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Toshiba America Medical Systems plans to emphasize productivity gains, as well as its coincidence-ready E.Cams with 5/8-inch crystals, at next month's Society of Nuclear Medicine show in Los Angeles. The Tustin, CA, company received clearance for

Food and Drug Administration clearance is imminent for several advanced gamma camera options developed by Hitachi Medical Systems America. The Twinsburg, OH, vendor has already received 510(k) clearance for a 5/8-inch crystal option, and is

GE Medical Systems will introduce a new cyclotron at next month’s Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting in Los Angeles that is targeted to produce radiopharmaceuticals for individual PET sites. The new cyclotron is called MINItrace and is a smaller

Nuclear medicine developer ADAC Laboratories of Milpitas, CA, will introduce a new version of its dedicated cardiac gamma camera at next month’s Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting in Los Angeles. ADAC has taken the basic design of its Cardio

Nuclear medicine vendor ADAC Laboratories continues to be plagued by accounting snafus. The Milpitas, CA, company announced May 19 that it will delay the release of its financial results for the second quarter (end-April) as it evaluates whether

Company will sell and support existing nuclear medicine systemsHitachi Medical’s nascent drive to become a nuclear medicine powerhouse appears to have come to an end. The Tokyo company has decided to discontinue development and manufacturing

Nuclear medicine developer ADAC Laboratories issued a warning to the financial markets on April 21, stating that the Milpitas, CA, company expects to post lower than anticipated profits and revenues for the second quarter (end-April). ADAC believes that

Nuclear medicine vendor ADAC Laboratories of Milpitas, CA, this month issued restated financial results for the years 1996 through 1999 (see chart). At the same time, the company released financial results for the first quarter of 1999 (end-January) that

Sen. Stevens may step in again if reimbursement does not materializeIt may take some effort for the nuclear medicine community to increase the number of PET applications eligible for Medicare reimbursement. At a town hall meeting in Baltimore last

Firm intends unit for scintimammographyIn a nuclear medicine market dominated by large players, new gamma camera manufacturers are relatively rare. But one more firm is about to appear on the market. Dilon Technologies of Newport News, VA, filed a

DOE chooses commercial reactor rather than APTThe biomedical and radiopharmaceutical communities received disappointing news in December when U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson awarded a key tritium production contract to federal utility

Merge Technologies of Milwaukee last month signed an agreement with ADAC Laboratories of Milpitas, CA, in which ADAC will expand its distribution of Merge products. The agreement includes Merge’s DICOM products for ADAC businesses such as nuclear

Company moves forward despite shareholder suitsADAC Laboratories highlighted new ventures in radiation therapy planning, nuclear medicine, and image and information management as promising areas for growth at a presentation at this month’s

Siemens Medical Systems' nuclear medicine group of Hoffman Estates, IL, rolled into the Radiological Society of North America meeting last month with a new offering in its E.Cam line. The company introduced E.Cam Cardiac Imaging System for dedicated

Nuclear medicine newcomer Dilon Technologies of Newport News, VA, announced last month that it had submitted a 510(k) application to the Food and Drug Administration for Dilon 2000, a gamma camera that will be Dilon's first commercial product. The camera

Radiopharmaceutical producer International Isotopes this month signed a technology development deal with a Texas university that the company hopes will lead to a nuclear medicine camera with up to four times the resolution of systems on the market.

The Food and Drug Administration cleared Toshiba America Medical Systems' coincidence detection imaging software for its Toshiba E. Cam last month, according to Lin Sinclair, product manager for the company's nuclear medicine division. Toshiba's E.Cams

Shareholders of nuclear medicine vendor ADAC Laboratories received a shock late last month when the company announced that it will restate its financial results for the last three years. The news prompted a major selloff in ADAC shares and triggered a

Nuclear medicine vendors rolled into the RSNA show confident in the strength of the technology advances in their exhibits and the health of the overall market. The U.S. nuclear medicine market exhibited robust growth in 1998, with vendors predicting that

Acquisitions are finalized just days before start of RSNA conferenceIt went down to the wire, but Picker International and GE Medical Systems achieved their goals of acquiring Elscint's CT, nuclear medicine, and MRI business units in time for this

Nuclear medicine vendor ADAC Laboratories of Milpitas, CA, introduced two new variable-angle gamma cameras at this month's Radiological Society of North America meeting in Chicago: Forte and Vertex V60. ADAC hopes Forte, a new open-gantry camera, will

ADAC Laboratories continues to experience healthy financial growth, thanks to robust performances from all of its businesses. The Milpitas, CA-based nuclear medicine and radiation therapy powerhouse posted a 20% increase in revenue during its record

Startup hires Diagnostix Plus as distributorIn radiology’s new managed-care environment, nuclear medicine departments are looking for ways to maximize their assets, especially large capital equipment like gamma cameras. One way to do this is

Market research firm Technology Marketing Group of Des Plaines, IL, reported this month that nuclear medicine procedure volume climbed almost 7% in the U.S. in 1997, with the number of studies performed growing from 12.1 million in 1996 to 12.9 million

Nuclear Associates releases calibratorsNuclear Associates has introduced several calibrators designed for PACS and computed radiography applications. PACS Test Pattern, available in digital and film formats, allows users to detect, identify, and

Vendor beefs up offerings in cardiologyLess than two weeks after putting in a bid for the MRI and nuclear medicine divisions of Elscint, GE Medical Systems made another corporate play, this time in its own backyard. If all goes as planned,

Beth Klein has been tapped to lead the nuclear medicine and PET division of GE Medical Systems, replacing Sharon Banaszewski, who has been reassigned to a position overseeing the Milwaukee company’s supplier relationships. Klein is a long-time GE

OCTI developing optical coherence tomographyUsing light as an imaging source has long fascinated inventors. But since radiology has produced such effective imaging modalities as CT, nuclear medicine, MRI, and ultrasound, radiologists have been

Radiopharmacy firm Syncor International of Woodland Hills, CA, has agreed to license its technology to Israeli nuclear research agency Soreq and its subsidiary, Isorad, which plan to establish a radiopharmacy in Israel. In exchange for providing

Siemens Medical Systems' Nuclear Medicine Group announced this month that the Food and Drug Administration has cleared the Hoffman Estates, IL, division's Emory Cardiac Toolbox, a cardiac image processing software package. Developed by Emory University