Carestream to Showcase Latest Imaging Technologies at ECR 2013

Among the hundreds of companies exhibiting their products at this year’s ECR (March 7-11, 2013, Vienna, Austria), Carestream Health (Rochester, NY, USA), a worldwide provider of medical imaging systems and healthcare IT solutions, plans to show a number of technologies designed to advance patient care. Among these are a new portal that allows patient management of X-ray exams, a new lesion management tool, and a digital radiography detector that delivers dose-sensitive X-ray images.

The MyVue patient portal lets patients manage their X-ray exams and share them with their healthcare providers. The portal is Web based and allows patients to download the results of their medical exams. The system is available as an option for Vue PACS and Vue Archive.

The new lesion management tools help improve the evaluation and asses the progress of cancerous lesions of oncology patients. The application can be added to Vue PACS and it provides semiautomatic tracking and segmentation of modalities, and each measurement generates an anatomical bookmark for radiologists to navigate and to diagnose.

The Carestream DRX 2530C detector, the smaller format (25 x 30 cm) digital radiography detector, will be shown as a work in progress. Its new cesium-iodide detector offers high efficiencies for dose sensitive pediatric, orthopedic, and general radiology exams. Its smaller size fits pediatric incubator trays and offers high DQE, which can lead to lower dose requirements. The DRX 2530C detector is intended for the Carestream DRX-Revolution or the Carestream DRX-Mobile Retrofit Kits for the imaging of neonatal or pediatric patients. In addition, the smaller detector aids the positioning in exams that require smaller fields of view or patients holding the detector.

A new motorized option for the Carestream DRX-Evolution will also be shown. The DRX-Evolution Standard-Q offers affordable upgrade to digital radiography. Standing exams are made easier with the wall stand and the extra-wide elevating float-top table lowers to accommodate wheelchair and stretcher patients, as well as bariatric patients.

A new module displays digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) exams for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)-compliant acquisition devices on the Carsetream Vue Mammo Workstation, where radiologists can also view mammograms, breast ultrasound, breast MRI, and other radiology exams from a single desktop. Comparison tools enable radiologists to use personalized hanging protocols for DBT exams along with other procedures.

A full range medical printing system, the DRYVIEW 5950 Laser Imaging System produces 508-pixels/inch ouput for general radiology and mammography images. The system is equipped with a built-in densitometer that will produce test prints and display the data needed to support mammography quality control charting, which can eliminate the need for an external densitometer and can reduce the time required for mammography quality control.

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