Media Room
19 November 2024
The Lifecycle of Radiopharmaceuticals: From Research to Clinical Use
Radiopharmaceuticals are drugs that contain radionuclides. They are primarily used for two main purposes: diagnostic procedures and treatment assessments through imaging. The radiation detected by nuclear medicine cameras helps doctors observe and analyse how the human body functions. Additionally, they...
11 October 2024
Lemer Pax helps you fight MusculoSkeletal Disorders (MSD)
The STOP MSD product range, designed to ensure operator safety and maximum comfort, will be presented at the upcoming European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) congress, Europe’s premier annual nuclear medicine event, held from 19 to 23 October 2024 in...
26 September 2024
Radioactive waste management: for secure storage and optimised decay
Radioactive waste are radionuclide-contaminated fluids, generally coming from radioactively contaminated sinks, showers and toilets in Nuclear Medicine departments, as well as from shielded rooms used for diagnostic and therapeutic treatments. They come not only from hospitals, but also from nuclear...
29 August 2024
Comparison of injection systems for luteinized therapies: Plum 360™ pump assembly vs Theranojet®ARA
The increase in requests for luteinized therapy has led to questions about the most appropriate injection system. Lemer Pax offers a new system: the Theranojet®ARA.
The aim was to see whether or not the Lemer Pax device improved ergonomics, radiation protection or performance.
27 June 2024
RadioPharmaceutical Therapy (RPT): a major advance in cancer treatment
RadioPharmaceutical Therapy (RPT) represents a significant advance in the fight against cancer. Although this innovative technique currently accounts for only a small proportion of cancer treatments, RPT offers new perspectives for treating malignant tumours by precisely targeting cancer cells while...
24 April 2024
Lemer Pax signs a partnership for distributing ICUMedical’s Plum 360™ pump for the french nuclear medicine market
On 1 January 2024, Lemer Pax, world leader in innovation in the field of radiation protection, and ICU Medical, world leader in infusion systems, infusion consumables and intensive care products, signed a partnership for distributing the Plum 360TM pump for...
27 March 2024
Signe Reinholdt Sørensen
“If we compare with the automatic injector that we had before, the members of the medical team are now much less exposed to radiation. Indeed, in the past, we had to manually dilute all the doses of tracer received every...
8 September 2023
1st Lutetium-177 injections with the Theranojet®ARA shielded injection system at the Beaujon AP-HP hospital, Paris, France
On August 3, the Beaujon AP-HP hospital Nuclear Medicine department AP-HP (Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris), located in Clichy, in Paris (France), successfully injected its first treatments with Lutathera using the new Theranojet®ARA shielded injection system. The result of...
26 August 2023
Lemer Pax launches OSIRIS, its Lean management transformation with EliteOrga
In a context of major growth for the company, particularly in a field of activity requiring a large dose of rigour and organization, Lemer Pax decided in 2019 to start, with EliteOrga, a major organizational transformation project. These important developments,...
31 July 2023
Stephan Dewarrat
"Swiss regulations in radiation protection are such that Posijet®, the unit for preparation and automatic injection, turned out to be the best solution."
15 June 2023
Lemer Pax and CCNuclear announce the creation of Lemer Pax America
The creation of the Canadian company Lemer Pax America will be officially announced at the 35th edition of the SNMMI (Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging) in Chicago on June 24-27 by Pierre-Marie Lemer, President of Lemer Pax, and...
11 May 2023
Denis Brault
"All the restrictions made us choose the Posijet® automatic injector. Personally, I’m very pleased with it. Lemer Pax’s training and support have been excellent. The remote familiarisation feature is an added bonus for us, making us more responsive, which we really needed to be. The regular software updates also make it easy to use. "
27 April 2023
The Radiation Protection Advisor (RPA)
The immanente guarantee of radiation protection
By anticipating the risks of exposure to ionizing radiation, the Radiation Protection Advisor (RPA) applies the safety rules defined by the Labour Code and the Public Health Code and implements the means to guarantee optimal radiation protection (ALARA principle). Here at Lemer Pax, the Radiation Protection Advisor intervenes in all areas related to radiation protection (medical, industry, etc.) and brings their expertise to the development of the innovative equipment of tomorrow.
1 March 2023
Combining the increase in PET imaging patient activity and radiation protection of staff: the example of Esbjerg hospital in Denmark
In March 2019, the Nuclear Medicine department at Esbjerg Hospital, in Esbjerg, Denmark, decided to acquire a new PET/CT scanner. With the arrival of this new equipment, the service’s activity doubled, going from around 10 patients per day to just over 20. And this was just the beginning!
Major restructuring work was, therefore, necessary and the department decided to tackle, at the same time, the quality of treatment for patients and the working conditions of the medical team. Among the solutions adopted: the acquisition of a new automatic preparation and injection system!
31 October 2022
Jean-Yves Michel
“The use of two Posijet® automatic preparation and injection units in the department provides greater freedom in the allocation of the PET equipment without increasing operator exposure when preparing doses or manually injecting fluorinated radiopharmaceuticals.” To learn more, find our...
29 September 2022
EANM 2022: find our Therapy and Diagnostic solutions from Lemer Pax and Medisystem in Barcelona
This year, Lemer Pax and Medisystem are exhibiting several innovative solutions to meet the needs of their customers, one of which will be the Posijet®, our high-energy radiopharmaceutical preparer-injector in its “Theranostic” configuration!
A quick look back at this new medical approach and the adaptation of Posijet® to new uses.
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