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RSNA News - December 2004Product News
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First Non-Invasive Fibroid Treatment
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the ExAblate 2000® by InSightec, the world's first MR image-guided focused ultrasound system designed to target and destroy uterine fibroids.
"[The] approval marks an historic event for InSightec and underscores the importance of imaging technologies not only as diagnostic tools, but also as therapeutic treatment enablers for a growing range of diseases," said Jacob Vortman, Ph.D., company president and CEO. "InSightec is committed to using focused ultrasound surgery and innovative MR imaging to advance the care of patients with serious diseases, and we are exploring the potential application of the ExAblate system in other diseases such as breast, liver, bone and brain cancer."
The ExAblate System integrates focused ultrasound thermal ablation with GE's MR imaging capabilities to provide a non-invasive method for destroying targeted tissue. ExAblate 2000 attaches to a standard 1.5 Tesla GE MR imaging system.
For more information, go to www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/ANSWERS/2004/ANS01319.html.
FDA Approval
Dual Lumen Pigtail Catheter
Vascular Solutions, Inc., has announced FDA clearance for its Langston dual lumen pigtail catheter. The Langston catheter is a two-lumen diagnostic catheter for use in the simultaneous measurement of pressures from two locations in the arterial system.
"This clearance and our impending launch of the Langston catheter continues Vascular Solutions' strategy of delivering clinically unique products for interventional cardiology and interventional radiology," said Howard Root, CEO of Vascular Solutions. "The Langston catheter offers simultaneous accuracy and precise responsiveness in measuring intra-arterial pressure gradients, which is often used in diagnosing valvular disease."
New Product
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New Speech Recognition System
Dragon NaturallySpeaking® 8 Medical is a new release of Scansoft's best-selling medical speech recognition solution. Designed specifically for healthcare organizations, Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Medical is used to instantly and automatically transcribe clinical dictation on a PC with a 99 percent accuracy rate.
The results are reduced cost and turnaround time for manual transcription. This new release is 20 percent more accurate than the prior version, and includes an updated and expanded library of medical specialty dictionaries. It can be used with virtually any Windows-based computerized patient records application.
New Product
Innovative Medical DVD/CD Recording Station
TDK Medical has launched the DMC-2000 DICOM Media Creator, an innovative medical DVD and CD recording solution that incorporates an integrated PC. Connected to any DICOM network, the DMC-2000 network appliance enables on-demand recording of patient studies to DVD or CD, drastically reducing film costs and streamlining workflow.
TDK's proprietary BluPrint™ software provides unprecedented versatility and power in recording and archiving diagnostic reports and non-DICOM data.
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