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- Nuclear Pharmacy Website Gets New
Look
- The website at
http://nuclearpharmacy.uams.edu is sporting a new look.
The original website was designed in 1995 and it was past due for a
fresh new design. All the same information is contained in the
updated site. Your input is always needed to make sure that we
have up-to-date information, please pass along any comments or
corrections to
NLHilliard@uams.edu
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- APhA Calls for Your Input
- Nuclear pharmacy has benefited
from many individuals that have dedicated their time and energy to
our specialty practice. You have the opportunity to honor
these individuals by nominating them for APhA awards. Some of
these awards include, APhA Fellow, Award of Merit, and the
Distinguished Achievement in Nuclear Pharmacy Practice. For
more information
view the nomination guidebook and make your nomination by
September 15th. It is also time to elect new officers for
APhA. APhA members should receive an electronic or paper
ballot very soon. We are privileged to have outstanding
candidates running for the nuclear pharmacy section offices:
Chair-Elect: Michele Beauvais & Richard Fejka;
- Member-at-Large: Linda Goosen & Mark
Soffing. Nuclear pharmacy will also be guaranteed a position
on the APPM Executive Committee with Nicki Hilliard and Duann
Vanderslice placed in nomination! Please remember to cast your
ballot by October 15.
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- Inventor of CT Scanner Dies at 84
- Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield, who won
the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine for inventing computed axial
tomography, died Aug. 12 at age 84. Hounsfield, an electrical
engineer from England, conceived the idea for the CAT scanner in
1967 and the first clinical scans were made in 1972.
To read his autobiography...
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Sept. 4-9 |
FIP Annual Meeting,
New Orleans, LA |
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Sept. 4-8 |
European
Nuclear Medicine Meeting, Helsinki, Finland |
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Sept. 9-12 |
Third Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging
St. Louis, Missouri |
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Sept. 10-12 |
Southeastern Chapter Meeting
Clearwater Beach, Florida |
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Sept. 30-Oct 2 |
ASNC Annual Meeting, Clearwater, FL |
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Oct. 2 |
Board Certification Examination |
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Oct. 3-9 |
Nuclear
Medicine Week |
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Oct. 8-10 |
Missouri Valley Chapter
SNM, Lake of the Ozarks, MO |
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Oct. 15 |
Deadline for voting in APhA
Elections |
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Oct. 16 |
Deadline for APhA Poster Abstracts |
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Oct. 22-24 |
Northeast Regional Meeting, SNM,
Stanford, CT |
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April 1-5 |
APhA 2005 Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL |
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All
nuclear pharmacists are familiar with the use of
Strontium-89 for bone pain palliation.
However, did you know that stable strontium has
several other uses? Volatile strontium salts
ignite spontaneously in the air and impart a
beautiful crimson color to pyrotechnics and flares. Sr is also used in producing ferrite magnets and
in refining zinc. The major use for strontium
at present is in producing glass for color
television picture tubes.
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A 66 year old patient with biopsy of
right lung mass demonstrating findings consistent with a
neuroendocrine tumor. The patient was referred to nuclear
medicine for an OctreoScan study.
Continued....
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