Agfa to sell Dicomit's DICOM Image ManagerDicomit of Richmond Hill, Ontario, has added PACS powerhouse Agfa to its list of OEM partners. Agfa will resell Dicomit's DICOM Image Manager system, which upgrades any non-DICOM ultrasound system to

CompuRad acquires PACS family of Star TechnologiesSale marks medical imaging exit for StarTucson, AZ-based CompuRad has broadened its product line with the purchase of the PACS products of Star Technologies, which has elected to exit

GE reveals plans in digital x-ray with debut of EG&G partnershipEG&G's large-area detectors are capable of real-time fluoro imagingGE Medical Systems last month finally broke its silence regarding the development of direct digital

Europeans benefit from fast approvals and flexible regulationsThe difference in regulatory climates between the U.S. and Europe is nowhere more evident than in the field of interventional radiology. European radiologists, emboldened by a newly

Picker goes public with new magnets before GE and SiemensThe summer doldrums have been broken with a series of product introductions that promise to redefine the look and performance of high-field, whole-body MRI systems.Picker International got

Imatron to use RTR-2000 for interventional CTA Japanese company called TeraRecon that has developed a new computer architecture for ultra-high-speed image reconstruction is looking for OEM partners that might be interested in incorporating the

Diffusion MRI opens path to early stroke treatmentReal diagnostic progress is being made in this "Decade of the Brain," and MRI is the imaging modality out front. New functional MRI techniques will lead to radical improvements in the treatment of

Sterling Diagnostic Imaging continues to add to its stable of OEM partners. The Greenville, SC, film and PACS vendor last month added two new OEM alliances, Access Radiology of Natick, MA, and GE Medical Systems of Milwaukee.The Access agreement enables

Imation of Oakdale, MN, last week closed its acquisition of PACS Cemax-Icon of Fremont, CA. Imation and Cemax-Icon announced the agreement in May, in which Imation agreed to pay $30 million up front and up to $49 million in milestone payments for

The chief executive of German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG last month stated emphatically that the company's Medical Engineering Group is not for sale. While Medical Engineering finished the first six months of the year in the red, due to a massive

New scanner features powerful supercomputed architectureJust when you thought it was safe to go shopping for an ultrasound scanner, along comes another company with a new super-premium system to consider. ATL Ultrasound last month became the

Rogan's move into U.S. market bears fruit for Dutch PACS vendorCompany benefiting from OEM relationshipsDutch PACS vendor Rogan Medical Systems is reaping rewards from its 1995 decision to enter the U.S. market. OEM relationships and a

ALI inks deal with IBM to develop large-scale archiveAlliance may presage ALI's expansion from ultrasoundUltrasound miniPACS developer ALI Technologies and IBM Canada have announced a new initiative to develop an automated enterprise-wide

PACS needs new compression standardWhile the reluctance of imaging equipment manufacturers to develop software for lossy compression is understandable, it is disappointing that the DICOM members chose not to move forward with a proposal to

Siemens to market Howtek digitizersSiemens Health Services will sell Hudson, NJ-based Howtek's Scanmaster DX x-ray film scanners under an agreement between the companies announced last month. Scanmaster DX will be offered by Siemens as a

AHRA, SCAR hold electronic imaging showThe American Healthcare Radiology Administrators, in collaboration with the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology, will hold a PACS conference Oct. 23-25 at Caesars Tahoe in Lake Tahoe, NV. The

Siemens seeks to place PACS business within information systems contextMultimodality vendor shifts PACS division to reflect market trendsSiemens Medical Systems is one of the most experienced companies in the PACS market, and also one of

Sterling signs deals with Access and GESterling Diagnostic Imaging of Greenville, SC, announced late last month new OEM agreements with Access Radiology and GE Medical Systems for teleradiology and laser printer technology. The GE agreement

DICOM working group's effort to add to compression standard derailsLack of consumer market support doomed wavelet's prospectsIn a move that may delay the addition of new lossy compression algorithms to the DICOM 3.0 PACS connectivity

GE last week paid Fonar $128.7 million for damages in the MRI patent infringement case Fonar is pursuing against the Milwaukee company. The payment does not mean the case is over for GE, however, as the company intends to continue its appeal of the case