GE, Chinese University in Deal on Medical Imaging Project

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GE, Chinese University in Deal on Medical Imaging Project

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American electronics giant General Electric (GE) and a Chinese university signed an agreement Friday to set up an imaging application and research center for positron emission computed tomography, a scanning technology, and to assemble medical cyclotrons.

Under the agreement signed between GE and Wuhan-based Central China University of Sciences and Technology, both parties will co-produce medical cyclotrons called MINItrace.

Fan Mingwu, president of the university, said his university would provide the assembly site and workers and technicians for the project, while GE would provide special tools, testing equipment and parts together with three million US dollars in funding.

A training and service center will be set up in the university for users of the medical equipment in China and southeast Asia.

Fan said the cooperation would help China improve research and development capability in the field.

Until now, all the positron emission computed tomography systems operating in China are foreign products.

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