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UCI Irvine, Toshiba Plan Imaging Center

University of California, Irvine’s School of Medicine has teamed with Tustin-based Toshiba America Medical Systems on a medical imaging research center.

The UCI/Toshiba CT Education and Research Center is set to open to UCI medical students and staff later this month at University Research Park.

The center will teach students and Toshiba customers how to use the company’s imaging equipment, said Larry Gold, vice president of business development for the teaching hospital.

As part of the three-year deal, the medical school is developing a medical education program for cardiac computed tomography imaging techniques using Toshiba’s new Aquilion 64 CFX CT scanning device.

Aquilion is designed to improve the detection and treatment of heart disease. UCI’s also planning to install several of Toshiba’s Vital Images work stations for medical students and faculty members to view, manipulate and store data picked up by the system.

Toshiba will send a minimum of 34 client doctors per year to UCI for Aquilion training, according to the deal. The course is designed to meet guidelines for medical imaging set out by the American College of Cardiology and satisfying Medicare reimbursement terms.

Toshiba America Medical Systems, which employs 250 people in Orange County, is a unit of Japan’s Toshiba Corp.

,Vita Reed

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