Fry Construction selected for North Texas imaging lab

Fry Construction, a Carrollton, Texas-based firm that specializes in building medical imaging facilities, has begun construction on a medical imaging facility in Sherman, Texas.

The facility will be a free-standing, all-digital outpatient imaging center, featuring 3T MRI technology as well as 64-slice CT technology, digital radiography, fluoroscopy and ultrasound.

Sherman Radiology Associates and Radiology Associates of Denison collaborated with Wilson N. Jones Hospital and Texoma Medical Center to form Advanced Medical Imaging of North Texas.

Advanced Medical Imaging will manage the facility and provide radiology services.

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