GlaxoSmithKline is building a clinical imaging center with Imperial College London.
"The only clinical imaging tools that Cushing could work with were the X-ray machine and the camera," Terry Dagradi, the Cushing Center coördinator, told me.
The two companies intend to provide a service that would permit different clinical imaging machines at medical institutions to exchange patient information with each other electronically and with internal databases like accounting, scheduling and patient records.
Hiroya Madarame, senior vice president of Fujitsu, said cooperation in clinical imaging systems could produce sales of 20 billion yen ($162.4 million) over the next four to five years.
Clinical, imaging and histology findings were reviewed.
The diagnosis is usually clinical; imaging plays a supplemental role.
Clinical imaging has conferred undoubted benefits on modern medical practice.
This includes the relationship of clinical imaging techniques to other investigations (for example endoscopy).
The 31P approach should prove more straightforward and robust on a clinical imaging system.
Cost-benefit discussions in preclinical imaging are expected to be similar to those in clinical imaging.
Whether this proves useful in routine clinical imaging remains to be seen.
