Israeli nuclear medicine developer UltraSPECT of Haifa used the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) meeting in San Diego to promote its wide-beam reconstruction (WBR) technology, which the company markets as an add-on module to improve the image quality and speed of gamma cameras.
UltraSPECT installs its technology as a module on a network that takes data from a facility's conventional SPECT camera and processes it using proprietary resolution-recovery algorithms. The WBR algorithms enable facilities to either perform studies with fewer count rates, resulting in faster exams, or produce better-quality studies at the same imaging times, according to Dr. Shuli Shwartz, president of the company.
UltraSPECT has been shipping the cardiac version of its software, Xpress.cardiac, for the last six months, and the bone version, Xpresss.bone, for the past year. Xact.bone is a version that enables users to conduct bone studies with twice the resolution in the same scan time.
UltraSPECT should get a boost thanks to a nonexclusive distribution deal signed recently with GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K. GE gains rights to sell UltraSPECT's Xpress.cardiac software through the deal.
In the future, UltraSPECT plans on making further reductions in scan time through the use of add-on hardware, such as by replacing a camera's collimators. The company also plans to look at developing versions of its technology for other imaging modalities.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
June 7, 2006
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UltraSPECT builds client list, September 22, 2004
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