CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.

History

YearDetail
1930 Establishment of Nihon Iryo Denki Ltd as a sales company for medical devices
1939 Merger of Shibaura Manufacturing and Tokyo Electric Co. Ltd.
1942 And the establishment of Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co. Ltd.
1967 Toshiba absorbed Nihon Iryo Denki Ltd through a wartime business merger.
1976 Medical Systems Division established
1979 Toshiba International Corporation Medical Division was established in the U.S.A.
1981 Nasu Operations established
1983 Toshiba Medical Systems Europe B.V. established
1985 First MRI (MRT-15A) and Digital fluorography system (DFP-02A) developed
1995 Slipring CT scanner (TCT-900S) developed.
1997 CT fluoroscopy developed
1999 Achieved production of the 100,000th ultrasound system
2006 MRI noise-reduction technology developed (Pianissimo mechanism)
2007 Toshiba Medical Research Institute USA established
2009 Toshiba Medical Systems (China) Co. Ltd. was established in Beijing.
2015 Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems Europe Ltd established
2016 Completed acquisition of Olea Medical SA
2018 Toshiba Medical becomes a Canon group company.
2023 Renamed to Canon Medical Systems Corporation
2024 Launched compact ultrasound systems