All medical imaging companies are facing squeezed margins, as hospitals and managed care groups band together into huge purchasing cooperatives to force prices down.

In many ways, the imaging companies are late arrivals to a party that software companies held for their customers years ago.

Michael Pallack of Manhattan worked for a medical imaging company.

Another newcomer, he said, is Anatomical Travelogue, a medical imaging company.

Then Ryan had gone down to a medical imaging company on the third floor, where they had conducted an echocardiogram.

Techtron is the largest United States color separation and electronic imaging company, with revenue of $83 million last year.

The pair are applying for a patent on the technology and they've already had interest from a major electronic imaging company.

But General Electric is not the only imaging company to see clinical diagnosis as a blockbuster market.

"Kodak is known as the imaging company, and that transfers easily to digital."

He founded Corbis, a digital imaging company, in 1989.