Milwaukee-based Alpha Source has acquired Tamarac, Fla.-based Medical Optics—a move that expands Alpha Source’s medical equipment service offerings. Medical Optics, a global leader of endoscope and surgical instrument repair, will operate as a business unit of Alpha Source.
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A Gates Vascular Institute (GVI) patient celebrated her 103rd birthday after a successful transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure using Toshiba Medical’s Infinix-i interventional x-ray system. A leader in TAVR, GVI has recently performed its 500th procedure.
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FDA has cleared the ARTIS pheno, a robotic C-arm angiography system from Siemens Healthineers created for use in minimally invasive interventional procedures. The system possesses a zen40HDR flat panel detector, GIGALIX X-ray tube, and new 2k recording technology.
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Siemens Healthineers has announced that the FDA has cleared the company’s Compressed Sensing technology, which slashes the long acquisition times associated with MRI to enable dramatically shortened scans. For example, cardiac cine imaging with Compressed Sensing can be completed in just 16 seconds rather than the traditional 4 minutes.
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The emerging cardiac therapies market in the U.S. and Western Europe is advancing at double-digit rates, propelled by the growing adoption of minimally invasive procedures by interventional cardiologists, technological advancements, supportive reimbursement policies, and an aging population.
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