Agfa passed up the opportunity to take a chance on digital radiography a year ago, but now the Belgium-based manufacturer of analog film, PACS, and CR will add Canon’s DR thorax system to its family of products.The company is hoping to please

Batra Hospital in New Delhi has installed a 1.5-tesla GE Medical Systems MR scanner as part of its plan to become the most advanced and comprehensive multispecialty hospital in India’s capital.The machine will allow doctors to visualize the inside

Basking in the glow of rising U.S. sales of its electron-beam tomography scanners, Imatron is moving to increase business in Japan, China, Germany, and the Middle East. The move into foreign markets with Imatron sales and service staff is part of a

Philips Medical System’s latest contribution to brain scanning is its high-field MR system, the 3 tesla Gyroscan Intera. The system is under development with the University of Zurich in Switzerland, but Philips previewed the system and some of

HealthSouth, a medical equipment manufacturer that helps navigate people through the healthcare system, and Fonar have settled a patent infringement case about Fonar’s MRI technology. Both sides agreed to the settlement, and HealthSouth paid

Could extend to similar tests for “diseases of ill repute”MRI scans of Gulf War veterans show evidence of brain-cell loss, which could substantiate the claims of military personnel who say they have Gulf War Syndrome--actually at

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