Analogic announces major CT product sales agreement.PEABODY Peabody (pē`bədē, –bädē), city (1990 pop. 47,039), Essex co., NE Mass., a suburb of Boston, on the Danvers River; settled c.1633, inc. as South Danvers 1855, name changed 1868. , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1994--Analogic Corp. (NASDAQ-ALOG), a leading manufacturer of high precision medical and industrial diagnostic and measurement instruments and equipment, today announced that it has entered into a major agreement with two of its large multi-international medical diagnostic imaging systems customers, to supply, for worldwide sale, versions of its newly developed lightweight, low power computerized tomography computerized tomography n. Abbr. CT Computerized axial tomography. Noun 1. computerized tomography - a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of (CT) system. During the past several years, Analogic An`a`log´ic a. 1. Of or belonging to analogy. has devoted a considerable portion of its creative engineering effort and resources toward the development of this new class of CT machine. The new CT system differs from previously available medical imagers in that it is lighter in weight, lower in power, mobile, is capable of making a volumetric volumetric /vol·u·met·ric/ (vol?u-met´rik) pertaining to or accompanied by measurement in volumes. vol·u·met·ric adj. Of or relating to measurement by volume. scan without the patient moving and can operate over a much wider range of environmental and power conditions than other such systems. It also operates with a higher effective utilization of total available x-rays X-rays X-rays, or roentgen rays, are electromagnetic waves in which periodically variable electric and magnetic fields are perpendicular to each other and to the direction of propagation. and is lower in cost than other systems of comparable image quality. In addition to use in community hospitals and remote locations within developed countries, the new system has been specifically designed for use in developing countries where cost, power efficiency, weight, and reliability are of primary importance. Other expected uses of this type of machine are in surgical, trauma trauma /trau·ma/ (traw´mah) (trou´mah) pl. traumas, trau´mata [Gr.] 1. injury. 2. psychological or emotional damage. , emergency room areas and in various military environments. CONTACT: Analogic Corp. John A. Tarello, 508/977-3000 |
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