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AjitOur very dear friend and colleague, Prof. Dr. Ajit Kumar Padhy, passed away suddenly on the 22nd of August 2013 after suffering from a massive heart attack.

Prof Padhy was a Senior Consultant in the Singapore General Hospital, Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET since September 2005. Prior to that, he was the Head of Nuclear Medicine, IAEA, in the Division of Human Health from 1997 to 2004, and he was Faculty of Nuclear Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India since the 1970’s.

Ga-68-labeled somatostatin analogs are important imaging agents to detect and manage neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). The SNMMI formed the 68Ga Users Group to advance the use of these imaging agents in the US. Members of the Users Group developed harmonized release criteria, an imaging manual, generic data collection forms and a draft informed consent form to aid the community in establishing investigator-sponsored trials. In October 2013, the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

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For the second year in a row, NorCal CarciNET Community and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) held a patient education day during the SNMMI's Annual Meeting. The program took place on June 8th and began with three (3) general lectures about the definition of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, safety of nuclear medicine, the value of patient and physician partnerships in care management. The afternoon concluded with breakout sessions focused on hot topics in

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