
A company within the GE Healthcare Corporation, which develops, manufactures, installs and services cyclotrons and chemistry systems used at the first stage in cancer, alzheimer and cardiovascular diagnostics. A cyclotron is a particle accelerator that produce short-lived radioactive isotopes. Bound to a suger molecule they form a trace element that can be injected into a patient. When cancer cells eat the sugar solution the trace element becomes visible on an image by using a PET camera.