Hitachi primes 1.2T Oasis for commercial launch

May 9, 2008 Hitachi primes 1.2T Oasis for commercial launch Greg Freiherr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hitachi executives hope their booth at the ISMRM meeting will serve as a springboard for sales of their open 1.2T Oasis, set to begin shipping this month. The new high-field scanner is the company's chance to rekindle a market that has all but collapsed in the past several years with the advent of compact wide-bore 1.5T devices and expanding clinical applications for such high-performance systems. The Japanese company made its name in the MR market a decade ago with the release of its wildly successful line of low-field open scanners. In their heyday, these scanners accounted for about 40% of new MR sales in the U.S., but the flood of demand has slowed to a trickle in recent years.

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