Mediso
Mediso is a Hungarian manufacturer of nuclear medicine imaging equipment. Their range includes gamma cameras, PET scanners and software components, for clinical and preclinical imaging. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Budapest.[1] Mediso is one of Hungary's largest outward foreign direct investors.[2][3]
As well as manufacturing equipment, the company also operates two diagnostic nuclear medicine centres, in Debrecen and Budapest, representing two-thirds of Hungary's PET-CT capacity.[4]
History[edit]
The company began as a provider of servicing for the products of the state-owned Gamma Művek (Gamma Works) instrument maker, and started producing its own equipment in 1994.[5] In 1998 it acquired the nuclear medicine assets of Gamma Works.[6][7]
Products[edit]
Mediso is unique amongst clinical diagnostic imaging manufacturers in offering a modular three-modality combined SPECT-PET-CT imaging system.[8] This system was selected by the UK's metrology institute, the NPL, as the basis for its work in quantification of nuclear medicine.[9]
The company is active in preclinical imaging, marketing a range of hybrid imaging systems in many combinations including PET-MR and SPECT-MR.[10][11] Preclinical products were initially developed in collaboration with Bioscan, an American company, with Mediso as OEM, however following a dispute over payment and contract terms Bioscan was dissolved in 2013 and ongoing support for the products developed under the partnership fell to Mediso.[12][13][14]
References[edit]
- ^ "Chronology". Mediso Medical Imaging Systems. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ Trąpczyński, Piotr; Puślecki, Łukasz; Jarosiński, Mirosław (2016). Competitiveness of CEE economies and businesses. Switzerland: Springer. p. 158. ISBN 9783319396545.
- ^ Sass, Magdolna; Vlčková, Jana (December 2019). "Just Look behind the Data! Czech and Hungarian Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Multinationals" (PDF). Acta Oeconomica. 69 (S2): 73–105. doi:10.1556/032.2019.69.S2.4.
- ^ Mihály, Sipos (16 March 2010). "Látogatóban a Mediso Kft.-nél". Elektronet (in Hungarian).
- ^ Szegedi, Imre; Csanádi, Márton (30 May 2011). "A gamma-sugarak bűvöletében él Bagaméry István". Innotéka (in Hungarian).
- ^ "Inside look - Mediso". Evolution Online. SKF. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
- ^ "István Bagaméry". Gábor Dénes Klub (in Hungarian). Retrieved 27 July 2020.
- ^ Wang, Ge; Zhang, Jie; Gao, Hao; Weir, Victor; Yu, Hengyong; Cong, Wenxiang; Xu, Xiaochen; Shen, Haiou; Bennett, James; Furth, Mark; Wang, Yue; Vannier, Michael; Chen, Xiaoyuan (29 June 2012). "Towards Omni-Tomography—Grand Fusion of Multiple Modalities for Simultaneous Interior Tomography". PLOS ONE. 7 (6): e39700. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039700. PMC 3387257. PMID 22768108.
- ^ "Nuclear medicine". NPL. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ Shah, N. Jon (2018). Hybrid MR-PET Imaging: Systems, Methods and Applications. Royal Society of Chemistry. p. 221. ISBN 978-1-78801-074-0.
- ^ Schober, Otmar; Kiessling, Fabian; Debus, Jürgen (2020). Molecular Imaging in Oncology. Springer Nature. p. 127. ISBN 978-3-030-42618-7.
- ^ "MEDISO v. BIOSCAN, Decision of the United States District Court of Columbia, 11 Dec 2014". Jus Mundi. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
- ^ "Mediso Maintains World-Wide Support for NanoSPECT/CT® and NanoPET/CT® Users". Mediso Medical Imaging Systems. 27 October 2013. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
- ^ "BIOSCAN, Inc". OpenCorporates. Retrieved 27 July 2020.