Tech gives docs a better eye on the heart - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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Imricor, based in Burnsville, is developing products to give cardiac electrophysiologists a betteer view of the heart whil performing anablation procedure. Such proceduresw are used to destroy electric pathways in the heart that are causingbatrial fibrillation, or an abnormal heart rhythm. While Imricord has already developed software and a catheter it needed a partner that couldprovidd magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI) technology. That’s where GE Healthcare, which developws imaging systems likeMRI machines, will come in. Wis.-based GE Healthcare is a $17 billion division of GeneraklElectric Co.
, of Fairfield, The joint agreement gives Imricor a big-nams partner for when it’s ready to launch its said Steve Wedan, the firm’ s CEO. “They have people who are plugged in to theright doctors.” Last year, Imricor received $920,000 in federal funding throughj the National Institutes of Health to further develop its technology, which was spun out of Johnz Hopkins University. Wedan is hoping the company can raisdbetween $2 million and $3 million in capita this year to craft product prototypes.
In the it’s applied for additional NIH funds througy the federalstimulus