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Barbara Kram, Editor | April 21, 2008
"For decades, nuclear medicine imaging has contributed functional assessment to the anatomical definition of the presence or absence of disease," said Alexander J. McEwan, M.D., president of SNM. "Today molecular imaging is on the way to revolutionizing patient care-by integrating information about location, structure, function and biology-leading to a package of non-invasive imaging tools with enormous potential for improving patient care and outcomes."
Co-authors of "Effect of Progenitor Cells on Myocardial Perfusion and Metabolism in Patients After Recanalizatoin of a Chronically Occluded Coronary Artery" include Henryk Barthel, Osama Sabri and Regine Kluge, Department of Nuclear Medicine; Sandra Erbs and Gerhard Schuler, Heart Center Leipzig GmbH; and Frank Emmrich, Institute of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, all with the University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; and Rainer Hambrecht, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany and Heart Center Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
About SNM-Advancing Molecular Imaging and Therapy
SNM is an international scientific and professional organization of more than 16,000 members dedicated to promoting the science, technology and practical applications of molecular and nuclear imaging to diagnose, manage and treat diseases in women, men and children. Founded more than 50 years ago, SNM continues to provide essential resources for health care practitioners and patients; publish the most prominent peer-reviewed journal in the field (The Journal of Nuclear Medicine); host the premier annual meeting for medical imaging; sponsor research grants, fellowships and awards; and train physicians, technologists, scientists, physicists, chemists and radiopharmacists in state-of-the-art imaging procedures and advances. SNM members have introduced-and continue to explore-biological and technological innovations in medicine that noninvasively investigate the molecular basis of diseases, benefiting countless generations of patients. SNM is based in Reston, Va.; additional information can be found online at http://www.snm.org.
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