Israeli company developing large-field gamma ray detectorsImarad Imaging Systems came up a winner June 5 with the simultaneous announcement that Siemens and GE had each bought minority shares in the privately held Israeli CZT detector

Companies say patients are the ones hurt by rulesDespite the looming deadline, contrast media companies still hope to persuade the Health Care Financing Administration that contrast media is a valuable imaging device worthy of its own codes

At this month’s Society of Echocardiography meeting in Chicago, GE Medical Systems showed a new cardiovascular ultrasound system named the Vivid FiVe. GE officials said this is the first ultrasound system on the market to offer a myocardial

GE Medical Systems will add another Web site to its list of online projects that inform consumers about products or are designed for e-commerce. The new program, called Direct Services, aims to reduce the costs of servicing biomedical and imaging

Multimodality fusion imaging dominates SNM showThe concept of fusion imaging is new enough that the industry has yet to sort out the acronyms, but this month’s Society of Nuclear Medicine show in St. Louis made it clear combined

SCAR meeting highlights need to bring images to desktop, bedside Debates over risks of compression resurface Will radiologists and referring physicians one day use personal digital assistants (PDAs) to review images and update reports

Cedara acquisition of Dicomit expands modality offerings Software firms see 3-D as next wave in ultrasound Cedara Software, a leading medical imaging and PACS platform developer and supplier, has rounded out its modality offerings by

Hitachi Medical has extended its commitment to Merge Technologies' MergeCOM-3 software and DICOM development support. Hitachi is using this technology and support to convert proprietary image data within its medical imaging products to the DICOM

Vidar Systems has finalized agreements with PACS vendors Cemax-Icon, GE Medical Systems, Marconi Medical Systems, Mitra Imaging, and Siemens Medical Systems that ensure the distribution of Vidar's DiagnosticPro and Sierra film digitizers as part

Management changes proliferate among major PACS vendors Dot-coms lure industry veterans Internet start-ups are wreaking havoc on upper management at several major PACS companies. One of the latest to leave this industry for seemingly

PACS industry embraces ASPs as key to better market penetration Partnerships abound as first customers ‘go live' Some healthcare industry observers are already calling this the year of the application service provider (ASP), and

Software firms see 3-D as next wave in ultrasoundCedara Software, a leading medical imaging and PACS platform developer and supplier, has rounded out its modality offerings by purchasing Dicomit, a supplier of ultrasound systems and DICOM

Integration of magnet and components in progressThe pieces of Siemens' 1-tesla open MRI system are being put together this summer, as the still-unnamed scanner nears its scheduled product launch at the next RSNA meeting in November. Siemens

Medical device suppliers hope reform jump-starts industryAs healthcare providers and insurance companies work this summer to reorganize the German healthcare system, medical device manufacturers hope the end results reverse years of sluggish

Products may be optimized for cranial or cardiac imaging Philips Medical Systems hopes to have a 3-tesla MRI scanner in production by the end of next year. The first such system, now being built at the company's Netherlands factory, is

Deal opens door to bone densitometry and dedicated MRI GE Medical Systems has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lunar of Madison, WI. The acquisition, announced June 2 and scheduled to close within 60 to 90 days, promises to transform

Scanner will be the most powerful in Europe Marconi Medical Systems has delivered a very high field, whole-body MR scanner to University College of London as part of a five-year research collaboration agreement. The device will help an

ATL Ultrasound will be able to bundle sales of the SonoSite 180 handheld ultrasound system with its own ultrasound systems, thanks to a contract revision signed this month.The agreement removes an exclusivity provision of a January 1999 contract and

Integration of magnet and components in progressGE Medical has upgraded its Logiq 700 ultrasound system with a new coding system invented to boost the intensity of deep body signals.GE started shipping upgrades of what it has named "digitally

Interventional radiologists can use ultrasound guidance and radio-frequency ablation to treat varicose veins, researchers at the Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology annual meeting said.