Medical holography developer Voxel displayed the progress it is making toward financial health at this month's Radiological Society of North America meeting in Chicago. The Laguna Hills, CA, company is close to finalizing its sale to a Florida holography More »
Acquisitions are finalized just days before start of RSNA conferenceIt went down to the wire, but Picker International and GE Medical Systems achieved their goals of acquiring Elscint's CT, nuclear medicine, and MRI business units in time for this More »
Japanese medical imaging vendor Shimadzu has become the latest MRI vendor to settle patent litigation with Fonar of Melville, NY. The two companies last month announced their settlement regarding Fonar's multiple-angle oblique (MAO) patent. Shimadzu More »
The recent publication of the 1998 version of the DICOM standard capped an eventful year for the DICOM committee (PNN 11/98). Many important new features were added, including the modality work list and More »
Michael McLean has been promoted to vice president of full-line sales at Toshiba America Medical Systems. McLean previously managed Toshiba's ultrasound business operations, a position he held about a year. He replaces John Ariatti, who left the Tustin, More »
Siemens Medical Systems this month announced an addition to its MRI product lineup for the upcoming Radiological Society of North America meeting. The work-in-progress device, OR Open, is an intraoperative MR unit that combines Siemens' open system More »
Companies work to complete purchases before RSNA meetingAs the Radiological Society of North America conference approaches, the divestiture of Israeli multimodality vendor Elscint appears to be close to completion. But industry observers may have More »
IGC calls off effort to sell scanner for clinical useIn a move that reflects the difficulties small companies face entering a mature MRI market, MR magnet supplier Intermagnetics General (IGC) of Latham, NY, opted this month to shut down its Field More »
The Federal Trade Commission has signed off on Alliance Imaging’s proposed acquisition of the mobile imaging business of American Shared Hospital Services, the companies reported last week. The firms said that the FTC had concluded its review of the More »
Company may have an edge over other digital x-ray developersThe stage is set for a wild scramble in the digital x-ray market following GE Medical Systems’ receipt of 510(k) clearance for a new digital chest x-ray system using amorphous More »
