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If you have a SPECT-only camera and wish you could generate attenuation maps as good as those done with CT, your wish may soon be granted. Using a deep learning technique to generate attenuation maps, researchers from Yale University recently published their findings in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Biology. They reported this new technique produced attenuation images consistent with ground-truth CT based attenuation maps. If applied to existing SPECT-only cameras for attenuation map generation, this new technique could eliminate or at least delay the acquisition of a hybrid SPECT/CT device saving badly needed capital and time.

Like so many trade and professional organizations confronted with the COVID-19 virus pandemic, the SNMMI has moved to conduct its annual meeting online – a big change in the way of doing business for the Society. Considering the need for their members – all essential health care workers – to be at their practices rather than at a meeting in some distant location, we applaud the move by the SNMMI. With so many conferences canceling this year, we wonder when the air clears and the pandemic is under control if professional association meetings will turn to an online venue and