Guardian Technologies International of Dulles, VA, has acquired Wise Systems, a U.K.-based developer and provider of RIS/PACS. The $2.5 million cash and stock deal closed July 27. Driving the acquisition was a Web-based image management system developed

In a move aimed at improving its competitive position in computer-aided detection and enhancing its oncology product portfolio, Siemens Medical Solutions has acquired CADVision Medical Technologies. The 10-year-old R&D company, based in Jerusalem,

Fourth quarter sales by Intermagnetics General rose more than 33% in the quarter ending May 30 to $5.8 million, or 34¢ per diluted share, from $4.4 million, or 26¢ per diluted share, a year earlier. Net sales increased 57% to $59.1 million from $37.7

Agfa has received approval from the U.S. Air Force to operate its PACS technology. The company's Impax product line received a certificate of "networthiness" from the USAF by meeting guidelines defined by the Defense Information Systems Agency in

More than half of the deficiency citations dealt out by PACS acceptance testing performed by the Department of Defense on its huge Digital Imaging Network-PACS (DIN-PACS) involve problems with the radiologist's workstation, system interfaces, and the

Customers in the market for a PET/CT may soon have a new choice. The FDA is reviewing Hitachi Medical Systems' Sceptre P3, an LSO-based rotational PET scanner outfitted with a quad-slice CT. Hitachi is planning a fourth-quarter commercial release of the

Go back 30 years and you will find on the desks of otherwise sane people a rock sitting atop a block of wood inscribed with the moniker "Pet Rock." Introduced in August 1975 as a pet that made no mess and never misbehaved, the Pet Rock made a million

In less than two weeks, Siemens will unveil a commercial version of its 1T open MR system. The company is planning a 16-city road show of the product. The first stop, on July 29, will be in New York City. Siemens told DI SCAN in early May about a

GE Healthcare has agreed to distribute Confirma's CADstream, which highlights and color-codes suspicious areas of the breast, while automatically correcting MR images for patient movements. CADstream has the potential to streamline workflow with features

As Stanford's International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT, began June 23, only a few sites around the world had any experience with CT scanners generating more than 16 slices per rotation. But representatives from those luminary sites were there and

Siemens is already getting repeat business with the Axiom Artis dFC Magnetic Navigation System. Baptist Heart and Vascular Institute at Central Baptist Hospital was the first to buy the system, codeveloped by Siemens and Stereotaxis, and the institute is

Zonare Medical Systems raised $34 million in equity funding earlier this month to put toward the development of a next-generation ultrasound platform. The company's Zone Sonography technology is being groomed first for general imaging and ob/gyn.

Sales of PET and PET/CT scanners made by CTI PET Systems dropped precipitously last quarter, leading PET pioneer and part owner CTI Molecular Imaging to announce that revenues and earnings at the Knoxville, TN, company would fall well short of

The FDA has issued an approvable letter for Siemens Mammomat NovationDR, a full-field digital mammography system. The agency found that the device is approvable, pending successful FDA inspection of Siemens' manufacturing facility in Erlangen, Germany,

The rising popularity of nuclear medicine imaging has spurred several organizations to develop DICOM standards for seamless transmission of the complex dynamic images in the digital world of PACS.The Society of Nuclear Medicine DICOM working group and

PACS implementation can bring about film savings, but can film savings bring about a PACS? One academic medical center claims to have financed its PACS implementation on nothing but film savings, according to a paper presented at the May meeting of the

Good afternoon, KMart shoppers, don't miss our spring hospital PACS special in the electronics department. Buy two, get one free. It hasn't quite come to that, but anyone interested in purchasing PACS on a shoestring budget would have appreciated Paul

The scope of a marketing agreement that allows Siemens Medical Solutions to market Gamma Medica's molecular imaging animal scanner has been expanded to cover worldwide markets. The two companies began their alliance last July when Siemens obtained U.S.

The trend toward digital imaging in healthcare has forced many traditional film-based companies to reinvent themselves as purveyors of electronic data management solutions. Many radiologists now buy their PACS and RIS from vendors that previously

The sale of PET/CT scanners in the U.S. could get a boost-possibly in the months ahead and almost certainly in the long term-if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services carries through with its proposal to reimburse for the use of PET to evaluate