Mammography Systems Help Facilities Move from Analog to Digital

Developed by Agfa HealthCare (Morsel, Belgium), the extended range of digital mammography systems are built on the company's considerable expertise in mammography, imaging, and workflows. The expanded range of integrated systems provide a variety of advancements, including image acquisition based on computed radiography (CR) (currently not available in the United States) and direct radiography (DR) technologies, and MUSICA (multi-scale image contrast amplification) image processing, diagnostic reporting, and workflow systems based on its Impax picture archiving and communication system (PACS) as well as hardcopy output on the new Drystar Axys tabletop dry imager.

For diagnostic reporting, Impax 6, the latest version of Agfa HealthCare's PACS, features new functionalities for multi-modality breast imaging applications. The new Agfa HealthCare's Impax Mammography Screening system has been designed for the requirements in mammography screening environments. It enables fast reading and reporting as well as configurable tailored to local workflows and integrated with screening administration and information systems.

Also of note for high-volume mammography departments is Agfa HealthCare's Impax Data Center, which addresses the storage issues relating to the large volume of images generated by mammography departments. The Impax Data Center is a scalable and fault-tolerant Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) archive system designed to store clinical DICOM data objects, including DICOM-encapsulated non-imaging objects (such as waveforms, structured reports, and PDFs). The system can manage millions of exams and petabytes (one thousand terabytes) of information.

Agfa HealthCare supplies hospitals and other healthcare centers with state-of-the-art systems for the capturing, processing, and managing of diagnostic images and with information technology (IT) systems that integrate information and imaging workflows into the overall hospital operations across departmental disciplines.


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