Financings in Brief: Imatron

Imatron: Completes $16 mil. private placement, funds from which will go to its HeartScan Imaging Inc. subsidiary, which provides coronary artery disease risk assessment using Imatron's Ultrafast CT scanner. Proceeds will allow HeartScan to "implement its plan for accelerating the opening of new centers" and "will allow us to establish HeartScan as a separate business which we expect will provide Imatron with a very strong continuing source of orders for our Ultrafast CT scanners as well as continued significant participation in HeartScan's service revenue stream," Imatron says. Investors in the placement include: SC Fundamental Value Fund, Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn, and Gruber & McBaine...