The Society of Nuclear Medicine is no more.

On Monday, at the society's 2012 annual meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., SNM members voted to change their group's name to the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.

In a press release, George Segal, immediate past president of SNM -- or rather, SNMMI? -- said the group was inspired to change its title in order to "embrace other modalities that, like nuclear medicine, utilize the tracer principle."

Two-thirds of members present at the meeting voted for the new name, the group said.

This isn't the first reveal of the new name. In late January during a Mid-Winter Meeting, the society's House of Delegates passed, also by a two-thirds vote, an amendment to its bylaws that would allow for the adoption of "Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging."

At the time, an SNM spokeswoman told DOTmed News by e-mail that the new name would "more accurately portray where the society is and where it is heading," as it includes those who work with non-nuclear molecular imaging. Some members apparently said their schools or departments had already changed their name to include molecular imaging in the title, she said.

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