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

GE Medical Systems of Milwaukee has hired Anthony Lombardo tolead its Network Products and Services group, which markets GE'sPACS products. Lombardo was formerly the head of Lockheed MartinWestern Development Laboratories Medical Imaging Systems

The termination of a CT component supply contract between StarTechnologies and GE Medical Systems has resulted in a major dropin revenues for Star. The Sterling, VA, company reported financialresults for fiscal 1996 (end-March) that indicated revenues

One of the industry's most promising PACS companies is planningto go public. Cemax-Icon of Fremont, CA, is laying the groundworkfor issuing an initial public offering in the next several months.Company officials aren't saying much about the offering, in

Project follows ATL grant for handheld ultrasoundUltrasound-guided surgery firm Tetrad and the ultrasound groupof Siemens Medical Systems are the lead companies in a consortiumthat has received a $3.2 million grant to develop a highly

Film and PACS vendor Agfa of Ridgefield Park, NJ, has promotedCaren Mason, the head of its technical imaging systems division,to a new position at corporate parent Bayer. Mason is now seniorvice president of Bayer Corporate Healthcare, where she will

Ongoing executive turmoil in the PACS industry has affected E-SystemsMedical Electronics. The San Antonio, TX, vendor has seen vicepresident of sales and marketing Larry Ware leave the company,as well as longtime executive David Salazar, who was

Trex Medical has finalized its acquisition of cardiac cath andangiography lab vendor XRE of Littleton, MA. Trex, of Danbury,CT, had announced earlier this year that it had signed a letterof intent to buy XRE (SCAN 2/28/96). In other news, Trex

Vendor hopes gamma camera will spearhead U.S. resurgenceThe nuclear medicine group of Siemens Medical Systems is hopingthat a new gamma camera introduced at this week's Society of NuclearMedicine meeting in Denver will help the company recapture

Anthony Lombardo is reportedly leaving his position as head ofLockheed Martin Western Development Laboratories Medical ImagingSystems, according to sources close to the Hoffman Estates, IL,PACS developer. Lombardo is a former veteran of Philips'

Siemens Medical Systems has tapped Dan Muehlfelder to head itsIntegrated Service Management program, the Iselin, NJ, vendor'seffort to provide multivendor service and other equipment managementprograms to customers (SCAN 12/13/95). Muehlfelder has

Toshiba America Medical Systems of Tustin, CA, will demonstrateprogress at the Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting in its approachto dealing with two artifact phenomena: photon scatter and attenuation.While competitors have concentrated on the

Major vendors tie into cardiovascular society Web siteThe recent emergence of professional societies representing clinicaland cardiovascular MRI has stirred mixed emotions among manufacturerswho lobbied for the 1994 merger of MRI's overlapping

Eastman Kodak has entered into OEM deals with ISG Technologiesand Applicare Medical Imaging, continuing the Rochester, NY, company'strend toward outsourcing PACS components.In the Applicare deal, Kodak has accessed the Dutch PACS firm'sRadWorks PC-based

Multivendor ISO fills war chest to fund expansionLos Angeles-based independent service organization COHR expandedits presence in the MRI service sector this month by acquiringVision Medical Services of Ontario, CA.Vision was formed in 1993 and

Add Toshiba to the list of companies developing 3-D ultrasoundtechnology. The company's Toshiba Medical Systems Europe subsidiaryin Zoetermeer, the Netherlands, has announced that it has developeda new transducer for 3-D imaging in obstetric