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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.