Dear AuntMinnie Member,
Our coverage of the just-concluded Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) meeting produced some of the most-read articles on AuntMinnie.com for the week.
Topping the list of popular articles was a story on how FDG-PET scans were used by researchers to discover that people with mild cognitive impairment who were taking lipophilic statins may have a higher risk of developing dementia.
As always, our story on the SNMMI's Image of the Year generated interest. This year's award went to a group of German researchers for their series of FDG-PET images that showed how people with COVID-19 experienced long-term neurological changes.
Other important stories from SNMMI 2021 included an article on clinical results for a new piflufolastat F-18 radiotracer for prostate cancer, a prototype vest that can be worn by patients to monitor radiation dose to organs during radionuclide therapy, and the victories (and losses) experienced on the regulatory front by the nuclear medicine and molecular imaging community over the past year.
Be sure to visit our Molecular Imaging Community for more news from SNMMI 2021, and be sure to come back in the coming weeks for follow-up coverage from the show.
What else found favor with our readers this week besides nuclear medicine? They were interested in an article in our Ultrasound Community on wide variation in cash prices for ultrasound scans around the U.S., as well as additional information on how to handle lymph node swelling that appears on imaging exams after COVID-19 vaccination.
