Advances in Diagnostic Imaging
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Diagnostic imaging equipment developers are using all the tools of high technology to capture images of the body's anatomical structures and to help physicians visualize the functioning of internal organ systems.
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Emageon Inc.
Only 1% of US hospitals are filmless, despite years of hype about the advantages of transmitting, viewing and storing diagnostic images digitally. Two-year-old Emageon has designed a suite of services and software that address some of the reasons hospitals are hesitant to adopt digital archiving and transmission, notably cost and technical difficulties of handling large images digitally.
Inovix Imaging Technologies Inc.
Diagnostic Imaging; Portable fluoroscopes. Inovix Imaging Technologies hopes to serve the alternate site market with, it claims, the most compact, the most portable real-time x-ray imaging system available.
Xicon Technologies LLC
Diagnostic Imaging; X-ray. Xicon Technologies hopes to catpure x-rays digitally with a system that is useful for both radiography and fluoroscopy. Xicon's imaging system makes use of the photoconductor thallium bromide to directly convert x-rays to electronic signals, without the need for an image intensifier and a camera.