NRC COVID-19 Public Meeting Announcement
Hello out there! We at MPC hope you all are doing well while navigating this new environment. This public meeting announcement came across our desk this morning so we thought we would share with our...
View ArticleImportant Safety Notification Regarding Patients Undergoing MRI Exams
On behalf of the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA*) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) equipment manufacturers MPC is posting this message to assist in getting the word out. Please feel...
View ArticleSNMMI Statement: The Effect of COVID-19 Vaccination on FDG PET/CT
March 30, 2021 FDG-avid reactive lymphadenopathy on PET/CT has been reported in patients following COVID-19 vaccinations.1 Reactive lymphadenopathy has been reported in up to 16% of the patients...
View ArticleACR Announces ACRedit Plus
The American College of Radiology will soon release ACRedit Plus, an updated accreditation database with a user-friendly interface and enhanced features making imaging accreditation more streamlined....
View ArticleNRC Publishes Information Notice (IN) Regarding Exposure to Radiation
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...
View ArticleNeed Help Deciding to Discontinue Routine Shielding of Patient Gonads?
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?...
View ArticleDo I Need to Purchase a Medium Sized MR Phantom?
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...
View ArticleSNMMI warns of Omicron’s impact on PET/CT scans
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...
View ArticleRadium-223, Lutetium -177, Gallium-68, Copper-64, Actinium-225, Yttrium-90,...
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...
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MPC Employee Receives Prestigious Award
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)....
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