Siemens Healthcare announced the release of syngo.Ultrasound Breast Analysis, a software application for offline review of images, volumes and clips produced with Siemens’ Acuson S2000 Automated Breast Volume Scanner (ABVS) and the Acuson S2000 ultrasound system. The software application offers comprehensive image processing and reporting tools designed to improve breast ultrasound quality and workflow, and can be installed on existing computers in medical practices or hospitals, providing physicians with the flexibility to analyze and process 2-D and 3-D ultrasound images inside or outside the reading room. syngo.Ultrasound Breast Analysis software strengthens Siemens’ innovative power — a key component of the Healthcare Sector’s Agenda 2013 two-year global initiative.

Double Black Imaging and Wide Corp. demonstrated a full line of auto-calibrating LED displays. The new line includes a 4 MP color, 6 MP color, 10 MP monochrome, 3 MP monochrome, 3 MP color and 5 MP monochrome.

Agfa HealthCare demonstrated its new Impax Radiation Exposure Monitoring (REM) solution at the 2012 RSNA meeting in Chicago. Impax REM provides an automated way to collect, organize and analyze a patient’s radiation exposure data. Radiation exposure is of interest to all players in a patient’s treatment, from the patient himself, to the referring physician, to the radiology department, to regulatory bodies and to researchers. Information on radiation exposure levels can support the referring physician in making a better-informed decision, while allowing the radiology department to use best practices and to conform to regulations, for example.

RamSoft announced its partnership with Digisonics to offer integrated, vendor-neutral cardiac post-processing and structured reporting for all cardiovascular modalities. Digisonics was recently named Best in KLAS for the Cardiology market segment for the fifth consecutive year.

December 28, 2012 — Elekta announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Clarity 4D Monitoring software. Physicians will now be able to monitor the motion of the prostate and surrounding tissues and organs – in real-time and with sub-millimeter accuracy – during the delivery of therapeutic radiation beams.

Agfa HealthCare has launched the IMPAX Data Center (IDC) 3.0. This new version of Agfa HealthCare’s enterprise medical imaging repository, also called a vendor neutral archive (VNA), is PACS- and storage vendor-agnostic.