Beekley SPOTS floral skin markers for mammography feature pretty, patient-friendly designs that add some soft touches to balance the clinical aspects of the exam.
The medical-grade DVD recorder, DVO-1000MD, incorporates two features called DVORECOVERY and DVOFAST designed to improve patient workflow and ease of use. The DVORECOVERY feature is a built-in 80-GB hard drive, storing up to 30 hours of video that protects recorded video from power outages. DVOFAST allows DVD recording and removal in less than 90 seconds when the eject button is pressed.
The 3MP monochrome LCD monitor for PACS, chest radiology, CT, MRI and angiography has been rolled out. RadiForce G33, a 13-bit lookup table that produces a palette of 8,161 grayscale tones from which 4,096 can be displayed simultaneously.
WIDE Corp.’s 5MP LCD system, IF2105M, is for use in digital mammography applications. A high-speed graphic controller drives the 21.3-inch diagonal 5MP LCD. It features two electronic front sensors that calibrate high- and low-grayscale brightness.
The InDex archiving service will be enhanced with a new Tier 4 data center with RAID2 spinning disk storage, which offers increased capacity and higher performance. It also allows a complete server to be impaired without any impact on service delivery.
The new P10-4 transducer is designed for imaging neonatal, infant and pediatric patients. The new P4-1 small footprint transducer addresses the need for greater access in abdominal and ob/gyn sonography, as it features nine frequencies, eliminating the need to change transducers.
The new Echelon 1.5T MRI has higher-order active shim, RAPID parallel imaging, a scalable 8-channel RF system, multiple coil ports, an advanced reconstruction engine and more. Its computer system, VERTEX, is the integration of a multiprocessor CPU and an advanced scan/reconstruction engine.
Virtua is an integrated disc recorder, and is a complete disc publishing solution for recording and labeling CD and DVD media with radiographic studies. It integrates dual CD/DVD drives, a high-speed printer, a touchscreen interface and an embedded computer into a standalone DICOM peripheral that handles all medical CD and DVD recording needs.
Merge Healthcare has released Fusion Matrix PACS, version 2.1. This newest release introduces several key enhancements to help radiologists efficiently read studies, including the ability to query and retrieve studies from third-party DICOM sources, reserve studies and mark studies as preliminary.
NovaRad Corp. has introduced NovaRIS, a Web-based, open standards RIS that generates reports, analyzes exams, measures profitability and facilities paperless management of patient records.
NovaRIS maximizes productivity by tracking exact reimbursement costs that insurance companies paid for, and which procedures are currently making or losing money. It can even track the productivity of individual radiology techs.
