Multimodality vendor GE Healthcare will showcase its Discovery VCT PET/CT hybrid imaging system, CardIQ Fusion cardiac software tool, Xeleris 2 nuclear medicine review workstation, Infinia Hawkeye 4 SPECT/CT hybrid imaging device, and FASTlab radiopharmaceutical platform at the RSNA show this year.
GE will highlight Discovery VCT, which marries GE's volumetric CT technology with its Discovery PET system. By combining these systems, Discovery VCT provides physicians with the capability to more accurately diagnose and identify heart disease and other conditions, including cancer and neurological disorders, according to the Chalfont St. Giles, U.K.-based firm.
The company will also introduce CardIQ Fusion, a software fusion application that enables clinicians to perform multimodality image fusion. Designed for cardiac analysis fusion, CardIQ Fusion brings together anatomical and physiological data from CT, PET, and nuclear medicine images on the company's AW Workstation.
The vendor will also demonstrate the Xeleris 2 nuclear medicine review workstation. A highlight of the new system is XFL (Xeleris Floating License), which provides the capability for clinicians to read and process nuclear medicine images from PCs throughout an institution.
Infinia Hawkeye 4, on display at this year's RSNA show, combines GE's Infinia gamma camera with an optimized four-slice CT. The device is built on a platform that is fully optimized for nuclear medicine departments, GE said.
Finally, GE will show its chemistry platform designed to streamline PET radiopharmaceutical production, FASTlab. It features a high-yield and high-reproducibility single-use cassette system that contains premeasured quantities of all chemicals needed for the synthesis of radiopharmaceuticals used by technicians in commercial and research radiopharmacies, the company said.
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
AuntMinnie.com staff writer
November 15, 2006
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