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CAPTUS 3000 ® Count on Capintec with the Jump Headline speCial seCTion praCTiCe managemenT Thyroid Uptake and Well System The Captus® 3000 comes Captus ® 3000 equipped with a “Quick Start Displaying the Up” feature that walks the Quick Start-Up Screen user through all program setup functions. The feature will have you performing patient studies in no time! It also serves as a training tool for additional users, while providing fast, dedicated modules for Thyroid Uptake, Wipe Tests, Schilling Test, Blood Volume, RBC Survival and Bio-Assay. clinical application vendor. That, unfortunately, is why we’re one of the slower adoptees of this technology.” advanced visualization restructures architecture The use of large image datasets with advanced visualization capabilities has demonstrated great clinical utility; however, the increase in near-isotropic image datasets presents a non-trivial data management and informatics challenge for PACS administrators, according to Paul J. Chang, MD. Chang, professor and vice-chairman of radiology informatics, medical director of pathology informatics at the University of Chicago School of Medicine, and medical director of enterprise imaging at the University of Chicago Hospitals, discussed advanced visualization archive strategies during the 2008 DHIMS conference. He notes that there is a definite trend toward on-demand archive design, with less emphasis on hierarchical storage models. “The penalty for migration of very large datasets from slower media is increasingly unacceptable,” he says. Users of advanced visualization tools want on-demand study retrieval across the image enterprise. System administrators seeking to meet the advanced visualization archive challenge have six models, with variations, from which to select, according to Chang. With advantages and disadvantages to consider before determining which best meets the needs of an institution. The Selective Archive model has the advantages of being trivial to implement and permanently stores only “thick” slices, which is the least demanding on PACS archive storage requirements, Chang says. However, because only stored key images are available, it is not able to use interactive advanced visualization on prior or even relatively recent studies. “It’s not able to take full advantage of future visualization and analysis tools on prior studies,” he notes. A Selective Archive model with temporary cache strategy will allow the use of interactive advanced visualization on all current and relatively recent prior studies, depending on the size of the cache, Chang said. The downside is that once the prior studies are no longer resident in the temporary cache, these tools are not able to be used. A Complete Dataset model permanently stores both thick and think slices, which allows for advanced visualization technology to be used on all current and prior studies. The disadvantage is that this greatly increases the PACS permanent archive storage requirements, Chang notes. “Storing both thick and thin slices within a PACS archive is wasteful and redundant.” A Complete Dataset model with a Pseudo-Integrated Workstation scheme provides the advantage of making advanced visualization tools available via a “plug-in” and is less disruptive to HealthImaging.com Cap-DICOM Software ® Capintec is proud to announce a new software application for its Captus ® 3000 Thyroid Uptake System designed to help meet the needs of our customers working in a digital reporting environment Cap-DICOM™ adds DICOM modality worklist and DICOM export to the Captus® 3000. This solution allows patient information and demographics to be pulled from the Radiology Information System (RIS) or Hospital Information System (HIS), thus, reducing errors and time associated with the manual input of patient information. Cap-DICOM™ creates a DICOM secondary capture image from information generated during the uptake procedure. The software exports the DICOM image files to a destination DICOM C-Store provider specified by the user. This destination may be a nuclear medicine workstation or PACS. Visit Capintec at SNM 2008 Booth #1355 To learn more about the Captus ® 3000 Thyroid Uptake System, Cap-DICOM ™ Software and many other great Capintec products, contact a Capintec representative at 201-825-9500 or toll free at 800-631-3826. Capintec, Inc. 201.825.9500• 800.631.3826 www.capintec.com 58 Health Imaging & IT | May 2008 http://www.capintec.com http://www.capintec.com http://HealthImaging.com

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Health Imaging & IT - May 2008 Contents On the Web The Enterprise News Update Convention Spotlight: SIIM 2008 Healthcare IT Salary Survey Survey Findings Inside the Transition to Next-Generation Image Management Blurring the Lines: Interfaced vs. Integrated RIS/PACS The Insider's Primer: Taming the Workflow Beast - Five Facilities Tell How Availability, Applications Drive New Archive Strategies Modality Review Managing Technology Inside Technology Reader's Resource Stat Sheet

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