Nuclear medicine products and services provider MedX arrives in Chicago later this month with a trio of new products: the MedX CardioQuest camera, the MedX ThryoQuest camera, and the NuQuest nuclear medicine workstation.
MedX CardioQuest and ThryoQuest are works-in-progress offerings from Arlington Heights, IL-based MedX. CardioQuest is a dual-head cardiac SPECT camera for perfusion studies that the firm hopes to have available in the U.S. next July.
ThyroQuest, designed for thyroid imaging and evaluations, is also expected to make its U.S. market debut in July 2007. The company said that it would like to have both products available to its customers outside the U.S. in March of 2007.
MedX will also display its NuQuest nuclear medicine workstation, which the firm said provides diagnostic image processing capabilities for cardiac and general nuclear medicine, as well as whole-body imaging.
The system can acquire data from two gamma cameras simultaneously, as well as simultaneously visualize dual-isotope studies. Its clinical analysis capabilities include cardiac SPECT, standard and gated tomographic reconstruction, gated cardiac ejection fraction (SPECT or planar), polar map generation, myocardial perfusion analysis, pulmonary quantification, renal function and perfusion, gall bladder ejection fraction, esophageal transit time, gastric emptying, effective renal plasma flow, parathyroid subtraction, cerebral blood blow, cardiac shunt analysis, 3D processing and display, and center-of-rotation analysis and autocorrection.
The NuQuest nuclear medicine workstation has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance, and is available now worldwide.
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
AuntMinnie.com staff writer
November 15, 2006
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