IPL to sell PET brain shield

AuntMinnie.com staff writers
May 11, 2005

Isotope Products Laboratories of Valencia, CA, has signed an agreement with Scanwell Systems of Montreal to sell that company's NeuroShield device for shielding the brain from radiation during whole-body PET studies.

NeuroShield consists of a U-shaped lead plate that attaches to the PET scanner's removable headrest. NeuroShield can attenuate some 75% of the radiation emitted from the subject's body during brain studies, thus improving the quality of PET and PET/CT images by reducing random and scattered counts, according to the companies.

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
May 12, 2005

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