Intelerad Medical Systems introduces new tomosynthesis support for InteleViewer, enabling expanded breast imaging interpretation for the IntelePACS or InteleOne reading and reporting platforms. Using InteleViewer’s flexible hanging protocol layouts, radiologists can quickly step through cases for mammography screening or diagnosis, using tomosynthesis 3-D images to advance women’s health.

For more information: www.intelerad.com/tomo

Vue Archive supports diverse data formats to help healthcare providers consolidate multiple “ologies” in a system-neutral repository. Vue Motion — a vendor-neutral, zero-footprint viewer cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for iPad review — delivers enterprise access to images and reports. Vue Connect intelligently indexes disparate radiology information systems (RIS)/PACS for seamless information exchange as an on-site system or a cloud service. These systems will be featured at SIIM.

iConnect delivers an integrated suite of software solutions to share diagnostic content and results. The suite includes a zero-download DICOM image and XDS server, an Internet-based gateway for image sharing between enterprises, and a vendor-neutral archive to create an enterprise imaging strategy. Merge PACS is a real-time picture archiving and communication system that lets radiologists read, review, archive and share images and data from a Web-based system. Using Merge PACS, radiologists can access images anywhere, anytime using their own preferences.

The Whitestone workstation features include ambient lighting, power and cable management that facilitates performance, comfort and ease of use. Complete electronic adjustment capabilities include surface height in sit-stand positions, surface tilt, and vertical and horizontal adjustment of monitors. An environmental heating and cooling system controlled at the workstation allows for direct regulation of temperature and alleviates heat generated by computer equipment. Acoustical properties of the partition reduce extraneous sounds.

Southern Ohio Medical Center (SOMC) is a 222-bed, rural, nonprofit hospital in Portsmouth, Ohio, that serves approximately 120,000 patients in the Appalachian area. The computed tomography (CT) department is a 24/7 operation. It has two Philips iCT scanners — one in the emergency department (ED) and the other in its medical imaging department — and it utilizes the iDose4 iterative reconstruction technique on iCT scans. Modifying imaging protocols for high image quality while achieving doses as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA) has become an endeavor of the imaging department at SOMC.

“Tomosynthesis really allows us to look through the breast, slice by slice, in a way that we haven’t been able to before,” explains Beth Whiteside, M.D., breast imaging specialist at Albany Medical Center and radiologist with Community Care Physicians. “It takes away that vexing issue of tissue overlap and allows us to look underneath. I think it is every radiologist’s dream.”

A comparision of a small breast cancer found in a patient without dense breast tissue (left), and a tumor found in a woman with dense fibroglandular tissue. Fibroglandular Dense Breast tissue Comparison
SecondLook Premier software from iCAD marks potential mass (oval) and calcifications (rectangle) on left breast with dense tissue.Breast Density Assessment and Fibroglandular Densities
Hologic offers Quantra volumetric breast density assessment software, which uses details of the X-ray imaging chain to quantify fibroglandular tissue in the breast. It aggregates volumetric measurements from each view in a study into a concise assessment for each breast. Hologic, Quantra, volumetric breast density assessment
This is an example of the output from Volpara, one of the volumetric breast density assessment tools on the market. Volumetric Breast & Fibrograndular Density Assessment

There has been much talk in the news lately about mammographic breast density, its association with the risk of breast cancer and legislative efforts to mandate reporting it to patients. This article addresses the reasons why breast density has become such a hot-button issue and what we might expect from this topic going forward.

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