In Brief: Sterling
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Sterling: DirectRay direct-to-digital x-ray capture device gains 510(k) clearance Dec. 1, capping a seven-year, $60 mil. development project by the former DuPont Diagnostic Imaging division. Sterling expects to install the first flat-panel detectors in the first half of 1998, incorporating the panels in its iiRAD family of x-ray systems and selling the panels on an original equipment manufacturing basis to other x-ray manufacturers. Fischer Imaging and Acoma already have signed on to incorporate the technology into their x-ray systems. Sterling also is working to develop a retrofit for existing x-ray systems...
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