Analogic conceives, designs and manufactures complete leading-edge CT systems for medical applications. Leveraging our historic strengths in data acquisition, digital signal processing, technical excellence and cost-effective design, our products enable our customers and strategic partners to enter their markets expeditiously with significant price/performance advantages..

Innovation is an Analogic hallmark as illustrated by the success of our mid-range scanner design and this partial list of CT milestones:

Our customers for CT products range from the world's leading OEMs to niche market companies developing products and applications for non-traditional radiological markets such as surgery, oncology, neurology, and cardiology.

We apply our considerable expertise in X-ray beamline technology, data acquisition systems and detectors to the design of innovative, complete OEM CT systems for new or rapidly emerging niche markets. Almost a decade ago, our initial scanner was the world’s first lightweight, mobile CT, which enabled clinicians to use CT in trauma centers, acute care facilities and surgical theaters. In recent years we have developed several niche CT systems, including the CT portion of an innovative dual-modality, or hybrid, nuclear imaging system that places a CT beamline on the gantry of a Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) scanner. The dual-imaging capability combines the precise anatomical imaging of the CT with the functional imaging capabilities of the SPECT system in a “fused” image, enabling clinicians to precisely locate specific regions of interest on the combined scan. We also developed a low-cost modular CT scanner for the developing world, where overall system cost and shortages of trained staff had limited the ability to bring the benefits of CT technology to millions of people.

Last year we began shipping an innovative CT with a large patient opening, or bore, for cancer radiation therapy. The imposing gantry includes a complete CT system and a large powerful linear accelerator for radiation therapy. Radiotherapists use the CT to image a tumor in near real time, precisely determining its location morphologically and calculating the shortest possible path to deliver optimal blasts of radiation to the tumor and minimize potential radiation damage to healthy adjacent tissue. This innovative use of CT is in its infancy and holds tremendous potential for the treatment of many cancers.

We are currently developing several new families of niche CT systems. One is a full-featured, multi-slice, mid-range system designed specifically for small to medium-sized hospitals, providing a breadth of advanced CT functionality and flexibility they could not otherwise afford. We are also developing large-bore systems that will enable clinicians to image larger areas, of particular value in diagnosing and treating cancer. Large-bore systems also enable clinicians to scan obese patients who cannot be examined by conventional CT equipment.

Over a year ago we began intensive development of a new hybrid PET/CT system, utilizing an innovative PET scintillator technology that can dramatically reduce the cost of otherwise expensive PET systems. Combining this new technology with our advanced CT technology should enable clinicians to develop more accurate diagnoses and plans for surgery, particularly for the detection and treatment of cancer. PET/CT also has advantages in imaging certain parts of the body, such as the head, neck, abdomen and pelvis. With a tradition of innovation in CT system design, we believe we can continue to increase our CT business by developing the niche CT systems of the future.

Analogic welcomes opportunities to develop product ideas that will push the state of the art in CT imaging. More than a design shop, we offer full turnkey support, including clinical trials, regulatory submittals, service and operating manuals, direct end-customer shipment, and ISO 9000 quality assurance and technical support.

Our CT team, comprised of over 100 engineers, physicists, and technical support personnel, is one of the largest groups in the world dedicated to the advancement of CT technology. We employ a broad range of engineering design specialties, including high speed digital, precision analog, high power, high voltage, X-ray physics, integrated circuit, optic, motion systems, precision mechanical, embedded software, control system software, and GUI software design, as well as imaging mathematics, to name just a few.

Analogic has substantial manufacturing capacity with more than 50,000 square feet of floor space for CT assembly and lead-lined system test bays.

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