General Electric Invests for Growth in a Crucial Area
General Electric's (NYSE: GE) healthcare business today announced the acquisition of Prismatic Sensors, a Swedish start-up company focused on photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) detectors.
In plain English, PCCT technology offers the potential for better visualization in GE's CT scanners. GE's press release quoted Norbert Pelc, an emeritus professor of radiology at Stanford University, as saying: "I expect the impact on the CT field will be large, for example, improved dose efficiency, particularly for low dose acquisitions and for applications that benefit from tissue specificity.'
A patient going into a CT scanner. Image source: Getty Images.
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