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Medical imaging company Barco has signed a display contract with Mortsel, Belgium-based Agfa HealthCare as part of a German hospital digitalization project, said Barco.
Barco has added two new point-of-care solutions to its product line, the ProScribe and CliniScape mobile point of care devices.
Barco has signed an agreement to acquire the Saronno, Italy-based display company FIMI, a fully owned subsidiary of Royal Philips Electronics' Healthcare Business, in order to expand into new market segments, such as mobile point-of-care devices.
Barco has received an order from GE Healthcare to supply its Coronis Fusion 6MP DL diagnostic displays to St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo, Japan.
Once in hospital, MI patients should be treated without delay to cut their risk of death, ideally within even less than the 90 minutes currently recommended by clinical guidelines, according to a study published May 18 in the British Medical Journal.
Barco revealed an upgraded version of the Nio Color 3MP diagnostic display system, featuring a high-bright LCD panel, at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) this week in Vienna, Austria.
Barco showed an expanded portfolio of new family of clinical review displays at the 94th annual meeting of the Radiological Society of the North America (RSNA) in Chicago.
Barco (Booth 6210) is introducing the world’s first 6MP wide-screen diagnostic color display, the Coronis Fusion 6MP DL.
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Visualization technology provider Barco has inked a two-installation agreement with the Medical Centre Leeuwarden, a teaching hospital located in Leeuwarden and Harlingen, the Netherlands.
Barco Medical has released a new graphics display controller for 3D imaging and digital mammography in radiology departments, the MXRT-7300.
Barco has released an upgraded version of its Coronis 5MP Mammo mammography display system.
Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems has made the commercial debut of its Voxar 3D product line: Voxar 3D 6.3.2 Workstation and Voxar 3D 6.3.2 ActiveX.
Barco has landed a contract to supply PACS displays to the Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center in Guangzhou, South China.
Under an agreement with PACS provider MedicalCommunications, Barco will provide Nürnberg Hospital South in Nürnberg, Germany, with color and grayscale display systems for its reading applications, along with an application for online quality assurance and asset management.
Barco announced this morning it is selling its advanced visualization business to Toshiba Medical Systems of Tokyo, Japan, via its newly formed, wholly owned subsidiary, Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems Europe (TMVS), located in Edinburgh, Scotland. For Toshiba, the acquisition will build in-house critical core competencies—the development of 3D volume rendering and advanced visualization capabilities for all Toshiba modalities.
Barco has introduced a new version of its Voxar 3D advanced
visualization product that integrates into Fujifilm’s Synapse PACS
platform.
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