Molecular Imaging and the University of California, San Diego, have signed definitive agreements to open and operate a PET imaging services center. UCSD School of Medicine’s radiology faculty will provide all clinical patient support services at the facility, which will be known as the University of California, San Diego Center for Molecular Imaging.
The center will serve the UCSD Healthcare patient population, as well as the greater San Diego metropolitan area, according to San Diego-based Molecular Imaging. UCSD and Molecular Imaging plan to upgrade the site’s current PET scanner to a PET/CT unit in the near future, and also hope to serve San Diego’s research and biotechnology companies via a planned acquisition of a MicroPET imaging system for clinical research.
In related developments, a Molecular Imaging subsidiary has acquired a cyclotron facility, which is also located at the site of UCSD Center for Molecular Imaging location. Molecular Imaging will manage the business operations of the cyclotron, which provides FDG production capabilities. The firm and UCSD said they plan to collaborate in future research programs to develop other radioisotopes for use in neuroscience and cardiology.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
August 22, 2003
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