Mirada recruits German hospital

University Hospital Essen has signed an agreement with Mirada Solutions, a unit of CTI Molecular Imaging, to serve as the company's first European clinical reference site. German physicians will use Mirada software in a combined PET/CT environment to address software fusion requirements as a complement to conventional hardware-based techniques. The hospital has been working with PET/CT imaging since October 2001. The collaboration is the first step toward establishing R&D partnerships among leading European institutions, CTI, and its subsidiaries, including Mirada Solutions and PETNET Pharmaceuticals. Mirada joined CTI Aug. 18, when CTI purchased all of Mirada's capital stock.