Press Releases: Nuclear Medicine/PET

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Resolution Revolution: Siemens unveils world’s first high definition PET-CT, providing unprecedented clarity through entire field of view

July 20, 2007

Just as the clarity of high definition television has transformed the entertainment world, Siemens Medical Solutions is redefining the quality of molecular imaging with the introduction of high definition positron emission tomography. Siemens has unveiled HD PET, the world’s first and only high definition PET technology to offer consistently sharper and clearly defined images across the entire field of view beginning of June 2007 in the USA. More

Siemens Demonstrates World’s First System Capable of Simultaneous Imaging of the Brain by MRI and PET

May 20, 2007

In what could prove to be a turning point in diagnosis and therapy for millions of patients suffering from neurological diseases, stroke and cancer, Siemens Medical Solutions showed results of a prototype for the world’s first fully-functioning imaging system capable of performing simultaneously Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET). The first in-vivo human brain simultaneous MR-PET images were acquired in the Siemens facilities in USA. Testing of this new prototype MR-PET will start before the end of 2007. More

Advancing Personalized Medicine: Siemens to Emphasize Emerging Fields of Oncology, Neurology Biomarkers with Exclusive new State-of-the-Art Research Facility

February 7, 2007

Siemens Medical Solutions today opened the doors to a new state-of-the-art research facility dedicated exclusively to the development of molecular imaging biomarkers, which will become in vivo diagnostic tools for identifying debilitating diseases such as cancer, and neurological diseases at their earliest stages. More