustiel, president and CEO. The industrial

ADAC Laboratories claimed at the RSNA meeting last month to havegrown from the third-largest supplier of SPECT cameras in theU.S. to first place in 1991. According to ADAC's analysis of theU.S. SPECT market, the top camera suppliers after itself are

Two different approaches to the nuclear SPECT camera market wereon display at the RSNA meeting last month. There was some debateat the show over the benefits of dedicated versus general-purposenuclear cameras. GE offered a fixed-detector dual-head SPECT

With approval of monoclonal antibody-based radiopharmaceuticalsproceeding faster in Europe than in the U.S., market prospectsfor equipment using these targeted nuclear medicine agents arealso more immediate in that region. Care Wise Medical Products of

Philips Medical Systems has halted manufacture of nuclear medicineimaging systems to concentrate on better business prospects inother modalities. The firm will focus on MRI, ultrasound, CT,x-ray, and radiation therapy, according to Hans van Bree,

DataView, a three-year-old teleradiology firm and nuclear medicineremanufacturer based in Tucker, GA, is attempting to build aninternational medical imaging reading and advisory service. The network will focus on China/U.S. communications, accordingto

Initiation of dual-head single-photon emission computed tomographycamera sales this year will boost revenues in the nuclear marketby about 10%, predicted James L. Besett, general manager of Picker'snuclear medicine division. Unit sales will remain fairly

Nuclear medicine vendor Trionix has always maintained a strongtechnological relationship with Sun Microsystems. Sun computerprocessing technology is built into the firm's high-end triple-and dual-detector SPECT cameras, the Triad and the Biad. The

ADAC Laboratories hopes to gain market leadership in nuclear medicineby 1994. Coming from a vendor that saw nuclear medicine revenuesslide 30% last year, that spells confidence. Overtaking Siemens,current nuclear leader, represents a major hurdle. To

Dynamic volumetric SPECT acquisition has been made possible throughthe application of slip-ring technology to nuclear medicine. Elscintintroduced Apex Helix, a continuously rotating dual-head camera,at the Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting in

Iain Stark, former president of the North American subsidiaryof Scottish gamma camera manufacturer Scintronix (SCAN 12/28/88),has invented an innovative "non-Anger" nuclear medicinecamera. Stark lined up Canadian venture capital last year to

Summit Nuclear, a unit of Summit World Trade, has formed a businesspartnership with IBM. The IBM RS/6000 workstation serves as thecenterpiece of a nuclear medicine image and information network,called Vision, which was developed internally by Summit.

Some observers at the Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting in Cincinnatilast month were hopeful that the first monoclonal antibody imagingagents might receive Food and Drug Administration approval thissummer. Hope is becoming reality more quickly in

Summit World Trade changed the name of its nuclear medicine equipmentcompany from Spectrum Medical Systems to Summit Nuclear in January.Summit has also reassigned many of its sales representatives,who had been handling sales for Sopha Medical Systems, to

Elscint is readying a nuclear medicine patent infringement suitagainst Sopha Medical of France and its U.S. subsidiary, SophaMedical Systems of Columbia, MD. While Sopha executives are notcertain what specific charges are being made, they maintain

The Food and Drug Administration has a habit of approving drugsat the end of the year. An FDA panel had advised a marketing go-aheadfor CardioTec and Cardiolite, technetium-labeled nuclear cardiacimaging agents offered by Squibb and Du Pont,

For the past 10 years I have been lecturing on America's Radiation Phobia. Obviously, I am not doing a good job, because it is growing.