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Olympus, Canon Medical partner on endoscopic ultrasound

Canon Medical and Olympus announced that they reached an agreement to collaborate on endoscopic ultrasound technology.

Under the agreement, Canon will develop and manufacture diagnostic ultrasound used in endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS). Olympus handles the sales and marketing efforts in the collaboration.

The deal utilizes Canon’s Aplio i800 diagnostic EUS ultrasound and Olympus’ ultrasound endoscope. Canon and Olympus aim to provide the market with advanced EUS equipment for high-quality image diagnoses. The companies plan to focus on technological advancements and enhancing diagnostic performance. They plan to work together on global expansion, beginning in Japan and Europe.

According to a news release, Canon’s strengths lie in its advanced ultrasound image quality and proprietary technologies. Olympus offers early detection, diagnosis, staging and minimally invasive treatments. The companies hope the collaboration provides qualitat…

Cleveland Clinic, Canon plan a medical imaging research center

Cleveland Clinic and Canon today announced a strategic research partnership involving imaging and healthcare IT.

The two organizations expect to establish a comprehensive imaging research center. The center will potentially include shared workspace in an existing building in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood, adjacent to Cleveland Clinic’s main campus, according to a news release.

A cross-institutional team of clinician-scientists, researchers and engineers will pioneer state-of-the-art imaging technologies. Their joint research projects will focus on cardiology, neurology and musculoskeletal medicine. Their research will have three major components: pre-clinical imaging, human imaging and image analysis.

“This unique collaboration leverages Cleveland Clinic’s expertise in biomedical research and clinical care with Canon’s global leadership in imaging innovation and precision manufacturing,” Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Tom Mihaljevic said in a news release. …

Canon Medical Systems inks strategic partnership with ScImage

Canon Medical Systems USA announced that it completed a strategic partnership with cloud-native enterprise image management company ScImage.

Los Altos, California-based ScImage also provides PACS and image exchange solutions for the healthcare industry.

The two companies plan to use the partnership to broaden and advance Canon’s outreach in hemodynamics with its Fysicon QMAPP Hemo portfolio. As a result, Canon expects to increase its presence in the cardiac market. This includes offering innovative solutions and business models tailored to each client’s specific needs.

Canon’s Fysicon subsidiary designed QMAPP Hemo as a user-friendly option mounted to a standard interventional X-ray or operating table. It offers efficiency in the interventional lab without losing patient or exam data, according to a news release.

ScImage founder and CEO Sai Raya noted that the companies have “a shared vision and perfectly complementary prod…

Canon Medical Systems inks strategic partnership with ScImage

Canon Medical Systems USA announced that it completed a strategic partnership with cloud-native enterprise image management company ScImage.

Los Altos, California-based ScImage also provides PACS and image exchange solutions for the healthcare industry.

The two companies plan to use the partnership to broaden and advance Canon’s outreach in hemodynamics with its Fysicon QMAPP Hemo portfolio. As a result, Canon expects to increase its presence in the cardiac market. This includes offering innovative solutions and business models tailored to each client’s specific needs.

Canon’s Fysicon subsidiary designed QMAPP Hemo as a user-friendly option mounted to a standard interventional X-ray or operating table. It offers efficiency in the interventional lab without losing patient or exam data, according to a news release.

ScImage founder and CEO Sai Raya noted that the companies have “a shared vision and perfectly complementary prod…

Canon establishes healthcare subsidiary

Canon announced today that established its Canon Healthcare USA subsidiary to strengthen its presence in the American medical market.

Through establishing a presence in the market, Canon seeks to accelerate the growth of its overall medical business.

According to a news release, this represents part of a “grand strategic transformation” of the company’s business portfolio. It aims to realize future growth and its latest phase — Phase VI — has an objective to strengthen its competitiveness.

This strengthening extends to computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It also centers around diagnostic ultrasound systems and components such as X-ray tubes, X-ray detectors and key MRI components. The company also said it aims to make strides in healthcare IT and in vitro diagnostics.

Canon said it decided to consider the greater Cleveland area as a candidate for establishing the healthcare unit. Cleveland houses the h…

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FDA clears Canon Medical AI-based image reconstruction tech

Canon Medical (NYSE:CAJ) announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its advanced intelligent clear-IQ engine (AiCE).

Tustin, Calif.-based Canon Medical’s AiCE expands the company’s deep learning reconstruction (DLR) technology platform with its compatibility with the Vantage Orian 1.5T MR system for artificial intelligence-based imaging. It is also available with the Vantage Galan 3T MR system.

Vantage Orian uses a deep learning algorithm to differentiate true signal from noise so it can suppress noise while enhancing signal during image reconstruction, according to a news release. AiCE helps to offer the system high-quality images and seamless integration into routine practice.

“The Vantage Orian was designed to increase productivity while ensuring patient comfort and delivering uncompromised clinical confidence,” Canon Medical Systems USA managing director of the MR business unit Jonathan Furuyama said in a news release. “Now…

Canon wins FDA clearance for speedy MRI

Canon (NYSE:CAJ) announced that it received FDA clearance for its compressed Speeder technology to speed up MRI scan times.

The Speeder technology, run on Canon Medical Systems USA’s Vantage Orian 1.5T MR system allows for clinicians to reconstruct full-resolution images from under-sampled data through iterative reconstruction, improving throughput and offering substantial amounts of time in between exams to clean or disinfect the scanner, if necessary.

Canon’s technology is also available on the Vantage Galan 3T MR system to support image acceleration and avoid unfolding error artifacts seen with standard parallel imaging.

Compressed Speeder is a part of a new version of Canon’s M-Power software that comes standard with Windows 10 and embedded with cybersecurity solutions from Canon Medical, keeping patient data secure, along with offering whitelisting functions for clinicians to have special access to authorized applications and proce…