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SALT LAKE CITY – September 17, 2007
New Agreement Adds ILUMA, Extends GE’s Broad 3-D Imaging Portfolio
GE to Become Exclusive Distributor of Cone-Beam CT Scanner
Ear, Nose & Throat professionals can now obtain state-of-the-art Cone Beam CT (computed tomography) technology from GE Healthcare. Through an exclusive distribution agreement with IMTEC Corporation, GE is now the sole distributor of the ILUMA Cone Beam CT Scanner to medical professionals in the United States. The ILUMA Scanner provides radiographic imaging for sinus, skull base, head and neck and temporal bone assessment.
High Quality Image Resolution, Small Size
The ILUMA delivers high quality medical CT image resolution with 14-bit images as thin as 0.09mm voxel size. Voxel size is the standard measure of 3-D image resolution.
The attractive, compact ILUMA Scanner is the lightest in-office CT scanner
on the market at 770 pounds. Additionally, the scanner has a small footprint
which may be important to medical professionals where space is frequently
a key consideration.
Easy-to-use, Powerful Software Tools
The ILUMA 3-D Vision Software was designed for ease-of-use but also provides a comprehensive set of 3-D tools needed by medical professionals. Among its available 3-D tools:
- • Ability to automatically generate panoramic images potentially saving time.
- • Volume rendering with image presets that may enhance workflow.
- • Measurement tools for 3-D and 2-D images.
- • Surface rendering of skin and soft tissue.
ILUMA integrates with GE’s InstaTrak surgical navigation system to further streamline workflow.
“We are excited to be part of this strategic venture,” said Tim Thompson,
President & CEO of IMTEC Corporation. “There is an increasing demand
from the medical community to obtain and utilize 3-D images within
doctors’ own practices. Adding the ILUMA Scanner to their portfolio of
imaging solutions may help or potentially enable GE’s customers to realize
the power of using 3-D in diagnosis and planning.”
IMTEC CORPORATION: 10 Years of CT Experience
The ILUMA Scanner combines 10 years of industrial CT experience gained from high-technology industries, such as defense and aerospace, with expertise in implant and surgical guides. The scanner includes proprietary FlashCT® acquisition and reconstruction software that minimizes patient motion and metal artifacts and reconstructs images across multiple processors. Automated motion reduction is critical to providing ultra-high quality 3-D images for medical applications. The FlashCT® technology proved its worthiness, winning the prestigious R&D 100 Award in 2003.
ABOUT GE HEALTHCARE
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring
systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.
GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers
to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases
and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a
new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis,
pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered
in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric
Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people
committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more
than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our
website at www.gehealthcare.com.
ABOUT IMTEC CORPORATION
IMTEC Corporation, headquartered in Ardmore, Oklahoma, is a global dental
specialty products company, and an engineering technology firm located in
Los Alamos, New Mexico. The company provides high quality cone beam CT scanners
for the dental and medical markets, in addition to high quality engineering
design and development services. IMTEC developed the high-speed Computed
Tomography system branded FlashCT®. IMTEC Corporation sells over
600 dental implant products in the U.S. and eighty-four countries, including
the highly popular Sendax MDI mini-dental implant system.
(Note: Iluma is a trademark of IMTEC Imaging, LLC. FlashCT® is
a registered trademark of Hytec Incorporated)