Australian software developer Apollo Medical Imaging Technology will highlight MIStar 3.2, visualization software that includes advanced applications like analyzing dynamic CT and MRI images during contrast-enhanced studies.
The software is designed to run on either notebook computers or PCs, and was developed to improve the image review process, from retrieving images over a network to obtaining results for reporting. It accepts DICOM 3.0 images and supports multiple modalities, including CT, MRI, nuclear medicine, and PET, and automated protocols make it easier to launch applications, according to the company.
Specific clinical applications include calculating various blood perfusion-related parameters such as blood flow (BF), blood volume (BV), mean transit time (MTT), and capillary permeability from dynamic CT brain images, as well as for images from body organs including the kidney and liver. In addition to images, the software provides supplemental information to aid in the assessment of the extent and type of perfusion, blood volume, and capillary permeability changes that are related to stroke or tumor angiogenesis. Such information can be helpful in therapy monitoring, according to the company.
Apollo has submitted a 510(k) application for MIStar 3.2, and the company expects to launch the software in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2005. Research versions of MIStar 3.2 are being evaluated in the U.S., U.K., France, Denmark, Belgium, and Australia.
By Brian Casey
AuntMinnie.com staff writer
November 18, 2004
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