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Diasonics showed initial success last year in refocusing its medicalimaging business on ultrasound and specialty x-ray products, followingthe sale of its magnetic resonance imaging unit to Toshiba inlate 1989. The Milpitas, CA, company lowered its

ATL is pushing its R&D throttle full forward in a bid to breakout from what it considers four-way technological parity at thetop of the high-end ultrasound field. A trio of top-level managershas been appointed to provide the administrative punch

This article is the second of a two-part series. Part one appearedin the last issue of SCAN.Kodak has been granted exclusive rights to manufacture and marketthe computed radiography phosphor plate scanning technology developedby Lumisys of

Following the precedent of computed tomography, the magnetic resonanceimaging market has become price-segmented, said Surya N. Mohapatra,vice president and general manager of Picker International's NMRdivision. There are--particularly in the U.S.--three

Picker International began shipping active-shield 1.5-tesla magneticresonance imaging systems in the fourth quarter of 1990. Threeof those units were installed before the Radiological Societyof North America meeting in November. Picker now offers the

Three former Fonar executives have joined with a fourth partnerto form Imaging Systems International of Boca Raton, FL, a magneticresonance imaging center firm. ISI's first center, North GeorgiaDiagnostic Imaging of Atlanta, opened in June, according to

E-Z-Em, the dominant supplier of barium sulfate contrast mediafor gastrointestinal imaging, agreed last week to invest a minimumof $1.1 million in the three-dimensional image processing effortsof ISG Technologies of Mississauga, Ontario. The two firms

Delays at the Food and Drug Administration have left Dornier withouta production line shock-wave lithotripter approved for sale inthe U.S. Dornier Medizintechnik of Munich has discontinued productionof its HM-4 lithotripter, while the FDA has not yet

Philips and AT&T have agreed to restructure their CommViewjoint venture for the supply of picture archiving and communicationssystems technology. Details of the new structure have not beenfinalized, said Michael P. Moakley, president and CEO of

Declining Medicare reimbursement for magnetic resonance imagingscans combined with bargain-shopping by managed-health-care groupsspells trouble for high-field MRI centers, said Leonard F. Vernon,president and CEO of Imaging Management Associates. Centers

Morgan W. Nields, chairman and CEO of Fischer Imaging, has investedconsiderable time and resources in developing business connectionsin the Soviet Union. He has traveled to that country a half-dozentimes since joining Comed, a U.S./USSR joint venture,

Tight reimbursement and improvements in low-field technology havecombined to force down the prices of magnetic resonance imagingsystems sold in Japan and Europe. Japanese MRI prices have beendeclining for at least two years, and this trend has spread