Complete coverage of the Radiological Society of North America's 94th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting
November 30-December 5, 2008
November 30-December 5, 2008
Technology Previews
- Advanced Visualization
- CAD
- Cardiac Imaging
- CT
- Digital X-Ray
- Displays
- Furniture
- Healthcare IT
- Molecular Imaging
- MRI
- Oncology Imaging
- PACS Peripherals
- Reading Services
- RIS/PACS
- Speech & Voice Recognition
- Storage
- Ultrasound
- Women's Imaging
PACS Peripherals
PACS Peripherals Power Productivity
Ashva Technologies
Ashva Technologies (Booth 206) is highlighting its new and upgraded version of PhoeniX, a DICOM converter. PhoeniX 2.0 can now interface with the Vidar film digitizer to scan, segment and send film to any PACS. PhoeniX 2.0 already allows users to scan documents, import multimedia files like JPEG/BMP/AVI, and import locally stored DICOM and pushes them to PACS server. Users also can directly write a DICOM CD/DVD with an embedded viewer with the converted DICOM files.
The company also is featuring its Stream, a simple to use modality worklist server that streamlines flow of patient study information avoiding costly data entry errors and saving precious physician time.
The company also is featuring its Stream, a simple to use modality worklist server that streamlines flow of patient study information avoiding costly data entry errors and saving precious physician time.
aycan Medical Systems
aycan Medical Systems (Booth 8710) is introducing the aycan store, a flexible DICOM archiving and distribution system. Built on extensive experience in long-term archiving of medical image data, aycan store offers entry level and scalable archiving systems, which can grow with a facility.
The company also is showcasing aycan xray-print, a DICOM paper print solution for sharing images with referral physicians and patients; and aycan workstation OsiriXPRO, image post-processing software dedicated to DICOM images for navigation and visualization of multidetector 3D-reconstruction studies.
The company also is showcasing aycan xray-print, a DICOM paper print solution for sharing images with referral physicians and patients; and aycan workstation OsiriXPRO, image post-processing software dedicated to DICOM images for navigation and visualization of multidetector 3D-reconstruction studies.
Codonics
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| Codonics’ Integrity Medical Image Importer |
Medical studies are imported from the disc using Integrity’s rule-based search capabilities to quickly reconcile the external patient data with the facility’s local PACS and Modality Worklist. Integrity automatically performs multiple searches to match study demographics, even when patient names are represented in different character sets. Users can verify the match is correct, directly edit the study attributes if needed, and save the merged data to the PACS, local archive or the Virtua Medical Disc Publisher using DICOM store.
Emageon
Emageon (Booth 8537) is featuring its new Outside Study Gateway (OSG) that enables outside facilities to perform direct DICOM transmission of their PACS images to the receiving hospital’s OSG server, providing for patient and exam integrity checks to be automatically performed as well as auto-forwarding into the receiving hospital’s enterprise PACS.
The studies are transmitted securely across a VPN network and automatically segregated, thereby avoiding potential overlaps in patient IDs that could occur by combining data from multiple sites. Authorized physicians can then view these studies immediately using existing PACS workstations and familiar toolsets, the company says.
OSG allows side-by-side comparisons of additional exams performed with the outside exams done at the remote facility. It also has the capacity for new studies to be provided back securely and electronically to the referring facility.
The studies are transmitted securely across a VPN network and automatically segregated, thereby avoiding potential overlaps in patient IDs that could occur by combining data from multiple sites. Authorized physicians can then view these studies immediately using existing PACS workstations and familiar toolsets, the company says.
OSG allows side-by-side comparisons of additional exams performed with the outside exams done at the remote facility. It also has the capacity for new studies to be provided back securely and electronically to the referring facility.
Exogen Healthcare
Exogen Healthcare (Booth 5465) is showcasing its Data Endurance and Data Certainty solutions for rapid, accurate, and cost-effective data migrations. Data Endurance performs a pre-migration analysis to identify data errors in the legacy system prior to moving a single byte of data. This knowledge helps establish resource allocation needs for data correction efforts, improves migration scheduling and prioritization, and drives migration accuracy and speed, according to the company.
Data Certainty performs the actual data migration, ensures data integrity, and employs an intuitive web-based Quality Assurance (QA) tool that helps reduce manual data reconciliation efforts by as much as 50 percent. Data Certainty also incorporates continuous process monitoring with proactive issue notification and access to real-time status updates.
Data Certainty performs the actual data migration, ensures data integrity, and employs an intuitive web-based Quality Assurance (QA) tool that helps reduce manual data reconciliation efforts by as much as 50 percent. Data Certainty also incorporates continuous process monitoring with proactive issue notification and access to real-time status updates.
Foresight Imaging
Foresight Imaging (Booth 7636) is displaying version 2.2 of its TIMS DICOM System along with demonstrations of the TIMS Consultant. TIMS converts any non-DICOM medical modality to DICOM. The resulting digital study can be sent to PACS, recorded to CD/DVD/USB, and printed to film or paper.
Version 2.2 includes several new features including audio recording and annotation (especially for speech pathology), audio playback, audio recording to CD/DVD, file attachment, editing of saved studies, TIF and JPEG 2000 file import (in addition to the current BMP, AVI, JPG, and PNG formats), DICOM send lists, study editing improvements, and other general workflow enhancements.
Version 2.2 includes several new features including audio recording and annotation (especially for speech pathology), audio playback, audio recording to CD/DVD, file attachment, editing of saved studies, TIF and JPEG 2000 file import (in addition to the current BMP, AVI, JPG, and PNG formats), DICOM send lists, study editing improvements, and other general workflow enhancements.
Integrated Modular Systems, Inc.
Integrated Modular Systems, Inc. (IMSI) (Booth 3311) is launching a new Version 5.1.3d of imsiPACS, with directly integrated modules for nuclear medicine and 3D visualization. imsiPACS provides a DICOM 3.0, and HIPAA compliant server for image storage, query and retrieval, forwarding, printing and DICOM-formatted media interchange through import and export functions. The archive server resides on any local server or network attached storage devices. Other features include shared archive, patient reconciliation, DICOM Print, failover option and web-based administration.
Konica Minolta
Konica Minolta (Booth 3409) is introducing a new laser imager for mammography, its DryPro 873 Laser, which provides a 4.0 DMax at 43.75um to support consistent mammography imaging. The new imager delivers a first print in 50 seconds and throughput of 150 14-inch x 17-inch sheets per hour, the company says.
Merge Healthcare
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| Merge’s new eFilm Community and eFilm Live Training sessions |
Cedara OpenEyes image processing, visualization and manipulation platform can help developers create clinical applications (.NET or JAVA, data model based paradigm, XML), enabling acceleration of application development via plug-and-play imaging development tools, that include technology for 2D, 3D and 4D visualization.
Laitek
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| Migratek v. 2 Advanced Migration Services from Laitek |
The Migratek v. 2 tool kit provides a virtual DICOM archive during the data migration process that unifies ongoing access to data, wherever located, through a single DICOM Query/Retrieve interface, the company says.
As part of its data migration services, Laitek also offers 24/7 migration data flow management, user-controlled emergency migration pause features, web-based migration reporting and user-based administrative access control.
mPlexus
mPlexus (Booth 9551) is debuting version 2.0 of its DICOM router product, DICOM eXtender.
The mPlexus DICOM eXtender has been designed to provide the efficient, reliable and secure transfer of medical images in any size organization. DICOM eXtender 2.0 has several new features that include: DICOM header manipulation; DICOM study import, edit and route; route priority; transmission throttling; basic prefetching; a diagnostic quality viewer; disk space management; and archive functionality.
The mPlexus DICOM eXtender has been designed to provide the efficient, reliable and secure transfer of medical images in any size organization. DICOM eXtender 2.0 has several new features that include: DICOM header manipulation; DICOM study import, edit and route; route priority; transmission throttling; basic prefetching; a diagnostic quality viewer; disk space management; and archive functionality.
NAI Tech Products
NAI Tech Products (Booth 3819) is introducing its MDR Video RP and MDR Express RP, compact, stand-alone medical image recorders with integrated disk label printing.
MDR Video RP records high-resolution streaming video to CD or DVD media in a
DICOM format with automatic full color label printing including patient demographic data. The self-contained publishing solution can be installed easily in fluoroscopy rooms or on ultrasound, mobile C-arm or endoscopic carts.
MDR Express RP provides the same disk burning and labeling capability without the video capture, for modalities such as CR, DR, digital mammography, CT and MRI which have DICOM output.
Another feature of the RP is the electronic scribing process (ESP), which reads the patient demographics from unlabeled disks and automatically labels them with the correct patient information. If ink-jet printable disks were not used, RP will transfer the data to its internal hard drive and burn a new disc with a printed label on suitable media.
MDR Video RP records high-resolution streaming video to CD or DVD media in a
DICOM format with automatic full color label printing including patient demographic data. The self-contained publishing solution can be installed easily in fluoroscopy rooms or on ultrasound, mobile C-arm or endoscopic carts.
MDR Express RP provides the same disk burning and labeling capability without the video capture, for modalities such as CR, DR, digital mammography, CT and MRI which have DICOM output.
Another feature of the RP is the electronic scribing process (ESP), which reads the patient demographics from unlabeled disks and automatically labels them with the correct patient information. If ink-jet printable disks were not used, RP will transfer the data to its internal hard drive and burn a new disc with a printed label on suitable media.
PACSGear
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| PACSGear’s MediaWriter now supports reports from DICOM SR and HL7 feeds |
MediaWriter, a DICOM CD/DVD burning system, now integrates reports from DICOM Structured Report and HL7 feeds. Featuring the Epson Discproducer, MediaWriter D200 includes an embedded DICOM viewer to create complete and portable medical records.
PACSscan, a document scanning and importing software, now includes functionality to send electronic information—such as Word/PDF, EHR/EMR, cardiology and RIS information—directly to PACS/EHR. All PACSgear Print2PACS functionality has been incorporated into PACSscan. These features build on the product’s current capabilities to scan documents, create electronic forms and import JPEG/AVI/MPEG and DICOM CDs/DVDs, the company says.
peerVue
peerVue (Booth 5502) is demonstrating capabilities of its qiVue application, a PACS-Integrated, web-based solution for healthcare organizations struggling to meet ever-increasing accreditation and regulatory requirements. The qiVue product delivers highly customizable communications, continuous quality improvement and reporting capabilities.
Integrated directly into any vendor’s PACS, qiVue equips healthcare organizations with capabilities that may be tailored to resolve multiple workflow and regulatory challenges including: ACR-required peer review; JCAHO Critical Test Results management; emergency department communications and discrepancies; nighthawk discrepancy management; consultation and follow-up management; and technologist performance improvement.
The qiVue product delivers highly customizable communications, continuous quality improvement and reporting capabilities that can be integrated with PACS, RIS, or EMR, according to the company.
Integrated directly into any vendor’s PACS, qiVue equips healthcare organizations with capabilities that may be tailored to resolve multiple workflow and regulatory challenges including: ACR-required peer review; JCAHO Critical Test Results management; emergency department communications and discrepancies; nighthawk discrepancy management; consultation and follow-up management; and technologist performance improvement.
The qiVue product delivers highly customizable communications, continuous quality improvement and reporting capabilities that can be integrated with PACS, RIS, or EMR, according to the company.
Pegasus Imaging
Pegasus Imaging (Booth 3306) is demonstrating and comparing the performance of several image compression technologies provided within its PICTools Software Development Kit (SDK) at RSNA 2008.
Pegasus Imaging’s recently enhanced demo application utilizes the PICTools underlying libraries for maximum performance of standards-based image compression technologies. The PICTools Demo allows the input of bitmap images and RAW images for compression and decompression using the following technologies: JPEG 2000 (including multithreading), JPEG-LS, Lossy JPEG, Lossless JPEG, HD Photo (JPEG XR) and more. It gives image data such as file sizes before and after, compression ratios, compression and expansion speeds and image properties.
The user has control over features such as compression type, compression ratio, bit depths, PSNR and many others. The JPIP feature within JPEG 2000 also is being demonstrated to all interested parties at the show.
PICTools image compression technologies are currently available for 32-bit Windows, Linux, Sun Microsystems Solaris, and IBM AIX as well as for 64-bit platforms including Windows, Linux, and Solaris. They also are available as high-performance, low-level C libraries in the PICTools SDK.
Pegasus Imaging’s recently enhanced demo application utilizes the PICTools underlying libraries for maximum performance of standards-based image compression technologies. The PICTools Demo allows the input of bitmap images and RAW images for compression and decompression using the following technologies: JPEG 2000 (including multithreading), JPEG-LS, Lossy JPEG, Lossless JPEG, HD Photo (JPEG XR) and more. It gives image data such as file sizes before and after, compression ratios, compression and expansion speeds and image properties.
The user has control over features such as compression type, compression ratio, bit depths, PSNR and many others. The JPIP feature within JPEG 2000 also is being demonstrated to all interested parties at the show.
PICTools image compression technologies are currently available for 32-bit Windows, Linux, Sun Microsystems Solaris, and IBM AIX as well as for 64-bit platforms including Windows, Linux, and Solaris. They also are available as high-performance, low-level C libraries in the PICTools SDK.
Softek Solutions
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| Softek’s Illuminate allows you search of free-text data in all the studies in Philips iSite PACS |
Using a proprietary free-text-based search algorithm, Softek Illuminate provides access to the unstructured data within iSite to help radiologists, educators and administrators improve productivity, clinical decision-making and, ultimately, patient care.
Illuminate is available to users of iSite 3.3, 3.5 and 3.6 and can backload and index half a million studies in less than a day. Once initial indexing is complete, new studies are added automatically. Illuminate indexes only the text portion of a study, but once a file is selected, both the text and images from iSite appear.
In addition to Illuminate, Softek manufactures Panther, a management system that monitors Cerner’s Millennium technology.
Sony Medical
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| Sony FilmStation Imager |
The imager yields high-resolution, detailed images in 606 dpi at an ultra-fast print time of 90 sheets per hour. In addition, the versatile UP-DF750 can stand upright conveniently alongside a PC under a desktop. The new FilmStation imager has convenient front-mounted controls, a built-in DICOM 3.0 interface and accepts film in multiple sizes. Automatic calibration provides consistent image quality.
Sorna Corporation
Sorna Corporation (Booth 7632) is exhibiting Reviewer CD, a complimentary DICOM viewer to any medical professional. Reviewer CD provides a viewing experience of externally created CDs and DVDs, and runs on both Vista and Windows operating systems. The latest release of Reviewer is designed to acquire, view, store and merge both internally generated and imported DICOM images for new CD/DVD production.
Additionally, the company is showcasing its MyBabyCD, software specifically designed to create non-DICOM CDs for patients receiving prenatal ultrasound examinations, and software designed for patients receiving CDs of their mammograms.
Additionally, the company is showcasing its MyBabyCD, software specifically designed to create non-DICOM CDs for patients receiving prenatal ultrasound examinations, and software designed for patients receiving CDs of their mammograms.
Vidar Systems
Vidar Systems (Booth 8913) is featuring the release of Clinical-Express 4.1, the CE-MDD edition of its DICOM film acquisition software that is available in English, German, Spanish and Italian.
ClinicalExpress 4.1 was developed specifically for use with VIDAR’s line of film digitizers such as the CAD PRO Advantage, DiagnosticPRO Advantage and SIERRA plus.
The new version is available in modules to build a cost-effective solution for specific needs. Choose from the base package for general radiography or the base package for mammography or combine the two. Add-on modules for Modality Worklist and/or PDI are available to complete solutions.
ClinicalExpress 4.1 was developed specifically for use with VIDAR’s line of film digitizers such as the CAD PRO Advantage, DiagnosticPRO Advantage and SIERRA plus.
The new version is available in modules to build a cost-effective solution for specific needs. Choose from the base package for general radiography or the base package for mammography or combine the two. Add-on modules for Modality Worklist and/or PDI are available to complete solutions.