ARC 3000 showing detector printed circuit boards

ARC 3000 Mobile Collimator Cart & Storage Rack

ADAC Laboratories Vertex MCD gamma camera with automatic exchanger

Forte with Vantage attenuation correction

ADAC Laboratories was a

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medical device company specialising in

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gamma camera manufacturing and associated nuclear medicine processing computers and software. It was originally located at 10300 Bubb Road, Cupertino, California, 95014, then as the company expanded moved in turn to the following locations. 4747 Hellyer Avenue, San Jose, CA 951, then 255 San Geronimo Way, Sunnyvale, CA, then from ~1993, 540 Alder Drive

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, CA 95035. Although most people called the company ADAC or adaclabs, the name ADAC was an acronym of Analytical Development Associates Corporation. It was incorporated in California on October 14, 1970. In the early years ADAC developed both small nuclear medicine related hardware and software products but between 1975 and the 1980s, become better known for their computer systems such as the CDS and DPS acquisition and processing systems. In 1987-88 ADAC maintained Philips ARC gamma camera installed base under licence and In ~1991 Philips exited the nuclear medicine market. At that time, the Dutch vendor licensed its nuclear technology to both ADAC and Digital Design of France". The 1990s were the dominant decade for ADAC in terms of gamma camera production, manufacturing the Argus, Genesys, Polaris, Thyrus, Transcam, Vertex, Forte and Skylight gamma cameras as well as the EPIC detector and molecular coincidence detection (MCD) option, along with the Pegasys nuclear medicine processing workstation and radiation treatment planning systems (RTP). In 1993 it was sued by

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for patent infringement and in 1994 purchased Philips' nuclear medicine patent portfolio, consisting of 13 U.S. patents and 56 foreign patents and patent applications. "ADAC announced it had filed a patent infringement claim against Elscint in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, charging

with violating the Philips patents. ADAC filed the lawsuit in direct response to the

litigation". In 1996, ADAC was the recipient of a

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and during that year employed 720 people worldwide. ADAC Laboratories was acquired by

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in 2000 for $426 million, and incorporated into

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(later Philips Healthcare). ADAC continued to operate from the Milpitas location until around 2006 and was submitting FDA pre-market filings under the company name ADAC Laboratories, Milpitas, until 2006, where upon the 540 Alder Drive,

operation was closed and ADAC become fully integrated into the Philips organisation.

Products

Network based Nuclear Medicine Analysis and early products

Nuclear Medicine Acquisition/Processing and Processing Only Workstations

Digital Radiography Systems

Gamma Cameras

Products post Philips acquisition but issuing FDA pre-market filings as ADAC Laboratories, 540 Alder Dr., Milpitas, CA 95035.

Positron Emission Tomography Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional imaging technique that uses radioactive substances known as radiotracers to visualize and measure changes in metabolic processes, and in other physiological activities including blood flow, ...
(PET)

Radiation Treatment Planning Systems

Healthcare Information Systems (ADAC Laboratories, Milpitas and HCIS a subsidiary of ADAC Laboratories )

ADAC Laboratories were once the US domestic market leaders and as of 2021 are still in clinical use around the world and are also used for commercial & educational use

Corporate Affairs

Company Acquisitions

* 1993 SD&G Healthcare Systems, Inc., specializing in radiology information systems. * 1995 Community Health Computing (CHC), Inc., specializing in laboratory and radiology information systems * 1997 Cortet, Inc., a developer of integrated computer systems for use in cardiac catheterization laboratories

Patent Acquisitions

* ADAC purchases Philips' nuclear medicine patent portfolio, consisting of 13 U.S. patents and 56 foreign patents and patent applications. (1994)

Litigation

sues ADAC for

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, ADAC counter sues. (1993)

Corporate Officers

* Lowe, David L (CEO/Director) * Eckert, R Andrew (CEO/Director) * Starr, Robert A (Director) * Simone Phillip A (Treasurer) * Czerwinski, Stanley D (CEO/Director) *King, Graham O. (Director) * Masterson, Karen L (Corporate Secretary)

Related Entities with reference to 540 Alder Drive, Milpitas

* Adac Medical Technologies, Inc * Adac Laboratories * Adac Research & Manufacturing, Inc * Adac/SD&G Healthcare Systems, Inc * Adac Radiology Services, Inc * Adac Healthcare Partners, Inc

ADAC International Subsidiaries

* ADAC Laboratories (Australia) *ADAC Laboartories (Brazil) *ADAC Laboratories (Canada) * ADAC Laboratories (Denmark) (Jellingvej 5 9230 Svenstrup, Denmark, DK) * ADAC Laboratories (France) * ADAC Laboratories (Germany) * ADAC Laboratories (Italy) *ADAC Laboratoires (Japan) *ADAC Laboratories (Latin America) *ADAC Laboratories (Netherlands) (European H.Q.) *ADAC Laboratories (Pacific) * ADAC Laboratories (United Kingdom) Thame, Oxfordshire.

References

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