Varian will be showing new and upgraded PaxScan products at RSNA 2006.
The new PaxScan 2520V replaces the 2520 for the cardiac and conventional C-arm market. With the new panel, there is no need for the command processor, an extra piece of hardware that was needed with the 2520. It is replaced with virtual software on the upgraded version. The new 2520V delivers 14-bit grayscale contrast resolution by integration of new ASIC chip technology.

With the market transitioning from analog to digital, wet long film processors are becoming obsolete. The Codonics Horizon XL Multimedia Imager is a dry film imager that supports 36- and 51-inch long film output for digital applications. The XL can print long bone studies, scoliosis and pediatric and adult spines on long film for surgical planning.

Cedara Software will showcase a variety of technologies at RSNA 2006, including C4 (Cedara Clinical Control Center), Cedara aXigate and Cedara I-ReadMammo.
C4 is included among the company’s suite of OEM/VAR solutions and allows clinical applications and plug-ins to be integrated into a single workstation.

The Gammex 490 PET CT multi-modality phantom allows users to perform QC tests on both modalities with the same phantom. CT QC tests can be performed to check for alignment, positioning, CT number accuracy, slice thickness, high and low contrast and CT number uniformity. Inserts containing different size spheres allow for “hot” spot activity testing, and different inserts also allow for attenuation testing. The phantom is portable and made of solid water and acrylic.

Merge eMed has upgraded its RIS/PACS solution. With Fusion RIS/PACS MX, a radiologist can readily view all the information needed to read a case within a single application. The FUSION RIS/PACS MX also has workflow tools such as embedded dictation, interrupt sessions, instant messaging and hanging protocols all available with minimal clicks.

The Precess MRI Patient Monitoring System features wireless ECG and SPO2. The wireless ECG and SPO2 technologies allow for shorter cable lengths, which can increase patient safety and throughput.

Medical Imaging Resources is going places — to growing hospitals in need of faster MRI exam turnaround, to busy medical centers that benefit from back-up CT scanners, to facilities awaiting new equipment shipments and to the forefront of today’s rapidly accelerating mobile imaging scene.
“We started with a single mobile unit 15 years ago,” said John Vartanian, president of the Ann Arbor, MI-based mobile service.

Increasingly, U.S. community cancer centers are among the diverse clinical environments pioneering the use of Elekta Synergy systems, the leading commercial system for treating cancer patients using Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) and Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT).

In March of 2006, clinicians at the MIMA Cancer Center in Melbourne, FL, began treating lung cancer with stereotactic body radiosurgery, delivered using the Trilogy medical linear accelerator from Varian Medical Systems, configured with the On-Board Imager device for image-guided radiotherapy and the RPM respiratory gating system for managing tumor motion.

Increasing System Speed
Exempla Healthcare has a legacy in Denver, CO having provided 130 years of comprehensive medical services. In pursuing their goal of becoming "Best in the Nation", they strive to continually improve every aspect affecting patient care. One area their IT department has focused on is increasing the radiology image transfer speeds throughout their PACS enterprise, so critical information reaches the radiologist and other healthcare providers faster.

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