Advanced visualization firm Vital Images of Minnetonka, MN, and Toshiba Medical Systems of Tochigi, Japan, have renewed their global distribution agreement for the next five years, to December 31, 2013.
Toshiba will continue to offer Vital Images' products through its subsidiaries and distributors in more than 50 nations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, and Asia, including Japan.
Toshiba has provided Vital Images' advanced visualization and analysis software for the Aquilion and other CT scanners since 2000. Toshiba this week announced that it is buying the Advanced Visualization Imaging System (AVIS) division from Barco of Kortrijk, the Netherlands, and said that the acquisition will not affect its relationship with Vital Images.
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