Boston signs cardio imaging pact with Philips and Siemens
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Boston Scientific is to combine its iLab ultrasound imaging system with interventional X-ray systems developed by Philips Healthcare and Siemens Medical Solutions as part of a collaboration with the imaging giants. The pact between the companies will see the iLab integrated into Philips’ Allura Xper system and Siemens’ Axiom Artis and Artis zee systems. The iLab system is designed to be installed directly into a cardiac catheterisation laboratory or radiology suite alongside an X-ray system. According to Boston, the technology enables physicians to incorporate intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) into procedures. IVUS uses high-frequency sound waves and provides physicians a 360-degree view inside the heart and coronary vessels, to help diagnosis and determine treatment options such as balloon and stent sizes. In 2008, Boston signed a similar collaboration with GE Healthcare, whereby iLab was integrated into the Innova cardiovascular X-ray system (www.clinica.co.uk, 15 October 2008).
You may also be interested in...
Alere aided by professional diagnostics sales in fourth quarter
Alere’s professional diagnostics business helped the firm record overall revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2010, offsetting a fall in influenza-based sales in North America.
Integra and Stout to work on expandable interbody device
Integra LifeSciences has gained exclusive worldwide rights from Stout Medical to develop and commercialise an expandable interbody fusion device.
Gen-Probe eyes portfolio expansion to help boost molecular diagnostics credentials
Gen-Probe recently launched its Panther automated molecular diagnostics system in Europe with the aim of bringing another dimension to its product portfolio. Joseph Harvey met the firm’s CEO, Carl Hull, at the launch of the product in Frankfurt to find how high the firm has set its sights in the molecular diagnostics sector and how it is going to achieve its goals