Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from May 2004

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from May 2004

Feigal leaves CDRH post with good feelings about his role.(Second of two stories)
May 6, 2004... ROCKVILLE, Maryland -- David Feigal's five years as head of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) ended last week, and he prepared to accept a new consultancy position (see sidebar, p. 5). He told Diagnostics & Imaging Week...

Finland's Oulu region emerges as healthcare products area.(Report from Europe)
May 6, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report An emerging area of biomedical industry activity in Europe is Finland's Oulu region, located about 600 kilometers north of the capital city of Helsinki. Companies operating within the...

Genzyme closes $215m buy of Impath physician services unit.(Deals roundup)
May 6, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Genzyme (Cambridge, Massachusetts) reported completing its purchase of the Physician Services business unit of Impath (New York), which is focused on on oncology testing. Genzyme acquired the...

Study points to 133 genes that play role in deciding AML risk.
May 6, 2004... Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine (Stanford, California) in a study have uncovered 133 genes that they say point to the most dangerous strains of adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML), information that ultimately could be...

Bruker BioSciences offering puts $15.52 million in its coffers.(Financings roundup)
May 6, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Bruker BioSciences (Billerica, Massachusetts) reported the closing of the public offering of 17.25 million shares of its common stock, of which 3.4.5 million shares were sold by the company and 13.8...

Ivax Diagnostics.(Financings roundup)
May 6, 2004... Ivax Diagnostics (Miami, Florida) has exercised its right to purchase and redeem a total of 657,125 shares of its common stock From a group of three unaffiliated stockholders at an exercise price of $4 a share, in accordance with the terms of a...

Ophthalmic Imaging Systems.(Financings roundup)
May 6, 2004... Ophthalmic Imaging Systems (OIS; Sacramento, California), a provider of ophthalmic digital imaging systems, has issued a secured convertible note to Laurus Master Fund Ltd., a Financial institution that specializes in providing financing...

Quinton Cardiology Systems.(Financings roundup)
May 6, 2004... Quinton Cardiology Systems (Bothell, Washington) has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the underwritten sale to the public of 3 million shares of its common stock. Terms of the financing were not...

CTI Molecular and Siemens Medical in agreement on PET.(Agreements roundup)
May 6, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report In a change initialed by CPS Innovations (Knoxville, Tennessee), a joint venture between CTI Molecular Imaging (also Knoxville) and Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania), CTI Molecular...

TriVirix.(Agreements roundup)
May 6, 2004... TriVirix (Durham, North Carolina), a global provider of product development, manufacturing and end-user services to the medical and life sciences equipment industries, said it has entered a manufacturing agreement with QRS Diagnostic (Plymouth,...

Molecular Imaging (San Diego, California), a provider of molecular imaging services in the U.S., has entered several agreements with a subsidiary of RadNet Management.(Agreements roundup)
May 6, 2004... Molecular Imaging (San Diego, California), a provider of molecular imaging services in the U.S., has entered several agreements with a subsidiary of RadNet Management (Los Angeles, California) to provide PET scanning services at up to 11 of...

Sysmex, MedAssets in pact on analyzers, reagents, services.(Grants/contracts)
May 6, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Sysmex America (Mundelein, Illinois), a provider of medical diagnostic equipment, and MedAssets HSCA (St. Louis, Missouri), a group purchasing organization serving more than 22,000 healthcare...

Siemens Medical introduces all-digital Sonoline US system.
May 6, 2004... Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) is introducing its latest ultrasound (US) product, the all-digital Sonoline G20, this week at the 52nd annual clinical meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists...

Study: diabetes to increase more than expected.
May 6, 2004... The number of people with diabetes worldwide will continue to increase at record levels through 2030, with the greatest relative increase in prevalence expected in the Middle Eastern Crescent, sub-Saharan Africa and India, according to a study...

Sepsis management guidelines published.(Report from Europe)
May 6, 2004... Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, the first clinical management guidelines ever to address the treatment of patients so afflicted, have been published in the journals Critical Care Medicine...

CHF marker rights acquired.(Report from Europe)
May 6, 2004... Inverness Medical Innovations (Waltham, Massachusetts) gained rights to a biomarker technology from the Roche Diagnostics unit of F. Hoffmann-La Roche (Basel, Switzerland). Through its Inverness Medical Switzerland GmbH subsidiary,...

Given imaging reimbursed by CIGNA.(Briefly Noted)
May 6, 2004... Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) said that CIGNA HealthCare (Bloomfield, Connecticut) recognizes capsule endoscopy as a covered medical service for the diagnosis of obscure bleeding suspected to be due to small bowel disease following...

Axon Instruments.(Product Briefs)
May 6, 2004... Axon Instruments (Union City, California) reported the release of its robotic microarray scanner, the GenePix Autoloader 4200AL. The GenePix Autoloader loads, scans and analyzes up to 36 standard microarray slides without user intervention. The...

Eastman Kodak.(Product Briefs)
May 6, 2004... Eastman Kodak (Rochester, New York), through its Health Imaging Group, reported a new option for its Kodak Directview DR 9000 digital radiography (DR) system that enables trauma centers to accelerate treatment and improve care while minimizing...

Imaging Diagnostic Systems.(Product Briefs)
May 6, 2004... Imaging Diagnostic Systems (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) reported that its international patent application for "Laser imaging apparatus using biomedical markers that bind to cancer cells" was granted as Canadian patent No. 2,373,299 for a period...

Genetics Squared.(People In Places)
May 6, 2004... * John Freshley has been named president and chief executive officer of Genetics Squared (Ann Arbor, Michigan), and will assume the new position in a full-time capacity june 15. Freshley, who has worked with Genetics Squared for the past two...

HealthSouth.(People In Places)
May 6, 2004... * Jay Grinney has been named president and chief executive office: of HealthSouth (Birmingham, Alabama), effective May 10. He also will serve as a member of HealthSouth's board of directors. Grinney, who most recently served as the president of...

Integrated Nano-Technologies.(People In Places)
May 6, 2004... * Integrated Nano-Technologies (INT; Rochester, New York), a leader in sensitive, rapid, portable, electronic, biological agent identification technology, has hired Doyle Hill, PhD, as vice president and chief technology officer. Prior to...

QT 5.(People In Places)
May 6, 2004... * QT 5 (Westlake Village, California) has named Edna Barris vice president of sales for oil diagnostic products. Barris previously was part of the sales, sales training and sales specialists' team of Monoclonal Antibodies, later to merge with...

Caliper Life Sciences.(Product Briefs)
May 6, 2004... * Caliper Life Sciences (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) reported that it has started shipping the protein assay for Its LabChip 90 Automated Electrophoresis System. The new assay is an alternative to the conventional method for sizing and...

Nanogen.(Product Briefs)
May 6, 2004... * Nanogen (San Diego, California) reported that it was issued U.S. patent No. 6,726,880, "Electronic devices for performing active biological operations and method of using same," by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent relates to...

Toxin Alert.(Product Briefs)
May 6, 2004... * Toxin Alert (Toronto, Ontario) reported that it was awarded U.S. patent No. 6,696,264 titled "Method and apparatus for detection of multiple biological materials with a heterogeneous antibody mixture" by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office....

Quest Diagnostics.(Product Briefs)
May 6, 2004... * Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, New Jersey) reported that it is now offering a gene-based blood test to detect genetic mutations associated with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a condition that causes females to accumulate male sex...

Vision-Sciences.(Product Briefs)
May 6, 2004... * Vision-Sciences (Natick, Massachusetts) said it has received FDA clearance to market its new Flexible Cystoscope with Slide-On EndoSheath System in the U.S. The system presents a new concept that provides urologists with a flexible endoscope...

High-speed cervical cancer screening system advances.
May 13, 2004... A high-speed flow cytometry system for cervical cancer screening that was born from a deal almost two years ago is coming closer to fruition. In what Matritech (Newton, Massachusetts) President and Chief Operating Officer David Corbet...

Report on UK Evercare pilot program shows positive results.(Report from Europe)
May 13, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is developing new ways to help, older people maintain and improve their health and avoid hospital admission under a new program being piloted in nine English...

Illumina raises $31m privately, files $65m shelf registration.(Financings roundup)
May 13, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Illumina (San Diego, California) secured $30.7 million in a registered direct offering of its common stock, which might represent the last financing the company ever conducts. Founded six years...

Nanobac targets Nanobacteria in diagnostic of key pathogens.
May 13, 2004... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Writer With epidemiological research in hand demonstrating a "strong correlation" between the presence of antibodies to nanobacteria and coronary artery calcification (CAC) in asymptomatic individuals,...

Medcare adds to sleep holdings via $25 million buy of SleepTech.(Deals roundup)
May 13, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Medcare (Reykjavik, Iceland), a manufacturer of" diagnostic equipment for sleep treatment centers, reported acquiring a 100% interest in SleepTech (Kinnelon, New Jersey), a manager of...

U.S. Genomics adds $7.5 million via federal biodefense contract.(Grants/contracts)
May 13, 2004... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Writer Working with the U.S Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Genomics (Woburn, Massachusetts) has received a $7.5 million Phase I contract to develop a biological sensor for biodefense applications. ...

Xoran Technologies (Ann Arbor, Michigan) received a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda, Maryland).(Grants/contracts)
May 13, 2004... * Xoran Technologies (Ann Arbor, Michigan) received a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda, Maryland) to adapt its computed tomography (CT) technology, currently optimized for in-office imaging, for...

Air Force Medical Services, UPMC in teleradiology effort.(Agreements)
May 13, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) and Air Force Medical Services (AFMS) have launched a teleradiology initiative at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base...

Database formed for radiology imaging sites.(Agreements)
May 13, 2004... According to a recent survey published by IMV Medical Information Division (Des Plaines, Illinois), a builder of "census databases" that track medical imaging laboratories, 40% of radiology imaging sites reported that they use no film for...

CUNY, MediPhotonics in project agreement.(Briefly Noted)
May 13, 2004... MediPhotonics Development (New York), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mediscience Technology (Cherry Hill, New Jersey), has entered into a project agreement with the Research Foundation of City University of New York (RF-CUNY). Mediscience...

Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) reported signing an exclusive sales representation and co-promotion agreement with Ethicon Endo-Surgery (Cincinnati, Ohio), a business of Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, New Jersey).
May 13, 2004... Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) reported signing an exclusive sales representation and co-promotion agreement with Ethicon Endo-Surgery (Cincinnati, Ohio), a business of Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, New Jersey). In Scope, a unit of Ethicon...

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, Maryland) reported granting 27 new awards representing a total of up to $74.9 million under its Advanced Technology Program (ATP).(Grants/contracts)
May 13, 2004... * The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, Maryland) reported granting 27 new awards representing a total of up to $74.9 million under its Advanced Technology Program (ATP). The industry share...

Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) has provided an unrestricted educational grant to the Center for Atrial Fibrillation at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio).(Grants/contracts)
May 13, 2004... * Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) has provided an unrestricted educational grant to the Center for Atrial Fibrillation at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) for a symposium titled "Imaging in Electrophysiology:...

Agfa (Ridgefield Park, New Jersey) reported that the group purchasing division of Premier (San Diego, California) granted a contract award for Agfa's picture archiving and communication system (PACS) solution.(Grants/contracts)
May 13, 2004... * Agfa (Ridgefield Park, New Jersey) reported that the group purchasing division of Premier (San Diego, California) granted a contract award for Agfa's picture archiving and communication system (PACS) solution. This three-year multi-source...

MFIC.(Financings roundup)
May 13, 2004... * MFIC (Newton, Massachusetts) has filed a registration statement with the SEC to register the shares of common stock underlying its recently completed private placement. The registration statement registered for public sale only shares...

Young Innovations.(Financings roundup)
May 13, 2004... * Young Innovations (St. Louis, Missouri) reported that its board has authorized the repurchase of up to 500,000 shares of the company's stock. This authorization, which will expire in July 2005, replaces the current authorization, which was...

Cellmark to provide sheep genotyping.(Report from Europe)
May 13, 2004... Orchid BioSciences (Princeton, New Jersey) reported that the Cellmark unit of its Orchid Europe business has been authorized by the Irish government to provide genotyping services designed to help farmers breed sheep with reduced susceptibility...

Temporary codes set for virtual colonoscopy.(Report from Europe)
May 13, 2004... E-Z-EM (Lake Success, New York) reported that the CPT Editorial Panel of the American Medical Association (AMA; Chicago, Illinois) has issued temporary Category III CPT codes for computed tomographic colonography, or virtual colonoscopy. The...

Radiologic reading expansion set.(Briefly Noted)
May 13, 2004... Virtual Radiologic Consultants (VRC: Minneapolis Minnesota), a teleradiology company, said it plans to, expand its operations to include a central reading facility in Hawaii. Currently, Virtual Radiologic Consultants' radiologists read for more...

Caliper Life Sciences (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) and Amphora Discovery (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) have signed an agreement for Caliper to acquire cell-based screening assay technology developed by Amphora.(Deals roundup)
May 13, 2004... * Caliper Life Sciences (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) and Amphora Discovery (Research Triangle Park, North. Carolina) have signed an agreement for Caliper to acquire cell-based screening assay technology developed by Amphora. Terms of the...

Pheromone Sciences (Toronto, Ontario), a company specializing in ovulation detection technology, has signed an agreement for Healthwatchsystems (Sarasota, Florida).(Deals roundup)
May 13, 2004... * Pheromone Sciences (Toronto, Ontario), a company specializing in ovulation detection technology, has signed an agreement for Healthwatchsystems (Sarasota, Florida) to take over the worldwide marketing of Pheromone's proprietary technology,...

BioSource International.(People in Places)
May 13, 2004... * BioSource International (Camarillo, California) has named Alan Edrick executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective May 17. Edrick replaces Charles Rest, who has resigned to pursue other opportunities. Edrick most recently...

BioTrove.(People in Places)
May 13, 2004... * Michael Olex has been named vice president of manufacturing for BioTrove (Woburn, Massachusetts). Most recently, he served as senior vice president, manufacturing and operations at U.S. Genomics. Biotrove develops nanofluidic systems for the...

Immucor.(People in Places)
May 13, 2004... * Immucor (Norcross, Georgia) has promoted Dr. Gioacchino (Nino) De Chirico to chief executive officer. He has been president and chief operating officer since July 2003. Immucor manufactures a complete line of reagents and systems used by...

Integrated Nano-Technologies.(People In Places)
May 13, 2004... * Integrated Nano-Technologies (INT: Rochester, New York), a developer of sensitive, rapid, portable, electronic, biological agent identification technology, has hired Doyle Hill, PhD, as rice president and chief technology officer. Prior to...

Axon Instruments.(Product Briefs)
May 13, 2004... * Axon Instruments (Union City, California) reported the release of its robotic microarray scanner the GenePix Autoloader 4200AL. The GenePix Autoloader loads, scans and analyzes up to 36 standard microarray slides without user intervention....

Digene.(Product Briefs)
May 13, 2004... * Digene (Gaithersburg, Maryland) reported FDA approval for its Rapid Capture System application that allows high-throughput testing with the company's hc2 High-Risk HPV DNA Test. Using this system, 352 patient specimens can be analyzed by one...

Kendle International.(Product Briefs)
May 13, 2004... * Kendle International (Cincinnati, Ohio) reported the addition of planimetry capabilities to its TrialView imaging solution. The company said the new capabilities provide an accurate, efficient and cost-effective means to measure body areas...

Quest Diagnostics.(Product Briefs)
May 13, 2004... Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, New Jersey) reported that it is offering a gene-based blood test to detect genetic mutations associated with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) a condition that causes females to accumulate male sex hormones. The...

Siemens Medical Solutions.(Product Briefs)
May 13, 2004... * Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) reported the release of the first clinical images acquired using a 64-slice computed tomography system, at Friedrich-Alexander University (Erlangen/Nuremberg, Germany). Siemens Somatom...

Vision-Sciences.(Product Briefs)
May 13, 2004... * Vision-Sciences (Natick, Massachusetts) reported that it has received FDA clearance to market thee ENT-2000VE a flexible video-enabled endoscope (VEE) for the ear, nose-and throat (ENT) market. The VEE architecture is a hybrid between a video...

Third Wave Technologies.(Product Briefs)
May 13, 2004... Third Wave Technologies (Madison, Wisconsin) said co-founder Lance Fors, PhD, is transitioning to the post of executive chairman in order to dedicate his efforts to the assessment and development of next-generation technologies. John Puisis,...

Intermagnetics general in $100m agreement to buy MRI devices.(Deals roundup)
May 20, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Intermagnetics General (Latham, New York) has agreed to acquire privately held MRI Devices Corp. (MRIDC, Waukesha, Wisconsin), a manufacturer of radiofrequency (RF) coils for magnetic resonance...

HIFU technologies no longer only 'lone voices' vs. cancer.
May 20, 2004... While most are familiar with the diagnostic benefits of ultrasound, researchers in Britain and France are achieving encouraging result using ultrasound not only to diagnose, but also to treat liver and prostate cancers. The high intensity...

With MACROscope, timing of tiling can be made manageable.
May 20, 2004... If given the choice, most of us would prefer to accomplish a task in 10 minutes versus eight hours. That's the advantage that GeneFocus (waterloo, Ontario), a division of Biomedical Photometrics, is giving to researchers who need an image...

FDA science forum focuses on agency's Critical Path initiative.
May 20, 2004... WASHINGTON -- The FDA on Tuesday kicked off its 10th annual science forum, titled "The Critical Path from Concept to Consumer," focusing on the recent slowdown in new product applications coming to the agency. The gathering builds on the...

Roche wins PCR patent ruling, promises appeal of Taq verdict.(Court report)
May 20, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Roche Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) reported that a U.S. District Court in California has upheld the enforceability of its patents covering polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA replication...

Waters (Milford, Massachusetts) reported receiving about $17.4 million from Applera (Norwalk, Connecticut) for payment of damages.(Court Report)
May 20, 2004... * Waters (Milford, Massachusetts) reported receiving about $17.4 million from Applera (Norwalk, Connecticut) for payment of damages. Applera--successor to Perkin-Elmer--is the named defendant in a patent infringement case involving three...

Cardinal Health.(Court Report)
May 20, 2004... * Cardinal Health (Dublin, Ohio) reported being notified by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that a previously disclosed informal inquiry initiated in October 2003 has been converted to a formal investigation. The SEC's initial...

25 recommendations for EU strategies on genetic testing.(Report from Europe)
May 20, 2004... A group of European Union experts has issued 25 recommendations on how to deal with genetic testing, saying that "careful reflection is needed to put an appropriate strategy into place to ensure the maximum potential of healthcare innovation."...

Service providers named for PACS program.(Report from Europe)
May 20, 2004... Millions of patients in the UK will get treatment more quickly and efficiently thanks to new picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) technology to be rolled out beginning this summer. The PACS system, which is being established...

DOBI receives ISO, CE mark certifications.(Report from Europe)
May 20, 2004... Development-stage company DOBI Medical International (Mahwah, New jersey) said it has received renewed European Union ISO, 9001:2000 and CE mark certifications, in addition to a new ISO 13485 certification that pertains specifically to...

Immunicon IPO underwriters exercise over-allotment option.(Financings roundup)
May 20, 2004... A Diagnostic & Imaging Week Staff Report In initial public offering news on the diagnostics front, Immunicon (Huntington Valley, Pennsylvania) reported that the underwriters of its recent offering of 6 million shares of common stock at the...

Sleep Solutions provides sleep apnea testing at VA centers.(Grants/contracts)
May 20, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Sleep Solutions (Annapolis, Maryland), a medical device and healthcare services company providing direct-to-patient obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) testing, reported two new agreements with Department...

Health Line in alliance with Roche on molecular testing.(Agreements roundup)
May 20, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Health Line Clinical Laboratories (Burbank, California), a regional provider of clinical laboratory services, said it has signed a five-year strategic alliance agreement with Roche Diagnostics...

BTG.(Deals roundup)
May 20, 2004... BTG (London), an intellectual property and technology commercialization company, said it has strengthened its non-invasive prenatal diagnosis patent portfolio through the purchase of a new cellular fetal DNA diagnostic. The technology has the...

AccuSoft.(Deals roundup)
May 20, 2004... AccuSoft (Northborough, Massachusetts), a provider of imaging technology, has acquired the KhorosPro product line from Khoral (Albuquerque, New Mexico), Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Used in commercial, government and...

In conjunction with Optical Sensors' (Minneapolis, Minnesota) name change to Vasamed, the company said it has acquired a proprietary impedance cardiography (ICG) technology for non-invasive cardiac output (NICO) monitoring.(Deals roundup)
May 20, 2004... In conjunction with Optical Sensors' (Minneapolis, Minnesota) name change to Vasamed, the company said it has acquired a proprietary impedance cardiography (ICG) technology for non-invasive cardiac output (NICO) monitoring. Paulita...

French group overseeing EVGN.
May 20, 2004... Inserm-Transfert, a subsidiary of France's National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), has been given managerial responsibility for the European Vascular Genomics Network (EVGN). The EVCN, which is composed of 25 university...

ABMC finds charges 'unsubstantiated'.
May 20, 2004... American Bio Medica (ABMC; Kinderhook, New York), which manufactures immunoassay diagnostic test kits, said that the internal investigation into an anonymous letter received by the company's independent accountants has been completed. An...

Roche Diagnostics reports voluntary recalls.(Briefly Noted)
May 20, 2004... Roche Diagnostics, a division of F. Hoffmann-La Roche (Basel, Switzerland), reported two voluntarily initiated recalls to make field corrective actions for the Tecan Clinical Workstation (TCW) that is used with Roche Diagnostics Amplicor CT/NG...

Advanced Medical Technology Association.(People In Places)
May 20, 2004... The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed; Washington) named Martyn Howgill executive director of its newly created independent research and education foundation, the Institute for Medical Technology Innovation. Howgill most recently...

Edwards Lifesciences.(People In Places)
May 20, 2004... Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, California) said that Andre-Michel Ballester, corporate vice president, Europe and intercontinental, has decided to leave the company to pursue other opportunities, effective May 31. Ballester's intercontinental...

Fischer Imaging.(People In Places)
May 20, 2004... Jasjit Suri, PhD, has been named senior director of applied research and development for Fischer Imaging (Denver, Colorado), a new position. Before joining Fischer, Suri was director and senior research scientist in the Biomedical Engineering...

Image Technology Laboratories.(People In Places)
May 20, 2004... Barry Muradian has joined Image Technology Laboratories (Kingston, New York) as vice president and chief operating officer. Muradian comes to ITL after careers at IDX and GE Medical Systems. ITL's WarpSpeed picture archiving and communications...