Good news for medical imaging

Good news for medical imaging

This is great for medical imaging and the Wisconsin economy. As the article states, a facility will be build that uses a greener method for making technetium-99, which is used in Single Photon Emission Tomography (SPECT). SPECT is commonly used in cardiovascular stress test among other medical images. It would also alleviate the reliance on the only 3 production facilities left: 2 in Canada and 1 in the Netherlands.

h/t Joanne Manaster

http://discovery.wisc.edu/story.cmsx?sid=20655

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