ONI Medical Systems Inc.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Two executives formerly with GE Medical Systems saw an opportunity to help imaging centers off-load, in an economical fashion, at least 25% of their MRI scans. The two founded ONI Medical Systems, developer of a miniaturized system dedicated to extremity imaging-hands, wrists, elbows, knees, ankles and feet--that would be at least one-third of the cost of the whole body scans offered by the major manufacturers, and small enough to fit in an orthopedics suite, without sacrificing image quality. Such a product doesn't necessarily compete with general-purpose whole body scanners, but complements them by decompressing the workload.
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