Product News: Page 548

E-Z-EM debuts Varibar for imaging of swallowing
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
E-Z-EM has introduced Varibar, a family of contrast formulations designed specifically for fluoroscopic examination of the swallowing process.
May 21, 2001
Kodak sells 15,000th DryView laser imager
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Eastman Kodak's Health Imaging division has shipped its 15,000th dry laser imager, the Rochester, NY, company reported last week. The company's DryView line ranges from the DryView 8610 for digital mammography applications to the DryView 8200, for CR applications.
May 20, 2001
Toshiba debuts Nemio ultrasound scanners
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems has launched a new line of ultrasound systems known as Nemio.
May 7, 2001
RealTimeImage adds to iPACS
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
SALT LAKE CITY - Imaging-streaming technology developer RealTimeImage has added several new features to its iPACS viewer. A complete set of measurement tools has been incorporated, as well as Magnifinder, a magnifier that allows the user to view small regions of interest at image quality comparable to lossless compression, even during the lossy stages of the image-streaming process.
May 4, 2001
Hologic files PMA for Lorad digital mammography system
By Erik L. Ridley
Hologic has moved closer to its goal of commercializing a full-field digital mammography system. The Bedford, MA-based vendor has filed a premarket approval application with the Food and Drug Administration for its Lorad charge-coupled device (CCD)-based unit.
May 3, 2001
Bayesian network aids in diagnosing primary bone tumors
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
SALT LAKE CITY - Neural networks are all the rage in computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) tools. A group of researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee believe that the use of a Bayesian network may have advantages over neural nets.
May 3, 2001
Webmedx joins forces with Amicas
SALT LAKE CITY - Radiology information systems provider Webmedx has signed an agreement with PACS developer Amicas to create a Web-native RIS/PACS.
May 3, 2001
ThinAir Data eyes untapped market for speech recognition, RIS
By Erik L. Ridley
SALT LAKE CITY - The U.S. radiology information systems (RIS) marketplace has been a slow-growth sector for years, and is often considered to be mature, if not saturated. But that's not the case in imaging centers and small to mid-size hospitals, according to RIS and speech recognition provider ThinAir Data.
May 3, 2001
Sunquest net income edges down in Q1
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Sunquest Information Systems reported first-quarter revenues of $31.8 million, up 10.8% compared with revenues of $28.7 million for the same period last year.
May 2, 2001
eMed customer to add WAN capability
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Las Vegas radiology group Desert Radiologists is planning to expand its large-scale image management system with wide-area, on-demand capability using eMed Technologies' Ideal Wide Access offering.
May 2, 2001
RaidZone brings low-cost RAID archiving to SCAR
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
SALT LAKE CITY - For PACS users, long-term storage media choices have typically been confined to options such as CD-ROM, magneto-optical disc (MOD), and digital linear tape (DLT). Unfortunately, these approaches often fail to provide sufficiently rapid retrieval times for deployment in network-attached storage (NAS) applications, an increasingly popular form of digital image archiving.
May 2, 2001
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Sunquest to debut radiology alerting system
By Kate Madden Yee
SALT LAKE CITY - Medical errors continue to exact a highly publicized toll on the healthcare system in the U.S., both in patient mortality and dollars. As more and more states introduce legislation to deal with the problem, information systems firms are developing alerting software that connects patient information to the people who need it, in hopes of reducing the incidence of medical error.
May 2, 2001
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