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After a rough year, PET stands to shine

by Loren Bonner, DOTmed News Online Editor | June 11, 2012
From the June 2012 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine


Some of these areas might be the brain, head and neck, and abdomen.

GE’s Discovery PET/CT 710 is geared toward high-count rate isotopes that are prevalent in research settings. But it also meets the needs of the future as these tracers become available in the F-18 versions for wider clinical use.

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The company has addressed PET/MR in a phased manner,
GE's Discovery PET/CT 690 scanner

first, by keeping the CT portion of PET/CT intact. “Our approach is to enable research in establishing the clinical utility of PET/MR today by providing a direct reference to PET/CT baseline through our TriModality solution, while providing a way in the longer term to have a simultaneous scanner with technologies that enable the next generation of PET and MR imaging to be equal or better than the key research enablers available on today’s PET/CT and MR systems independently,” says Bhatt.

Philips reports that it has a sizable install base of its PET/MR systems, the Ingenuity TF PET/MR, since it first introduced the technology in 2010.

“To give you an estimate, at the last SNM conference, we had over 500 cases being done with PET/MR. So at this point, we should have at least double that,” says Misra.

That said, PET/MR has mainly found its home in research settings. “It’s primarily customers working on translation medicine who want to push new frontiers with molecular imagining.”

In other words, PET/MR has not yet found mainstream clinical use. But that could all change if reimbursement were to kick in and the price came down low enough.

DOTmed Registered 2012 - June PET, PET/CT Companies


Names in boldface are Premium Listings.
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Robert Brait, SIEMENS, MA
Joshua Nunez, Block Imaging, MI
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Kenneth Smith, BC Technical, UT
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Ian Alpert, Tandem Medical Equipment, NY
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David Stopak, A.Imaging Solutions, AL
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Paul Zahn, Shared Medical Services, Inc., WI
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David Denholtz, Integrity Medical Systems, Inc., FL
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John Pereira, United Medical Technologies, FL
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Ronen Bechor, ElsMed Ltd. & Relaxation, Inc., FL
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Greg Kramer, C&G Technologies, Inc., IN
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Don Bogutski, Diagnostix Plus, Inc., NJ
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Todd King, KING Equipment Services, Inc., IL
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Kevin McGehee, Marquis Medical, LA
Daniel Pakuszeski, Southwestern Imaging, TX
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Kenn Matayor, Jaken Medical, Inc., CA
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Joseph Oliverio, Positron Corporation, IN
Christie Loveday, Encore Global Imaging, TN
Kevin Larcher, Larcher Medical, NC
Satrajit Misra, Philips Healthcare, MA

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