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develops, manufactures, and distributes diagnostic imaging products. The Company offers imaging agents that assist in the diagnosis of heart, vascular, and other diseases using nuclear imaging, echocardiography, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies. Lantheus Medical Imaging markets its products worldwide.
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...established in 1999 to commercialize AI methods for automated analysis of diagnostic images developed by a research group at Lund University. As a certified medical device manufacturer, EXINI has developed automated analysis platforms for cardiac, brain and bone scans. The company has always been innovative, developing web-based systems in the early 2000s. EXINIs most widely distributed platform is used to calculate the automated Bone Scan Index, which quantifies the bone tumor burden in patients with metastatic prostate cancer.
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