GE HealthCare (Chicago,IL,USA;www.gehealthcare.com) has entered into an agreement to acquire IMACTIS (Grenoble,France;www.imactis.com), an innovator in the rapidly growing field of computed tomography(CT)  interventional guidance across an array of care areas.

IMACTIS has created CT-Navigation,an ergonomic universal solution that provides stereotactic needle guidance,enabling intuitive pre-planning and comtinuous control throughout a wide range of procedures,from diagnosis to treatment.

GE HealthCare is a leader in CT with a large install base and global scale,which provides significant opportunities for the IMACTIS CT-Navigation system at existing client sites.