# Shimadzu

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## TL;DR

Shimadzu is a Kyoto instrument maker whose medical division sells X-ray, fluoroscopy and angiography systems and whose analytical division built the mass spectrometers that won a Nobel Prize.

## Summary

Founded in 1875, Shimadzu produced Japan's first medical X-ray images and today sells fixed and mobile digital radiography, fluoroscopy tables and angiography systems used in interventional oncology suites, alongside laboratory mass spectrometers and chromatographs; Koichi Tanaka of Shimadzu shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for soft laser desorption ionisation. OnCo links it to X-ray radiography and fluoroscopy.

## Fields

- Kind: Company
- Last checked: 2026-09-17
- Tags: machines-wave
- HQ: Kyoto
- Type: imaging
- Website: https://www.shimadzu.com
- Ticker: 7701.T

## Sources

- Official website: https://www.shimadzu.com

## Connected records

- fronts: [Imaging](https://onco.cc/fronts/imaging/)
- technologies: [X-ray radiography and fluoroscopy](https://onco.cc/technologies/x-ray-radiography-fluoroscopy/)

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