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In 1998, Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands fathered the Philips Healthcare Services group and appears determined that the son will soon become King of the <a href=”http://TransAmericanMedical.com”>medical equipment industry</a>. This move apparently came in response to GE Medical Systems’ announcement that it planned on becoming king itself of the ultrasound industry before the year 2000. Not to be “out-royaled”, Philips from the first year began acquisition frenzy in order to expand its subsidiary’s product portfolio well beyond its initial product line, which started in 1918 with medical x-ray tubes. At the end of Philips Healthcare Services first year, Philips Electronics added digital ultrasound systems to PHS’s portfolio by acquiring ATL Ultrasound of Washington. Only two years later, in late 2000, Philips expanded into nuclear medicine by absorbing ADAC Laboratories of California. From this on, Philips Healthcare Services has been driven with its goal to become the king of the Medical Equipments.

http://www.TransAmericanMedical.com Nearly a decade ago, Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands fathered Philips Healthcare Services and Royal Philips appears determined that "the son" will soon become King of the medical equipment industry.

http://TransAmericanMedical.com If you are a biomedical engineering technician, you may be in charge of locating and buying medical imaging parts for the biomedical equipment that you are in charge of maintaining. As you know, there are dozens and possibly hundreds of distributors of medical imaging parts available for you to choose between. The question is, how do you choose a medical imaging parts supplier?

http://TransAmericanMedical.com Magnetic resonance imaging, one of the most important medical imaging advances in disease detection, is dependent on the injection of contrast material to show specific tissue or to differentiate between healthy and diseased tissue. The materials used in this procedure are inclined to have the drawback of being either simply constructed and managed within the body but providing low contrast OR very complex in construction and offering sharper contrast but with not as much stability.

http://MedicalImagingNews.com Biomedical equipment technicians or BMETs represent a growing division of technically trained personnel whose primary responsibility is the maintaining and repairing equipment that deals with medical imaging like a CT scanner, ultrasound, x-ray MRI, and so on. The career path for BMETs appears to be improving as quickly as new imaging equipment is coming out.

We have used X-Rays as a medical imaging technique since approximately 1895 when Wilhelm Roentgen discovered that he was able to create images of internal bodily structures such as bones and tissues by passing electromagnetic waves through the body. He named the phenomenon "X" because he did not fully understand what made up the "rays". Since that time, X-Rays have been the building block upon which medical imaging technology and equipment for medical imaging have been built. Although the X-Ray (or radiograph) has long been a fundamental medical imaging tool, this approach has always had the down side that the images produced are not exact. The images require extremely careful analysis and interpretation. Scientists have been researching for years in an attempt to find a way to make the radiographic images better.