Imatron CEO Lewis Meyer said his company’s sale of an electron-beam tomography scanner to The Matilda Hospital in Hong Kong not only helps the company’s finances but also may be a harbinger of an upswing in activity in the Asia-Pacific
Imatron CEO Lewis Meyer said his companys sale of an electron-beam tomography scanner to The Matilda Hospital in Hong Kong not only helps the companys finances but also may be a harbinger of an upswing in activity in the Asia-Pacific regions capital equipment market.
The Matilda Hospital will use the EBT scanner for coronary artery scanning, electron-beam angiography, and lung scanning. South San Francisco, CA-based Imatron has placed 29 EBT scanners in Japan and five in China. This is the sixth EBT scanner Imatron has sold in its second quarter of 2000.
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