Medical Imaging

Physicians utilize medical imaging to see inside the body to diagnose and treat patients. This includes computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, angiography,  and the nuclear imaging modalities of PET and SPECT. 

Eastman Kodak's Health Imaging sales gain 15 percent in 1Q

A 24 percent increase in digital products and services sales and its acquisition of PracticeWorks helped propel Eastman Kodak Co.'s Health Imaging Group to sales of $631 million in the first quarter.

Philips Medical Systems contributes to Fletcher Allen's Renaissance Project

Philips Medical Systems has signed a long-term, strategic alliance with Burlington, Vt.-based Fletcher Allen Health Care Inc.

SourceOne expands partnership with Del Medical Systems

SourceOne Healthcare Technologies Inc. has garnered marketing, distribution and service rights to Del Medical Systems Group's radiography and imaging systems product lines.

Planar Systems posts lower sales, earnings in second quarter of FY04

The market's shift to digital imaging took its toll on Planar Systems Inc.'s financial results in its second fiscal quarter, ending March 26.

Planar announces its provisional Fat-to-Flat program

Planar Systems Inc. is initiating a trade-in-program from April 19 to July 16, allowing hospitals to swap two-megapixel (MP) or higher grayscale analog display controllers, regardless of make and model, for special incentive pricing on the purchase of dua

Fischer Imaging completes its restatement of results from 2000 to 2003

Fischer Imaging Corp. last week completed its review of its financial results, per order of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), for the years 2000 through 2003.

Plasmon closes on purchase of Raidtec

Archival storage firm Plasmon on Wednesday completed its acquisition of Raidtec for approximately $6.1 million.

CMS hikes payments to 121 hospitals

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has increased payments to 121 hospitals in 25 states for patients who are discharged on or after April 1.

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The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer. 

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