{"id":1831,"date":"2016-03-23T02:47:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T02:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2016-03-28T06:22:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T05:22:28","slug":"canon-buys-toshiba-medical-systems-making-it-a-subsidiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/news\/1831","title":{"rendered":"Canon Buys Toshiba Medical Systems, Making It a Subsidiary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under its Excellent Global Corporation Plan\u2014a five-year initiative launched this year\u2014Canon intends to cultivate its health-care business as a pillar of the corporation\u2019s next-generation growth. Following its agreement with Toshiba, particularly, the company intends to accelerate its business push into the medical equipment field.<\/p>\n<p>Canon\u2019s new subsidiary TMSC markets a wide range of products, and is a leader in X-ray computed tomography (CT) systems, including diagnostic X-ray systems, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems, diagnostic ultrasound systems and diagnostic nuclear medicine systems. It also offers advanced medical imaging solutions and in-vitro diagnostics for individualized applications.<\/p>\n<p>Canon\u2019s proprietary technology includes high-speed dynamic X-ray imaging sensor technology and other imaging devices, associated elemental technologies, photoacoustic tomography technology (selected for Japan&#8217;s national program called ImPACT, standing for \u201cimpulsing paradigm change through disruptive technologies\u201d), medical robotic system technologies, and minimally invasive technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Leveraging the production technologies and R&amp;D capabilities of both companies, the Canon Group will promote joint technological development, thereby positioning itself to provide innovative new products and services in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under its Excellent Global Corporation Plan\u2014a five-year initiative launched this year\u2014Canon intends to cultivate its health-care business as a pillar of the corporation\u2019s next-generation growth. Following its agreement with Toshiba, particularly, the company intends to accelerate its business push into the medical equipment field. Canon\u2019s new subsidiary TMSC markets a wide range of products, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[56,123],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry","category-news","tag-medical","tag-toshiba"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}