PHILADELPHIA - Fusion software firm Mirada Solutions has signed a clutch of development deals and has expanded its product offerings.
The Oxford, U.K.-based company, a wholly owned subsidiary of PET development firm CTI Molecular Imaging of Knoxville, TN, reported that it has signed a licensing and development agreement with department of medical and molecular pharmacology at the University of California, Los Angeles for a kinetic information system (KIS). The KIS product, designed by Dr. Henry Huang and colleagues at UCLA, displays, analyzes, and simulates pharmacokinetic and biodistribution information with PET. It will be developed and positioned as both a free public domain analysis and educational tool for the academic community, as well as a commercial extension to the company's product offerings, Mirada said.
The company has also struck a deal with Toshiba Medical Systems of Japan for the distribution of Mirada's Fusion7D PET and image fusion platform in the country, as part of Toshiba's nuclear medicine and PET workstation offerings.
Mirada said that it has signed a worldwide distribution partnership with Siemens Medical Solutions for distribution of its Fusion7D PET/CT display, image fusion, and quantification platform as part of Siemens' e.soft nuclear medicine and PET workstation product families. The agreement is a nonexclusive worldwide distribution agreement, excepting Japan and South Korea, according to Mirada.
In related news, the developer has released the latest edition of its Fusion7D platform for Hitachi Medical Systems' Avia workstation, and said it plans to further extend PET and PET/CT analysis tools for Avia customers.
The company has also launched a new product integration toolkit, PETconnect. The product is a general-purpose library interface to Mirada's suite of imaging applications for PET and PET/CT, multimodality image fusion, functional imaging, and radiation therapy. Integration options include Java, CORBA, and Active X/COM interfaces, as well as conventional operating system and DICOM-level approaches, Mirada said.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
June 24, 2004
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