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	Mar. 01, 2021 USD ($)	Feb. 22, 2021 USD ($)	Jan. 04, 2021 USD ($)	Sep. 28, 2020 USD ($)	Aug. 23, 2020 USD ($)	Feb. 03, 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 30, 2019 USD ($)	Nov. 21, 2019 USD ($) shares	Aug. 01, 2019 USD ($)	Nov. 30, 2019 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2019 $ / shares	Mar. 27, 2021 USD ($)	Mar. 27, 2021 USD ($) shares	Mar. 28, 2020	Sep. 26, 2020 USD ($)	Nov. 20, 2019
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Consideration transferred								$ 69.3
Intangible assets, net												$ 1,447.6	$ 1,447.6		$ 1,307.5
Goodwill												2,857.2	2,857.2		$ 2,657.9
Ownership percentage								78.00%
Equity interest in acquiree, remeasurement gain								$ 3.2
Consideration related to equity method investment								17.9
Consideration related to newly acquired shares										$ 12.6
Consideration, portion related to loan repayment								30.2
Consideration related to fair value of noncontrolling interest								8.6
Discount rate percentage														0.120
Developed Technology
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Intangible assets useful life					10 years
Trade Names
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Intangible assets useful life					10 years
Biotheranostics
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Consideration transferred		$ 232.5
Intangible assets, fair value (percentage)		18.00%
Intangible assets useful life		10 years
Developed technology		$ 160.3
Trade names		2.1
Goodwill		$ 85.8
Diagenode
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Consideration transferred	$ 153.4
Intangible assets useful life	10 years
Developed technology	$ 69.8
Customer relationships	9.2
Goodwill	$ 78.1
Diagenode \| Customer Relationships
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Intangible assets, fair value (percentage)	13.50%
Diagenode \| Developed Technology
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Intangible assets, fair value (percentage)	14.50%
Somatex Medical Technologies
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Consideration transferred			$ 62.8
Developed technology			38.0
Customer relationships			1.2
Trade names			0.9
Net acquired tangible assets and liabilities			9.3
Goodwill			$ 32.0
NXC Imaging
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Consideration transferred				$ 5.6
NXC Imaging \| Customer Relationships
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Intangible assets useful life				5 years
Acessa Health
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Consideration transferred					$ 161.3
Intangible assets, fair value (percentage)					18.00%
Developed technology					$ 127.0
Trade names					1.2
Purchase price withheld					$ 81.8
Annual incremental revenue growth period					3 years
Change in contingent consideration												$ (14.7)	$ (10.1)
Goodwill					$ 48.4
Acessa Health \| Contingent Holdback
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Purchase price withheld					$ 3.0
Health Beacons
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Consideration transferred						$ 19.7
Holdback						2.3
Intangible assets, net						10.7
Goodwill						6.2
Remainder of purchase price						$ 2.8
Alpha Imaging
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Consideration transferred							$ 18.0
Purchase price withheld							0.9
Holdback							$ 1.0
Alpha Imaging \| Customer Relationships
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Intangible assets useful life							5 years
SuperSonic Imagine
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Consideration transferred								12.6	$ 18.2
Developed technology								38.3
Customer relationships								4.0
Trade names								3.0
Goodwill								$ 34.3
Percentage of outstanding shares acquired									46.00%							50.00%
Cash tender offer price (per share) \| $ / shares											$ 1.50
Shares acquired \| shares								7.6
Equity interest in acquiree, percentage									46.00%			80.00%	80.00%
Additional outstanding shares purchased (in shares) \| shares													1.1
Additional outstanding shares purchased, amount													$ 1.8
SuperSonic Imagine \| Customer Relationships
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Intangible assets useful life								9 years
SuperSonic Imagine \| Developed Technology
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Intangible assets useful life								9 years
SuperSonic Imagine \| Trade Names
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Intangible assets useful life								8 years 7 months 6 days