Sunday, August 22, 2010

(MED) GE To Get Its Heart Tech From Israel

"If you’re going to compete in Computed Tomography (CT) you’ve got to have heart, and GE Healthcare now has it, thanks to a deal with an Israeli start-up.

GE Healthcare signed a strategic partnership to bring cardiovascular Computed Tomography (CT) technology from start-up Arineta Ltd. of Israel to the hospital market. (Heart image from GE Healthcare.)

CT has been around for four decades but is only now capable of imaging the heart quickly enough to provide freeze-frame images of the muscle in action."












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