The FDA cleared St. Jude Medical Inc.’s EnSite Fusion Registration Module, a software designed to help physicians create detailed heart models to facilitate the diagnosis and delivery of therapy for complex abnormal atrial heart rhythms, including Atrial Fibrillation (AF).

The software integrates an EnSite System-created chamber model with a 3D computed tomography (CT) model so that the physician has an improved view of the heart’s anatomy.

The new 2008 CardioValue software program on the Terason Echo ultrasound system is a custom chip set and Windows-based software, making performance comparable to that of a high-end system. It provides 2D image quality and sensitivity of color Doppler and spectral Doppler quality.

RIS/PACS solutions provider RADinfo Systems recently released PowerPACS DICOMmail software, which allows physicians to send DICOM image studies and reports through common eMail systems.

The new Digital Starter Kit 9397 combines digital dictation technology with transcription software and accessories, such as the Philips Digital Pocket Memo 9370, Philips SpeechExec software and the recently released USB Foot Control 2330.

The Philips Digital Pocket Memo 9370 is a hand-held recorder featuring push buttons for single-handed use, “smart buttons” and a large backlit LCD for viewing information such as author name, file name and length of dictation.

Viztek introduced its Opal-RAD Web-based PACS with an OnCall auto-routing feature that delivers designated exams to a Web-enabled PC to enable flexible reading, allows users to define where and when particular types of studies will be automatically pushed over the Internet, without any preplanned setup or IT coordination.

The FDA gave Siemens Medical Solutions 510(k) market clearance of four new software applications used with the SOMATOM Definition, aimed at simplifying the diagnosis of diseases of the heart, brain, lungs and extremity joints.

Toshiba’s new Aplio Artida 4D ultrasound system is designed for physicians to quantify global and regional LV function, including LV ejection fraction. The system is also one of the first to track myocardial motion and display myocardial motion in 3D, allowing the user to obtain angle-independent, quantitative and regional information about myocardial contraction. With this imaging system, physicians have the ability to identify wall motion defects and improve cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) using pacemakers.

A new digital system for fluorescent multispectral optical molecular imaging, the Kodak In-Vivo Multispectral Imaging System FX, enables life science researchers to study molecular abnormalities that are the origin of disease at a very early stage.

The FDA gave market approval to the Medical Office Suite of Products, which aims to address the issue of coordination between clinical modality applications, PACS systems, information systems and reporting packages.

NEC Electronics America Inc. introduced two new color, 21.3-inch diagonal amorphous-silicon thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid-crystal display (LCD) modules for medical imaging applications.

The new display modules represent the first application of NEC LCD Technologies’ advanced, super-fine TFT (UA-SFT) display technology in a 21.3-inch LCD. Combined with NEC LCD Technologies’ newly designed high-intensity direct-backlight system, the modules achieve very high luminance levels, high contrast ratios, high brightness uniformity and ultrawide viewing angles.

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