Intelerad’s InteleOne distributed radiology solution enables a regional healthcare provider to reduce costs while maintaining and improving its focus on accessibility, convenience and high levels of quality and service.
November 3, 2011 – Lantheus Medical Imaging announced important changes to the U.S. product label for Definity Vial for (perflutren lipid microsphere) Injectable Suspension. The contrast agent is indicated for use in patients with suboptimal echocardiograms to opacify the left ventricular chamber and to improve the delineation of the left ventricular endocardial border.
Cerner and Vital Images bring care providers advanced visualization across the health care continuum. The system provides workflow-driven multimodality 2-D, 3-D and 4-D viewing tools to enhance decision support in context with patient information via the electronic health records (EHR) for real time analysis and decision support.
While most women understand the importance of health screenings, an estimated 72 million have missed or postponed a ...
The Cypher PS print server and Canon imagePress C1+ digital printing solution is a cost-effective answer that enables radiology departments to print high-quality digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) images on various types and sizes of paper. This digital printing solution helps to cut the cost of expensive film usage by providing a low-cost, high-quality alternative.
MediCal QAWeb is the industry’s only completely online, automated quality assurance (QA) and auto-calibration service that guarantees maximum diagnostic confidence and uptime of all picture archive and communications system (PACS) display systems throughout the healthcare facility. This all-inclusive, intervention-free service ensures 24/7 digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) compliance for every medical imaging display on the network and maintains consistent luminance to enhance diagnostic confidence. Offering centralized control of all displays across the enterprise, Barco’s MediCal QAWeb provides fast issue identification and automated corrective actions to ensure maximum availability. Asset management capabilities enhance budget control with comprehensive display analysis and reporting. For more information: www.barco.com
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Barco's Mammo Tomosynthesis 5 MP significantly improves accuracy of breast cancer detection with numerous capabilities that enhance the conspicuity of the subtlest details. RapidFrame technology counteracts motion blur when scrolling through a stack of images due to a high pixel refresh rate. images and eliminates quantization artifacts, reducing the overall noise in the images.
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
Invivo’s DynaCAD for Prostate and DynaTRIM are an award-winning combination (Medical Design Excellence Gold Award, 2010). The software and hardware combination streamlines workflow and improves productivity and increases diagnostic confidence for both imaging and magnetic resonance (MR)-guided intervention.
Gamma Medica Inc. will demonstrate the LumaGEM Low Dose Molecular Breast Imaging (MBI) System at RSNA 2012.
November 2, 2011 — Mevion Medical Systems announced it has delivered the world's first superconducting synchrocyclotron to the S. Lee Kling Center for Proton Therapy at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo.
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November 2, 2011 — InfiMed announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) approval for its i5DR digital imaging software. The new program integrates with the Samsung SDX-4336CP portable flat panel detector.
My least favorite celebration of the year ended October 31 without (real) bloodshed and with all of my body parts, and those of everyone I know, intact. Radiologists seeking to join in could do so with specialty merchandise.
November 1, 2011 — iCAD Inc. announced it has entered a distribution agreement with Hitachi Medical Systems. With this agreement, iCAD’s SpectraLook with PrecisionPoint image analysis solution for breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) will be available for purchase with Hitachi’s Oasis and Echelon MRI systems. SpectraLook will help radiologists distinguish potential cancers in the breast as part of their overall analysis of MRI studies and streamline the planning and performance of MRI-guided percutaneous breast biopsies.
SPONSORED CONTENT — EnsightTM 2.0 is the newest version of Enlitic’s data standardization software framework. Ensight is ...
November 1, 2011 — Royal Philips Electronics introduced MicroDose Mammography, a full-field digital mammography (FFDM) solution, on Monday. The system offers a lower radiation dose, as compared with other FFDM systems, without compromising image quality.
MIMcloud is a secure, Internet-based medical image service that provides an easily accessible resource for storing, sharing, and viewing data off-site. Users can share images with referring physicians, partner institutions and patients.
SPONSORED CONTENT — EnsightTM 2.0 is the newest version of Enlitic’s data standardization software framework. Ensight is ...
MIM Software’s Mobile MIM is the first diagnostic imaging app available for the iPhone and iPad and provides imaging professionals a portable solution away from their workstations. Local and cloud-based solutions are available for MIM’s industry leading tools for multi-modality image review, fusion and contouring. The software allows clinicians to connect and share anytime and anywhere.
Philips TruFlight Select is its first economical positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) system equipped premium time-of-flight (TOF) technology, Astonish TF. Competitive systems with similar performance can cost up to $500,000 more than the TruFlight Select PET/CT.
said, Thomas G. Frazier, M.D., Medical Director of the Comprehensive Breast Center at the Bryn Mawr Hospital. A nationally recognized surgical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, he performed the first immediate breast reconstruction surgery in the Philadelphia area. He uses KUBTEC’s XPERT 40 at Bryn Mawr Hospital, “at least four or five times a week, maybe more, in the operating room alone!” In addition to eliminating delays of interoperative transfers to radiology, images are available in seconds with the XPERT 40. Rapid image acquisition, user-friendly enhancement software and a touch-screen monitor give Dr. Frazier the ability to orient and evaluate an image in the operating room (OR) without breaking scrub.Dr. Frazier, also a Clinical Professor of Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and the Program Director of the Breast Fellowship Program at Bryn Mawr Hospital, was introduced to KUBTEC’s XPERT 40 at the American Society of Breast Surgeons annual meeting in 2009, in San Diego, CA. He had seen the value of a portable specimen radiography system for intraoperative breast surgery and reviewed the capabilities of the other specimen radiography systems. Dr. Frazier was impressed with the innovative technology the KUBTEC XPERT 40 offered. “The quality of the images was excellent, with the ease of use and the clear value the XPERT 40 offered made the decision an easy one for us.”
TeraRecon will be showcasing iNtuition Cloud, the company’s flagship iNtuition solution in the form of a Web-based service at RSNA 2011.
October 31, 2011 –Lantheus Medical announced it has been awarded a three-year supplier contract with Premier Purchasing Partners, the group purchasing unit of the Premier healthcare alliance, for its radiopharmaceutical imaging agents.
October 31, 2011 – GE Healthcare's announced in Milan, Italy, that the Lombardia Ministry of Health (MoH) purchased 135 units of GE Healthcare's pocket-sized, ultrasound medical imaging device Vscan for use by general practitioners in the region. This effort by GE Healthcare and the Lombardia MoH is not only the first of its kind for Italy, but also unique to Europe.