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| With Fuji's integrated Obliquus 3-D software package, Synapse PACS
users benefit from MIP/MPR
functionality from any Synapse
workstation on the network. |
Awaiting FDA 510(k) review is Obliquus from FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA (FMSU of Stamford, Conn). This integrated 3-D software package is a component of FMSU's Synapse PACS, which provides diagnostic maximum intensity projection (MIP) and multiplanar reconstruction (MPR). Written and developed by FMSU, Obliquus provides high interactive performance and diagnostic image quality, using industry-standard hardware as well as the same consistent user interface of Synapse. The component was designed to reduce the need for Synapse users to require the integration of a third-party vendor's 3-D solution for basic, commonly used functions.
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| Measuring 8 x 10 feet and
weighing less than 2,500 pounds, GE Healthcare's Ventri is designed to become fully operational after a
2-day installation. |
GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wis) has released its latest nuclear cardiology imaging system, geared toward the private practice. Ventri increases the quality of images while aiding patient comfort, and it boasts future upgradeability to an advanced attenuation-correction system. The system is designed to accept an optional integrated X-ray tube and CT detector to attenuation caused by tissue, which leads to artifacts that adversely impact image quality and accuracy of the diagnosis. A thin, carbon-fiber low-attenuation
tabletop is enhanced by
the patented ergonomically designed VentriCare accessories, improving image quality.
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| Terumo's Glidewire GT has a highly elastic nitinol alloy core-a mixture of titanium and nickel-that resists kinking while providing the flexibility and durability to navigate difficult vessel anatomy. |
Terumo Interventional Systems (Somerset, NJ) has launched its Progreat Coaxial Microcatheter System. The new system combines the company's Progreat microcatheter with its Glidewire GT wires, which are used to access difficult lesions. The new system—designed to increase procedural efficiency and reduce the risks of procedural problems, such as kinking—includes a 0.021-inch Glidewire GT and incorporates an attached hub, which allows the wire to be preassembled and fixed via a lure-lock assembly onto a Terumo Progreat microcatheter.
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| The Portégé M400 from
Toshiba incorporates a 12.1-inch
diagonal XGA or SXGA+ display featuring wide-view angle technology. |
Toshiba America Medical Systems (Irvine, Calif) has introduced its Portégé M400 Tablet PC, a new convertible system with advanced performance and productivity innovations—including the company's EasyGuard technology—to create a portable tablet PC capable of running robust business applications. The unit is powered by the Intel Centrino mobile technology that is designed to lower power consumption and component size while boosting overall performance from graphics to wireless capabilities and enhancing security.
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| VirtualScopics has acquired a patent for technology that improves upon the resolution and tissue contrast obtained
from conventional MRI by
fusing together images to
produce 3-D visualization. |
VirtualScopics Inc (Rochester, NY) has been issued a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office for an MR method and system forming an isotopic, high-resolution, 3-D diagnostic image of a subject from 2-D image data scans. This patent relates to a new technology that improves upon the resolution and tissue contrast obtained from conventional MRI, providing more information from those images. Two or more MRI scans are performed from different directions, and the images are fused together using VirtualScopics' software algorithms to produce a high-resolution 3-D visualization of tissue.
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