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Cardinal Health (Dublin, Ohio) reported an exclusive agreement with UltraSPECT (Haifa, Israel) to provide cost-effective imaging processing software to cut scanning time in half or double the image resolution of existing nuclear medical imaging equipment.

Terms of the multiyear agreement, give Cardinal exclusive U.S. distribution rights for UltraSPECT's Wide Beam Reconstruction image processing packages for cardiac and bone nuclear imaging applications. WBR products address the clinical needs for significant reduction in acquisition time, boosting patient throughput and comfort without sacrificing image quality, and for substantial improvement in image resolution in bone imaging, offering better lesion localization and higher diagnostic confidence. The image processing packages are compatible with most major brands of nuclear medical imaging equipment.

Cardinal Health provides products and services that help hospitals, physician offices and pharmacies reduce costs, improve safety, productivity and profitability, and deliver better care to patients.

In other agreements: Belimed (Anaheim, California) a developer of infection control systems, and 3M Sterilization Assurance (St. Paul, Minnesota), a developer of sterilization monitoring products and a part of 3M HealthCare (St. Paul), have formed a collaboration to jointly promote best practices in sterile processing in the U.S. With infection prevention a key issue in the industry today, the two organizations said they will work together to provide objective educational resources to customers on sterilization monitoring practices. This partnership was reported at the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN; Denver Colorado) Annual Congress being held in Anaheim, California this week.