NEW PRODUCT
Patient Data Portal Application
RIS Concepts (www.risconcepts.com) now offers a patient data access portal option for its flagship enterprise RCI-RIS, a browser-based multifacility application that supports a comprehensive range of advanced RIS features. Using the portal, patients registered with a radiology practice's site can log in over the Internet and download their reports and related data in real time, using a HIPAA-compliant password. Patients also have access to the radiologist's final signed reports.
PRODUCT UPGRADE
DICOM Workstation
Version 2.2 of RADiON DICOM Workstation (www.dicomworkstation.com) by Ashva Technologies is now Windows Vista compatible and has new features including hanging protocols, key images, series synchronization, merge/split studies, image stitching and digital subtraction angiography, as well as the ability to download studies in the background and archival and backup modules. The new version also includes improved reporting features such as reporting notes, categorization of reports based on study and multiple versions for each report.
NEW PRODUCT
Fiber Material Grids for Dose Reduction
Dunlee (www.dunlee.com) introduces a new line of Smit-Röntgen grids for CR and DR applications. The new "Hi-5" grid utilizes 5 mm-high interspace material between the lead lamella that focus the radiation and absorb the scatter, resulting in dose reductions of up to 40 percent and improved image quality. Smit-Röntgen grids use fiber in place of aluminum, offering the advantage of lower radiation attenuation and a better signal-to-noise ratio. Improved selective transmission through the grid means that radiation doses can be lowered to reveal the same quality images.
NEW PRODUCT
MR Ventricular Analysis Software
Pie Medical Imaging (www.piemedicalimaging.com) introduces a new release of its cardiac MR quantitative analysis software, CAAS MRV. CAAS MRV enables cardiologists and radiologists to perform easy and fast functional analysis on cine-magnetic resonance images for cardiac MR studies. The quantitative analysis package provides automatic segmentation of the endo- and epicardial left ventricular heart wall on short- and/or long-axis images. The viability analysis and perfusion analysis modules, currently available only for research in the U.S., easily quantify delayed enhancement studies and assess the local deterioration of myocardial blood flow.
