Stanford and GE Healthcare Team on New MR Cartilage Imaging Method

by Barbara Kram, Editor | September 05, 2006

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About Stanford University:
Stanford University is a world leader in the development of new medical imaging technologies. The Richard M. Lucas Center in the department of Radiology, where some of this work was based, is focused on the development of new imaging technologies and their application in medicine. IDEAL SSFP is one example of many new imaging methods that have been developed at Stanford. For more information on the Radiology department at Stanford, please visit http://radiology.stanford.edu/.

About GE Healthcare\t

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement solutions, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their 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 $15 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 45,000 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.

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