TORONTO - Outside of the RSNA meeting, most medical imaging trade shows don't draw hordes of lay press. But this year's SNM conference was an exception as the ongoing crisis over supplies of molybdenum drew Canadian reporters eager to hear nuclear medicine's side of the story.
And the SNM was happy to oblige. The society's annual Image of the Year press conference was mobbed with Canadian journalists, giving Dr. Henry Wagner a bully pulpit to make the case for nuclear medicine's value to a larger audience before disclosing the winners of this year's award. To find out who won, and to get the latest on the molybdenum crisis, just click here.
In other news, researchers from Stony Brook University in New York presented research Tuesday on a prototype PET/MRI scanner for breast imaging. They believe the system could help more accurately classify suspicious lesions. To learn more, click here.
In other reports from the SNM show, learn about a hybrid cardiac imaging technique that combines CT angiography with SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging to improve cardiac imaging. And learn about a technique for pediatric bone scanning of soft-tissue tumors with FDG by clicking here.
Get the rest of our coverage from the SNM conference in our Molecular Imaging Digital Community by going to molecular.auntminnie.com.
