Software Enhances CT Workflow and Storage

Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. (Tustin, CA, USA) recently presented its range of workflow and storage enhancements for its Aquilion CT systems at the Radiological Society of North America's (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago (IL, USA), November 26-December 1, 2006. Toshiba America Medical Systems also demonstrated its new automated PhaseXact software (an additional component of the SURECardio package), which automatically locates the optimal phase of the heartbeat assuring the best image quality, decreasing image reconstruction time by at least 50% and reducing storage requirements.

Advanced rendering and analysis in seconds is now possible with V3's enhanced digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) data transfers. This new option enables data transfer at up to 60 images-per-second. The new SUREPlaque advanced software application available on the Vital Images Vitrea workstation allows clinicians to easily visualize and characterize plaques that are likely to cause acute coronary events. Furthermore, new storage systems optimized for multi-slice CT systems allow easy, economical storage of thin-slice data, delivering a true modality archive developed in partnership with McKesson Corp. (San Francisco, CA, USA) without slowing down picture archiving and communications system (PACS) infrastructure.

The Aquilion 64 CFX easily captures precise, motion-free images of the heart and coronary arteries to identify soft plaque and measure coronary blockages, which can detect signs of disease at its earliest stages and reduce the need for high-risk interventional procedures.



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