Developments in CADstream include a streamlined portfolio for more comprehensive treatment planning — incorporating the BI-RAD atlas for lesion classification and a multimodality ready configuration. This is designed to enable users to access, view and reference patients’ mammography and ultrasound studies, while interpreting breast MRI with CADstream.

The UltraWire One-Handed Breast Localization Device from INRAD facilitates the precise marking of breast lesions under ultrasound guidance. The device, with its preloaded wire design, allows for the wire deployment with one hand while the other hand holds the transducer. This allows for continuous imaging and accurate placement of the wire. The needle retracts into the handle after use.

Kodak will showcase its newest version of CARESTREAM PACS and CARESTREAM RIS and its multimodality KODAK CARESTREAM Mammography Workstation. Mammography-specific tools for Kodak’s RIS/PACS solution expedite scheduling and patient communication in addition to other functions required for fully featured review and management of mammography screening and diagnostic exams.

The Infinia Hawkeye 4 combines GE’s Infinia gamma camera with an optimized 4-slice CT to create a SPECT/CT system that produces 5 mm slices with better resolution in reportedly half the scan time of other SPECT/CT systems.
Integrated in the Infinia Hawkeye systems are Xeleris workstations equipped with Ignite technology, designed to enable complete scan-and-review cycle in a single click and has built-in connectivity to a PACS for better workflow.

According to Philips, the GEMINI TF is the first PET system to use atomic particle time-measurements to deliver increased image quality and consistency, helping earlier disease detection in patients. These advantages have been demonstrated in a research setting, but Philips is the first to apply them to a clinical environment.

GE Healthcare has introduced Dynamic VUE, a new software application for performing dynamic studies of the heart to assist cardiologists detect perfusion defects. The application is available on the Discovery Dimension Console on the Discovery STE and Discovery VCT Consoles and the AW Workstation.

In the neurological environment, Siemens has introduced a sophisticated computer-aided brain function database for SPECT and PET, SPECT/CT and other multimodalities with syngo Scenium. The analysis tool allows physicians to assess abnormalities by automatically correlating patient studies with average brains.

Spectrum Dynamic’s D-SPECT cardiac camera is reportedly built around implementation of solid state CZT detector technology.

This design employs 10 independent CZT detectors that move back and forth to collect cardiac images from hundreds to thousands of different angles, said the company. This implementation reportedly offers up to a factor of 10 improvements in sensitivity over a conventional NaI-based system.

Siemens Medical Solutions has added TruePoint technology to its family of Biograph hybrid PET/CT systems. This addition was announced at the 2006 Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) Annual Meeting in June.
TruePoint brings many benefits along with it, including increased axial coverage per bed position to provide whole-body PET/CT protocols and a new level of system integration for PET/CT technology and software applications.

Barco has released a new version of their advanced visualization and analysis software, VOXAR 3D 6.1. The VOXAR suite incorporates clinical applications for CT cardiac analysis. Barco also introduced VOXAR 3D ENTERPRISE, which makes hospital-wide visualization accessible from the reading room and throughout the enterprise.

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