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Strategies & Market Trends : Imatron Is For Real..... 7 Billion Dollar Market....

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To: James Strauss who wrote ()6/13/1996 4:01:00 PM
From: James Strauss   of 113
 
Here's another post taken from the internet...

Jim
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You wrote:
>
>Jacob S. Rosenberg (Jacob.S.Rosenberg@gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote:
>: Dr. Salkoff,
>
>: I'm an investor interested in Imatron (IMAT on NASDAQ). Although
the points
>: you make are valid, aren't there a number of other scanner
manufacturers?
>: Imatron's claim to fame is that there scanners are faster. But there
is
>: still competition. Is there some other compelling feature about
their
>: scanners? Am I making a technical error?
>
>Imatron owns all the patents (with the exception of a few which they
>transferred to Siemens (their distributor) under a co-development
>agreement). There is no competition for this scanner. Nothing else
is
>capable of non-invasively taking pictures between heartbeats! And,
some
>37% of their expenses are for new R&D, just in case anyone was
thinking
>of trying to catch up with them.
>
>Seems a pretty compelling situation to me...
>
>Regards,
>
> -- Paul. (flint@io.org)
>
>DISCLAIMER: Just another indvidual investor, grinding his axe. Do
your
>own research, make your own decisions.
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