Siemens introduced its new Acuson Antares ultrasound system and upgrades to its Acuson Sequoia ultrasound platform, both designed to deliver improved breast imaging.

As part of an ongoing partnership to deliver turnkey PACS solutions to the medical community, Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. and McKesson Corp. introduced Horizon Medical Imaging Store 100, a cost-effective mini-PACS solution, at the Radiological Society of North America’s annual meeting in Chicago this week.

Fujifilm Medical Systems USA introduced its Synapse version 3.2, the newest release of Fuji’s PACS, which includes additional digital mammography capabilities. Synapse 3.2 is being introduced on the heels of the FDA approval of Fuji’s FCRm FFDM system, and is designed to further assist facilities with workflow, visualization and image processing.

Siemens Medical Solutions rolled out the newest systems from its total imaging matrix technology, known as Tim, at the Radiological Society of North America’s meeting this week in Chicago.

Kubtec's Xpert Mobile specimen radiography system is for imaging breast biopsy cores and surgically excised tissue specimens. Xpert Mobile comes fully equipped with a DICOM compliant workstation for travel between OR suites.

In an effort to make digital imaging available to a wider variety of facilities, Siemens Medical Solutions launched the first mobile X-ray unit with an integrated computed radiography reader. The MobileTT XP CR provides display for first-image review and image archiving right at the patient’s bedside.

Internet-based medical coding technology firm CodeRyte Inc. demonstrated its new vascular interventional radiology coding application. CodeRyte's new platform uses language-based statistical Web technologies and natural language processing to automatically code free-form physician dictations.