July 7, 2003
During the society’s 50th annual meeting – held June 21-25, 2003 in New Orleans, LA – the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) announced that its annual “Image of the Year” distinction has been awarded to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine researchers, including Dr. Johannes Czernin and Dr. Benjamin Halpern. The award was given to the researchers for images acquired using a positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imager with 3D Lutetium Oxyorthosilicate (LSO) technology – a system developed by CPS Innovations, a joint venture of Siemens Medical Solutions and CTI Molecular Imaging, Inc. More