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Nuclear medicine vendor ADAC Laboratories has adopted a shareholders'rights plan designed to protect its shareholders' interests inthe event of an unsolicited takeover of the Milpitas, CA, company.ADAC said that the plan was not adopted in response to

Nuclear medicine and information systems vendor ADAC Laboratoriesreported sharply higher sales and net income for its second quarter(end-March). The Milpitas, CA, company posted revenues of $58.4million, a company record, compared with revenues of $44.7

Nuclear medicine vendor SMV has revamped its executive lineup,a move that has resulted in the departure of Colin McNaught, chairmanand CEO of the vendor's SMV America unit in Twinsburg OH, andAndre Debionne, chairman and CEO of the holding company for

Saint-Gobain units land gamma camera dealsIf solid-state gamma camera detectors are ever to become a clinicalreality, nuclear medicine vendors will have to reduce the costof the technology to a point where solid-state products are

Printer manufacturer Seiko Instruments has released a new lineof dye sublimation printers that add support for the PostScriptprinting protocol. Seiko hopes that the 8.5 x 11 version of theprinter line will help solidify its position in the nuclear

Nuclear medicine vendor SMV of Twinsburg, OH, has announced thatthe Food and Drug Administration has issued 510(k) clearance forits transmission attenuation correction (TAC) protocol. TAC isdesigned for SMV's Vision DST and Vision DST-XL

A new report published by Frost & Sullivan of Mountain View,CA, predicts that ultrasound's share of the cardiac imaging marketwill grow in coming years, while that of x-ray and nuclear medicinedeclines. The publication claims that the worldwide

Nuclear medicine pharmacy firm Syncor reported solid financialresults for its 1995 fiscal year (end-December), offering furtherproof that the nuclear medicine industry's slump eased last year.The Chatsworth, CA, firm said that both revenues and

Functional MRI could lead to 4-tesla renaissanceThe nuclear magnetic resonance instrument division of Varian Associatesin Palo Alto, CA, is chiseling out a specialized niche in ultra-high-fieldMRI with the launch of Unity Inova, a whole-body

Nuclear medicine vendor ADAC Laboratories of Milpitas, CA, haspromoted David Lowe to the position of chairman, replacing StanleyCzerwinski, who is retiring. Lowe will retain his title of CEO,while Czerwinski will remain a member of ADAC's

Vendor is developing variable-angle gamma cameraThe new head of the nuclear medicine group of Siemens MedicalSystems has a track record for bringing R&D projects to marketquickly, a trait that the Hoffman Estates, IL, group is countingon to

MCD and LabStat will also expand markets in 1996The multivendor service program being developed by nuclear medicinevendor ADAC Laboratories is one of three major growth initiativesthe Milpitas, CA, firm is pushing in 1996 to expand its

The Food and Drug Administration has cleared three Hitachi gammacameras that are the centerpiece of the vendor's planned comebackin nuclear medicine. Two of the cameras are systems manufacturedby Hitachi and formerly marketed by Summit Nuclear, while

ADAC Laboratories of Milpitas, CA, pleased the investment communitylast week by announcing that it expects sharply higher bookingsand revenue for its first quarter of fiscal 1996 (end-December).The market responded by sending the nuclear medicine

Plan will require increase in molybdenum pricesThe American College of Nuclear Physicians and the Society ofNuclear Medicine are poised to issue a letter of support for NordionInternational's plan to build two new nuclear reactors to

Printer developer Codonics of Middleburg Heights, OH, has signeda three-year contract with ADAC Laboratories of Milpitas, CA,in which the nuclear medicine vendor agreed to purchase CodonicsNP-1600MD and EP-1650 dye-diffusion printers. Codonics valuedthe

Nuclear medicine vendor ADAC Laboratories of Milpitas, CA, gota helping hand from the Food and Drug Administration at this year'sRadiological Society of North America meeting. The agency clearedADAC's 510(k) application for its molecular coincidence

Nuclear medicine vendor ADAC Laboratories will highlight its MolecularCoincidence Detection (MCD) technique, which enables high-energypositron imaging to be conducted on gamma cameras without theuse of the heavy collimators employed in 511-KeV imaging.

Hitachi Medical of Tokyo will use the RSNA meeting as a springboardin its plan to reenter the nuclear medicine market with directsales and marketing of digital gamma cameras it has manufacturedfor Summit Nuclear. Hitachi will describe the products as

SMV will exhibit at its first RSNA conference since the nuclearmedicine vendor was formed through the merger of Sopha Medicaland Summit Nuclear (SCAN 6/21/95). SMV has renamed the Sopha andSummit product lines, giving them the prefix "Vision. Among

Recent advances in CT and nuclear medicine will take center stageat Elscint's RSNA booth. In CT, the Israeli firm will introduceSeleCT/SP, a new entry-level spiral CT platform targeted at developingcountries. SeleCT/SP is a compact 1.8-second scanner

Siemens Medical Systems has appointed Barbara Franciose as groupvice president of its nuclear medicine group in Hoffman Estates,IL. Franciose replaces Thomas Cafarella, who led the divisionfor two years (SCAN 7/14/93). Franciose is a Siemens veteran

Nuclear medicine veteran Randy Weatherhead has been named vicepresident of marketing for the nuclear medicine division of SiemensMedical Systems in Hoffman Estates, IL. Weatherhead fills a positionpreviously held by Robert Lytle, who died in a plane

Single-head system to complement Picker's Prism XP linePicker International last week announced that it has acquiredScinticor, a Milwaukee-based manufacturer of cardiac gamma cameras,in a deal concluded Sept. 20. Terms of the acquisition were

HMO giant Kaiser Permanente has given ADAC Laboratories an exclusivethree-year contract to supply nuclear medicine equipment to 17hospitals in its northern California region. ADAC, of Milpitas,CA, believes the contract could be worth up to $10 million.

Diatech has five peptide-based agents in clinical trialsNorwegian pharmaceutical giant Hafslund Nycomed this month madea bid to strengthen a presence in the radiopharmaceutical marketwith a $10 million equity investment in Diatech, a U.S.

Diagnostic Health Services has completed its acquisition of severalultrasound and nuclear medicine centers in the Midwest that werepreviously owned by Medical Imaging Centers of America. Dallas-basedDHS said the MICA division generates more than $5

Firm targets Siemens installed base The aging installed base of nuclear medicine gamma cameras representsa profitable niche for some companies that have made a businessout of keeping older cameras current. One such firm, MIE Americaof Elk Grove

Technique may expand modality's applicationsTechnological advances in nuclear medicine are having an unexpectedeffect on radiopharmaceutical vendors. As the specialty becomesmore accurate in targeting specific disease states, the potentialpayoff

Vendor bullish on potential of new productsNuclear medicine vendor ADAC Laboratories posted financial resultsfor its third quarter (end-July) that show the company back onthe growth track it had been following until the nuclear medicinemarket