Toshiba’s advanced radiation dose reduction technology, Adaptive Iterative Dose Reduction 3D (AIDR 3D), is now available ...

Offering customers CT systems to meet varying clinical needs, Toshiba showcases its Aquilion ONE, Aquilion PRIME and Aquilion RXL.

The IMIX team will be at Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2012 in the South Hall, booth 3060. The latest in DR technoloy, including X Wireless, the industry's lightest wireless DR cassette, will be on display.

November 6, 2012 — Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. has expanded its Assurance Program to offer reconditioned Toshiba ultrasound systems. Assurance ultrasound products include AplioTM XG, Aplio MX, Aplio Artida, Viamo and Xario XG. All come with a 12-month warranty.

The Philips Healthcare Ambient Experience integrates architecture, design and enabling technologies, such as dynamic lighting and sound, to allow patients and staff to personalize their environment to create a relaxing atmosphere. Patients are able to select room themes and sounds, empowering them to be involved in their own care. Concurrently, Philips’ designers take special care to address the needs of the clinical staff to make their workplace efficient and pleasant.The Ambient Experience uptake room can help reduce patient anxiety, improve workflow and patient care. The uptake room solution is a stylishly designed ceiling unit that generates specifically created mood settings with practical procedure light and audio settings for an excellent staff working environment. It transforms a standard uptake room into one that changes according to the various workflow steps. In this way, it fully supports the tasks performed by staff and reduces patient anxiety at the same time.The solution includes:Practical procedure light and audio settings for an excellent staff working environmentSpecific task light to facilitate FDG (a radiopharmaceutical used in medical imaging) injectionActive relaxation video content and light settings – with emphasis on the first 25 minutes of the uptake periodFor more information: www.philips.com

The ddRVersa Motion X-ray system provides automation and versatility for any imaging provider. Its customizable multi-detector configurations create a fit for any environment. The lightweight cassette sized wireless ddRPortable detector option provides excellent image quality.

At RSNA 2012, Quantum Medical Imaging will debut its new DRive DR upgrade makes conversion to a DR workflow fast, easy, and cost effective. DRive equips providers to upgrade conventional X-ray generators with a choice of fixed panel, tethered panel or a dual-detector offering. Image capture and preview is less than three seconds.

Agfa HealthCare's Impax Business Intelligence is an advanced platform that enables healthcare managers and care providers to compile, organize and manage clinical, quality, financial and administrative data. A key benefit of Impax Business Intelligence is its ability to give managers and care providers access to data that helps them to identify opportunities such as trends and cost-savings, as well as potential issues like workflow bottlenecks.

Intelerad Medical Systems announced the release of Nuage Disaster Recovery Services, which provides hosted data archiving and disaster recovery solutions for hospitals and ambulatory imaging providers.

SourceHOV announces at RSNA 2012 its innovative X-Ray Preservation Program for legacy X-ray images that require long-term retention and that may be in jeopardy of degradation. Whether for specific pediatric and mammography cases or for a wide range of legal reasons, some medical films must be kept for time periods beyond the standard five to 10 years. These images are frequently on cellulose acetate-based film, commonly used for medical image output during recent years. Cellulose acetate film has been found to break down over time, leaving important medical films in jeopardy of degradation.