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Nanotechnologies Inc. has announced new members to its board of directors. Joining the board are former Dell vice chairman Mort Topfer, Techxas Ventures co-founder Bruce Ezell, Brian R. Smith, chairman and chief executive officer of Crossroads Systems, and Nanotechnologies Inc.'s president and CEO Gary Pankonien. Dennis Wilson, chief technology officer of Nanotechnologies Inc., will continue to be chairman of the board. . . . Thomas J. Hook, former general manager of Global Functional & Molecular Imaging at GE Medical Systems, has been name president of CTI Services Inc. and senior vice president of CTI Molecular Imaging Inc., a provider of positron emission tomography and molecular imaging equipment, radiopharmaceuticals and services.