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Precision Medicine

New Nuclear Scanner Gives Doctors An Inside View Of The Body

Tomas Kellner
May 20, 2016

For millennia, doctors hoping to catch a glimpse of what’s happening inside a patient had very few options aside from cutting the body open. But that changed in 1957, when American electrical engineer Hal Anger invented the gamma camera and doctors were able to see what was going on inside of cells.

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Medical Imaging

New Production Process Could Help Break Imaging Isotope Shortage

Erin Bryant
December 21, 2015
As aging nuclear reactors require increased maintenance, and even shut down completely, the strain on their production is being felt far beyond the energy industry: inside oncology and cardiac clinics. But help is on the way.
Every year, doctors order as many as 40 million medical imaging scans that require a radioactive isotope called technetium-99m (Tc-99m). The scans help them diagnose cancer, heart disease and other serious maladies.
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