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.

Toshiba America Medical Systems received FDA clearance for the new open-bore 1.5T Vantage Titan MR system, which will be commercially available in the first quarter of 2008.
The open bore of the Vantage Titan is 18 percent larger than other 1.5T systems on the market, featuring a large 71-centimeter patient aperture.

ScImage gained FDA clearance for primary diagnostic review of mammographic images using its enterprise-wide, Web-based PACS, PicomEnterprise Version 3.0, which includes default hanging protocols for standard screening exams, automated hanging protocols for prior comparison and linked window/level and pan/zoom functions.

Siemens Medical Solutions received FDA 510(k) marketing clearance for the sale and distribution of its ARTISTE solution, a linear accelerator engineered specifically for Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART), designed to provide a comprehensive portfolio of image-guided and advanced treatment delivery protocols.

The FDA 510(k) cleared the new Fuji DR (FDR) system, Unity SpeedSuite, a single detector designed to initiate image display in two seconds, showing a fully processed image in seven to nine seconds.

Fully motorized, Unity SpeedSuite performs a variety of general radiographic exams, including both table-based and upright procedures. The system can reportedly be positioned and controlled to do almost any exam from chest to extremities, and is designed for any clinical area - general radiography, emergency departments and dedicated chest rooms or outpatient care facilities.

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