Shimadzu, Mikron team on sales

AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nov 7, 2005

Radiology equipment distributor Mikron Digital Imaging, of Livonia, MI, joined with Shimadzu Medical Systems to sell four of the Torrance, CA-based company's MobileDaRt digital radiography systems to the University of Michigan, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

The July sale allowed Mott to replace its analog mobile x-ray system with the portable digital x-ray technology.

Shimadzu and Mikron also combined to make Genesys Regional Medical Center the second hospital in the U.S. to purchase Shimadzu's AngioSpeed VC Safire direct flat-panel detector. The angiography C-arm acquires images at 30 frames per second, while rotating about a patient's axis at 60º per second.

Genesys is a 390-bed acute care hospital in Grand Blanc, MI.

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
November 8, 2005

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SourceOne, Shimadzu join forces, April 14, 2005

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