Scanner capable of simultaneous operationsA big boost in computer processing power is the heart of a newCT scanner developed by Picker International. The new system,PQ 6000, stands at the top of the Cleveland vendor's CT productline and includes

Positron must raise $25 million to complete purchaseWearied by a moribund market registering worldwide sales of only$40 million a year, GE Medical Systems announced this month thatit intends to sell its manufacturing and product development

GE MedicalSystems will enter the market for positron emission tomographyscanners on Jan. 1 with the acquisition of Scanditronix's PETcamera business. This endorsement of PET by the world's largestmedical imaging vendor should boost clinical acceptance of

Vendors show new scanners at ICR show in BeijingA battle royal is looming in international markets among CT vendorsthat are introducing new spiral scanners at price points unheardof just a few years ago. The competition is likely to reach afever

Philips Medical Systems North America has landed a heavy hitterto lead long-range planning in its PACS business unit. The Shelton,CT, vendor announced this month that it has hired Col. Fred Goeringer(ret.), who headed the U.S. military's medical

Agency found fault with GMP documentationGE Medical Systems has suspended shipments of mammography andradiation therapy systems into the U.S. after receiving a warningletter from the Food and Drug Administration regarding good

Karlak leaves company in executive reshufflingPACS developer E-Systems Medical Electronics has been forced tomodify its aspiration to be a full-scale PACS player, at leastfor the time being. The San Antonio, TX, company last week underwenta

Toshiba America Medical Systems' new entry into the high-fieldMRI scanner segment has received regulatory clearance from theFood and Drug Administration. Visart is a 1.5-tesla scanner thatthe Tustin, CA, company unveiled at last year's Radiological

Picker International has promoted several executives to new positionswith the Cleveland-based multimodality vendor. Surya Mohapatra,formerly head of the company's MR division, has been named seniorvice president, with responsibility for Picker's MR,

Vendors transform themselves in reaction to market dynamicsFighting for survival in the Darwinian world of U.S. healthcarehas transformed the species Scanner Manufacturer. Medical imagingvendors have gotten tougher and smarter while learning to

Siemens Medical Systems has received 510(k) marketing clearancefor an upgrade package for its Magnetom Open MRI scanner thatenables clinicians to perform MRI-guided procedures with the scanner.The FDA's move also allows the Iselin, NJ, vendor to promote

Nuclear medicine vendors look to high-energy imagingto createcustomer incentives for buying new equipmentDoom and gloom of 1995 show dissipates at Denver meetingRenewed optimism characterized last month's 43rd annual Societyof Nuclear

IMiG-MRI features eddy-current-free magnet designA joint venture between Intermagnetics General and Surrey MedicalImaging Systems has rolled out a new 0.15-tesla permanent magnetMRI scanner that developers claim will lower the minimum

Tide may be turning in favor of big installations, howeverThe market for filmless-hospital picture archiving and communicationssystems (PACS) has developed more slowly than expected, much tothe consternation of vendors that have made major

Former Agfa technical imaging chief Caren Mason has left a newposition at Agfa's parent company Bayer for a job in the serviceorganization of GE Medical Systems. Mason had been in the Bayerposition for only a matter of weeks before she accepted the

Imaging services provider Alliance Imaging of Orange, CA, lastmonth announced that it has purchased five new mobile 1-teslaMRI scanners worth a total of $8 million. Alliance bought twoof the scanners from GE, two from Siemens, and one from Picker.The

This issue marks the beginning of SCAN's 10th year of publishing.It's an accomplishment in which we take some pride, given therapidly changing nature of the medical imaging industry. Through the years, we've tried to give you an insider's lookat

Charges for aisle space raise ire of vendorsThere is a line that, when crossed, spurs the compliant but dissatisfiedto action. The Radiological Society of North America may havecrossed that line. The Chicago-based association has bumped up the

Clinical roles for solid-state camera examined The nuclear medicine unit of GE Medical Systems made its biggestsplash in recent years at the Society of Nuclear Medicine meetingthis month, with the launch of dual-head variable-angle

Vendor to focus on breast imaging and MDI unitMRI developer Advanced NMR has announced that it will halt itsmarketing effort for its InstaScan echo-planar imaging product,due to slow sales for the fast-scanning package. The move endsa long and