Siemens

Siemens Healthcare is the second largest medical devices company in the world (based on annual sales), with sales of $17.4 billion. Specializing in the imaging, IT, diagnostics and workflow soluti...

The Top 10 Medical Device Companies

Medical devices are crucial to the process of diagnosis and treatment in modern medicine. Sales in this field reach billions of dollar a year, with Johnson & Johnson making $30 billion alone in...

Sweden

The Scandinavian country of Sweden is home to a thriving biotechnology industry, one of the top 5 in Europe. Europe has become a global center for the industry, helped by €2 billion worth of fu...

Germany

Germany is one the top 5 countries in Europe for the biotechnology industry. The €2 billion Innovative Medicines stimulus from the EU has helped, but that is spread over the continent. Over a d...

Siemens Healthcare and Varian Partner to Advance Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy Systems

A new partnership agreement between Siemens Healthcare and Varian Medical Systems has been established to advance radiation treatment planning...

Siemens, Varian initiate collaboration in North America

Siemens Healthcare and Varian Medical Systems have launched their partnership in North America.  -More- 

Erich R. Reinhardt Appointed to Board of Directors of Varian Medical Systems

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (NYSE:VAR) today announced that Erich R. Reinhardt, Ph.D., former President and CEO of Siemens Healthcare, has been a...

Varian Software Successfully Connected with Siemens Linear Accelerators

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Varian Medical Systems (NYSE:VAR) and Siemens Healthcare today announced that clinicians at The Ohio State University (Ohio State) are now using Varian...

Varian Invests $15M in Augmenix

Palo Alto, CA-based Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR), the supplier of radiation technology for treating cancer patients, said today it has agreed to make a $15 million equity investment in Waltham,...

Institut Curie to install Varian radiotherapy equipment

Paris based cancer center Institut Curie has ordered four radiotherapy treatment systems - three Varian TrueBeam systems and a Novalis Tx machine - from Varian Medical Systems.

RaySearch and Siemens terminate development and licensing agreement

In May 2009 RaySearch Laboratories entered into a long-term development and licensing agreement with Siemens Healthcare. Under the agreement RaySearch provided a number of treatment planning modules f...

Varian Medical shares rise on positive 3Q earnings

Shares of Varian Medical Systems Inc. jumped 13 percent in afterhours trading Thursday after the company reported a 20 percent rise in its fourth-quarter profit fueled by higher device sales.Its fore...

Generalized eMC implementation for Monte Carlo dose calculation of electron beams from different machine types.

The electron Monte Carlo (eMC) dose calculation algorithm available in the Eclipse treatment planning system (Varian Medical Systems) is based on the macro MC method and uses a beam model applicable t...

Total hCG tests.

There are 12 types of automated total hCG tests sold today, the Abbott Architect, Abbott AxSym, the Beckman Access 2. Beckman DxI 800, the Ortho Vitros EciQ, Roche Elecsys hCG+β, Siemens ACS180, Siem...

Rotational IMRT delivery using a digital linear accelerator in very high dose rate 'burst mode'.

Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in arc-based IMRT, through the use of 'conventional' multileaf collimator (MLC) systems that can treat large tumor volumes in a single, or very few pa...

Erratum to: Focus on time-of-flight PET: the benefits of improved time resolution.

Spectral differences in 6 MV beams with matched PDDs and the effect on chamber response.

The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) has installed an Elekta Synergy platform linac to establish a direct megavoltage primary standard calibration service, instead o...