Department of Radiology Hosts Recognition Ceremony for Graduating Residents and Fellows
Krystyna Barnard
June 27, 2016
The Department of Radiology recently hosted its annual graduation ceremony and reception in recognition of this year’s graduating residents and fellows.
Approximately 150 faculty, friends and family attended the event, held at the University Club of Nashville Ballroom, where they enjoyed an evening of dinner, drinks and music to celebrate eight resident and 13 fellow graduates.
Vanderbilt Nuclear Medicine Physicians Provide Key Evidence to FDA for Approval of New PET Imaging Agent
Krystyna Barnard
June 8, 2016
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a new positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agent, 68Ga-DOTATATE, as a result of key evidence provided to them by nuclear medicine physicians in the Department of Radiology.
68Ga-DOTATATE, a synthetic somatostatin analog, binds eight times more strongly than the existing imaging agent, 111In-pentetreotide, to somatostatin receptors found in neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) in adult and pediatric patients.