Holographic scanner stirs interest
March 13th 1991Advanced Imaging Systems has hired Medical Technology Enterprisesof San Diego to help guide its ultrasound holography system tomarket by year's end. AIS of Richland, WA, controls basic patentsin holographic ultrasound, a technology that has been under
Diasonics VP steps up to head ultrasound unit
March 13th 1991Bruce Moore, former vice president of marketing for the Diasonicsultrasound division, was named president of the division lastmonth. He was previously vice president of marketing for DiasonicsMRI. Moore returned to Diasonics--along with president and
CVI may break ultrasound barriers
February 27th 1991Philips hopes that color velocity imaging (CVI) will prove asrevolutionary to the ultrasound profession as the introductionof Acuson's 128-channel imaging eight years ago. CVI has the potentialto provide new information because it uses a non-Doppler
Acuson expands line with less expensive unit
February 27th 1991Acuson will introduce a relatively inexpensive ultrasound scannersans color-flow Doppler at the American Institute of Ultrasoundin Medicine meeting in Atlanta this week. The move does not signalAcuson's intention to become a mid- and low-tier ultrasound
Sales of GE equipment may be hit hard in aftermath of Japanese bribery case
February 27th 1991The Japanese Ministry of Education has ordered a halt to purchasesof GE medical imaging equipment by national universities, accordingto a Japanese radiologist contacted by SCAN. The ministry's movefollowed the arrest this month of a Chiba University
ATL trio takes top spot in bid for leadership
February 13th 1991ATL is pushing its R&D throttle full forward in a bid to breakout from what it considers four-way technological parity at thetop of the high-end ultrasound field. A trio of top-level managershas been appointed to provide the administrative punch
Scanner prices determine MRI market segmentation
February 13th 1991Following the precedent of computed tomography, the magnetic resonanceimaging market has become price-segmented, said Surya N. Mohapatra,vice president and general manager of Picker International's NMRdivision. There are--particularly in the U.S.--three
Active-shielding trims MRI weight
February 13th 1991Picker International began shipping active-shield 1.5-tesla magneticresonance imaging systems in the fourth quarter of 1990. Threeof those units were installed before the Radiological Societyof North America meeting in November. Picker now offers the
Former scanner execs start MRI firm
January 30th 1991Three former Fonar executives have joined with a fourth partnerto form Imaging Systems International of Boca Raton, FL, a magneticresonance imaging center firm. ISI's first center, North GeorgiaDiagnostic Imaging of Atlanta, opened in June, according to
E-Z-Em, ISG agree to cooperate in imaging
January 30th 1991E-Z-Em, the dominant supplier of barium sulfate contrast mediafor gastrointestinal imaging, agreed last week to invest a minimumof $1.1 million in the three-dimensional image processing effortsof ISG Technologies of Mississauga, Ontario. The two firms
Dornier banks on new lithotripter
January 30th 1991Delays at the Food and Drug Administration have left Dornier withouta production line shock-wave lithotripter approved for sale inthe U.S. Dornier Medizintechnik of Munich has discontinued productionof its HM-4 lithotripter, while the FDA has not yet
Philips and AT&T plan restructuring of CommView PACS joint venture
January 30th 1991Philips and AT&T have agreed to restructure their CommViewjoint venture for the supply of picture archiving and communicationssystems technology. Details of the new structure have not beenfinalized, said Michael P. Moakley, president and CEO of
Center firm sells MRI to managed-care groups
January 16th 1991Declining Medicare reimbursement for magnetic resonance imagingscans combined with bargain-shopping by managed-health-care groupsspells trouble for high-field MRI centers, said Leonard F. Vernon,president and CEO of Imaging Management Associates. Centers
MRI prices fall sharply in markets outside U.S.
January 16th 1991Tight reimbursement and improvements in low-field technology havecombined to force down the prices of magnetic resonance imagingsystems sold in Japan and Europe. Japanese MRI prices have beendeclining for at least two years, and this trend has spread