At the RSNA show, bone densitometry and medical informatics firm CompuMed of Los Angeles will feature OsteoGram, its standalone, software-based medical image processing system that allows healthcare providers to screen, diagnose, and monitor osteoporosis using images from analog or digital x-ray equipment.
OsteoGram comes in a few configurations: one for CR and mammography, and one for CAD and mammography. Both have been cleared by the FDA, and CompuMed expects to begin marketing them in the first quarter of 2006. Also at the show, CompuMed will feature its OsteoGram DICOM for CR/DR version 1.3 automated software system, as well as its OsteoGram DICOM for PACS.
In February, the company announced that it had linked OsteoGram to digital mammography equipment so that the system can be used as an accessory tool or integrated into a digital workstation, allowing women to be tested for osteoporosis at the same time as their CR or DR exam, or annual mammogram. In September, CompuMed received the European CE Mark for OsteoGram.
By Kate Madden Yee
AuntMinnie.com contributing writer
November 7, 2005
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