The MR and CT industries may be only months away from achieving record sales performances in the U.S. Second-quarter revenue and third-quarter trend analyses indicate that the sales of high-performance equipment, buoyed by rising open sales, may have

Two powerhouses in the IT healthcare industry, GE Medical Systems Information Technologies and Qwest Communications International, have struck an exclusive, multiyear technology agreement to provide clinicians at healthcare systems with secure, reliable

3-D capability promises increased surgical precisionThe first production units of Siemens’ new mobile C-arm with 3-D imaging capability will arrive in the U.S. next month. The Siemens sales force will initially target

The development of new crystal technology is crucial to the advancement of PET imaging. Executives at ADAC Laboratories are betting on GSO (gadolinium oxyorthosilicate) for their flagship PET system, Allegro.Crystals convert high-energy photons into

DR. LEMKE is a professor of computer graphics and computer-assisted medicine at Technical University in Berlin, Germany.Communication systems based on local area networks with ring topology were first developed

The digital explosion of the past decade has resulted in a publishing fallout. A number of books devoted to PACS and related technologies, written by its pioneers and early adopters, have made their way into medical libraries. Among them are the

GE Medical Systems has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a key provider of PET technology. Coincidence Technologies, however, does not make positron scanners or the cyclotrons that forge PET radiopharmaceuticals. Rather, the company makes products

GE Medical Systems has signed a broad collaborative research agreement with GlaxoSmithKline to bring clinical molecular imaging technologies into the pharmaceutical development process. Their first project will be to advance the diagnosis and treatment

PACS provider Artesian Medical will increase the size of its integration lab housed in Cassling Diagnostic Imaging’s (CDI) 50,000-square-foot ISO 9002-certified facility in Omaha, NE. As part of the reorganization, new and more proactive service

IS2 Research is a modern-day marvel, a company that makes high-quality, extraordinarily durable gamma cameras that sell for about half the price of competing models. A uniquely simple design allows the company to produce a range of systems

Three months after adopting a new name and launching a more integrated approach to its information technology businesses, Dallas-based Xtria (formerly a division of Kaneb Services) has won two major U.S. PACS contracts.Xtria was selected by Burlington,

The radiology pipeline was anything but encouraging in July, as the FDA cleared only 21 products. This was the second consecutive month that the number of 510(k) clearances dipped to around 20 (SCAN 8/8/01). Last year, the monthly numbers were in

Recession? What recession? GE Medical Systems ultrasound business achieved record growth in the first half of 2001, with sales exceeding $365 million globally. Meanwhile, the company is commercializing innovative MRI technology, installing its new

What you love most you share. Marion General Hospital shares its PACS. The 284-bed not-for-profit hospital in Marion, OH, shares its PACS with Smith Clinic, a 60-physician for-profit multispecialty group practice located across the street. Marion

Planning a PACS implementation or expansion can inspire stress in even the most confident of healthcare professionals. Activities such as phasing in filmless operations, integrating hospital and radiology information systems, expanding PACS throughout

Soft-copy workstations provide the ability to manipulate and display images—but few radiologists take advantage of it. Instead they opt for traditional views that mimic those of film and light boxes. But a study has found that by incorporating

The world’s largest manufacturer of contrast agents for gastrointestinal radiology has taken a 5% equity position in PointDx, an emerging medical technology company focused on the development of virtual colonoscopy software and structured reporting

A radiology management service organization in Houston has awarded GE Medical Systems Information Technologies an exclusive contract to provide members with application service provider support. Under the deal, GE will provide ASPs at 125 sites

Modern radiology is on the verge of creating a storage problem of mammoth proportions. Multislice CT, real-time MRI, 3-D ultrasound, and digital cardiac cath generate massive volumes of data that will be all but impossible to absorb with conventional

Speed is more important than ever in MRI. Opportunities in cardiac and brain imaging require that data be acquired rapidly. Because the most advanced applications can be accomplished only at high field, patient comfort depends on getting out of the