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RSNA360.HealthImaging.com archive, patient reconciliation, DICOM Print, a failover option and web-based administration. Konica Minolta (Booth 3409) is introducing a new laser imager for mammography, the DryPro 873 Laser, which provides a 4.0 DMax at 43.75um. It prints in 50 seconds and has a throughput of 150 14-inch x 17-inch sheets per hour, the company says. Laitek (Booth 1606) is spotlighting Migratek v. 2 Advanced Migration Services, which reads, processes and transmits medical imaging data directly from the system database and storage media to the new PACS archive. The tool kit provides a virtual DICOM archive during the data migration process that uniﬁes access to data through a single DICOM Query/Retrieve interface. Merge Healthcare (Booth 4058) is featuring its eFilm Workstation and MergeCOM toolkits, and is highlighting its Fusion and Cedara solution suites. Cedara OpenEyes image processing, visualization and manipulation platform can help developers create clinical applications, enabling acceleration of application development via imaging development tools, including technology for 2D, 3D and 4D visualization. mPlexus (Booth 9551) is debuting version 2.0 of its DICOM router product, DICOM eXtender, which has been designed to provide a secure transfer of medical images. The features include: DICOM header manipulation; DICOM study import, edit and route; route priority; transmission throttling; basic prefetching; a diagnostic quality viewer; disk space management; and archive functionality. NAI Tech Products (Booth 3819) is introducing its MDR Video RP and MDR Express RP, stand-alone medical image recorders with disk label printing. MDR Video RP records streaming video to CD or DVD media in a DICOM format with color label printing that includes patient demographic data. It can be installed in uoroscopy rooms or on ultrasound, mobile C-arm or endoscopic carts. MDR Express RP provides the disc burning and labeling capability without video capture for modalities that have DICOM output. The RP also has the electronic scribing process. PACSGear (Booth 9142) is demonstrating enhancements to its document and multimedia connectivity solutions MediaWriter and PACSscan. MediaWriter, a DICOM CD/DVD burning system, now integrates reports from DICOM Structured Report and HL7 feeds. Featuring the Epson Discproducer, MediaWriter D200 includes a DICOM viewer to create portable medical records. PACSscan, a document scanning and importing software, now includes functionality to send any electronic informaHealthImaging.com tion to PACS/EHR. PACSGear Print2PACS functionality has been incorporated into PACSscan. peerVue (Booth 5502) is demonstrating capabilities of its qiVue application, a PACS-integrated, web-based solution for healthcare organizations seeking to meet accreditation and regulatory requirements. qiVue equips facilities with capabilities to resolve work ow and regulatory challenges, including: ACR-required peer review; JCAHO Critical Test Results management; ER communications and discrepancies; nighthawk discrepancy management; and consultation and follow-up management. Pegasus Imaging (Booth 3306) is demonstrating the performance of image compression technologies provided within its PICTools Software Development Kit. The PICTools Demo allows the input of bitmap images and RAW images for compression and decompression. It gives image data such as ﬁle sizes before and after, compression ratios and compression and expansion speeds. The user has control over features such as compression type, compression ratio, bit depths and PSNR. Softek Solutions (Booth 7710) is showcasing its Illuminate product, which gives Philips Healthcare iSite PACS users access to radiology reports and their corresponding images. Using a free-text-based search algorithm, Illuminate is available to users of iSite 3.3, 3.5 and 3.6 and can backload and index half a million studies in less than a day. Sony Medical (Booth 4229) is debuting its work-in-progress FilmStation Mammography Film Imager, model UP-DF750. The printer is for full-ﬁeld digital mammography applications and designed to help facilities meet MQSA regulations. The imager yields images in 606 dpi at an ultra-fast print time of 90 sheets per hour. The UPDF750 can stand upright alongside a PC under a desktop and has front-mounted controls and a DICOM 3.0 interface. Sorna (Booth 7632) is exhibiting Reviewer CD, a DICOM viewer that provides a viewing experience of externally created CDs and DVDs and runs on Vista and Windows. Reviewer is designed to acquire, view, store and merge both internally generated and imported DICOM images for new CD/DVD production. Sorna’s MyBabyCD software creates non-DICOM CDs for patients receiving prenatal ultrasound exams. Vidar Systems (Booth 8913) is releasing its Clinical-Express 4.1, the CE-MDD edition of its DICOM ﬁlm acquisition software that is available in English, German, Spanish and Italian. ClinicalExpress 4.1 was developed for use with Vidar’s line of ﬁlm digitizers such as the CAD PRO Advantage, DiagnosticPRO Advantage and Sierra plus. November 2008 | Health Imaging & IT 31 http://RSNA360.HealthImaging.com http://www.HealthImaging.com

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Health Imaging & IT - November 2008 Table of Contents On the Web The Enterprise News Update RIS/PACS Speech PACS Peripherals Advanced Visualization CT DR & CR CAD Molecular Imaging MRI Ultrasound Healthcare IT Furniture reading Services Cardiac Imaging Data Storage & Archiving Displays Oncology Imaging 3T MRI Flexing its Muscle Breast Imaging Workflow: Optimum Efficiency & Beyond Enterprise Long-term Storage: Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best LCD Monitors Sharpen Soft-copy Mammography Defining Lung CAD’s Role Digital Endoscopy: Challenges for Enterprise Imaging Reader's Resource On the Frontline: CT in the ED

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