In mid October GE HealthCare released an Urgent Field Safety Notice (Ref #40909) advising customers to immediately stop using select Nuclear Medicine systems that are past their End of Guaranteed Service. The alert follows reports that older, unsupported systems may have been transported or relocated without proper detector support, which could place stress on the detector mounts – and in […]
Barco is retiring MediCal QAWeb software moving towards a new solution; QAWeb Enterprise. In their words “The evolution proves that centralized; remote management is the future for managing diagnostic displays in healthcare organizations. It helps PACS and IT managers save time and costs, and it doesn’t interrupt the clinicians who work with the monitors.” […]
The Central Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (CCSMMI) will honor Michelle (Shelli) L. Kritzman, of Medical Physics Consultants with the presentation of the Steven M. Pinsky Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor the CCSNMMI can bestow upon a member. The Distinguished Service Award, or Gold Medal, will be presented […]
Magnetic Resonance Imaging can be very tricky these days with a dynamic environment of revolutionary technology. What is MR compatible? What is MR safe? The answer can be completely different depending on the age or magnetic field strength of your scanner(s)! How much time and effort does your team need to dedicate to determining device […]
Recently one of MPC’s illustrious physicists (Sharon Updike, MS, DABR) was honored at the spring meeting of the Central Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (CCSMMI). Sharon was presented with the Steven M. Pinsky Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor the CCSNMMI can bestow upon a member. This distinguished service […]
What an exciting time to be involved in nuclear medicine. After 20 plus years of mostly the same products and radioisotopes being utilized in nuclear medicine a whole new group of products and radioisotopes have been or are in the process of being approved by the FDA. While some of these products have been used […]
Eighteen months ago the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) developed a task force to monitor and provide guidance to the imaging community with respect to COVID-19 infections manifesting in various imaging modalities, primarily FDG PET/CT or PET/MR. With the most recent variant, omicron, an unusual imaging pattern has been observed in the […]
In the June issue of ACR’s Quality and Safety eNews, it was announced the ACR MRI Accreditation Program (MRAP) has developed a medium-sized phantom. ACR’s senior advisor for medical physics also shared important details about the medium phantom with the medical physics community in the March-April issue of the AAPM Newsletter (see page 25). The […]
Did you know the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) has developed a full program to assist your team in transitioning to the discontinuation of routine shielding of patient gonads? When you decide the time is right, visit the AAPM CARES site for a full set of resources including training modules (with credit available) […]
Information Notice 2021-02: Recent Issues Associated with Monitoring Occupational Exposure to Radiation From Licensed and Unlicensed Radiation Sources was released on August 4, 2021. This IN describes recurring findings from NRC inspections where licensees were only monitoring dosimetry reports for high exposures. Several instances were observed where users were not wearing their badges correctly, or […]
