At the RSNA meeting, Eastman Kodak Health Group of Rochester, NY, plans to show digital image capture systems for mammography exams, new capabilities for its CAD system for mammography, and new upgrades to its RIS and PACS platforms for mammography.
Kodak's DirectView CR Mammography feature for the CR 850, CR 950, and CR 975 readers allows clinicians to produce mammography images using DirectView CR Mammography cassettes and new EHR-M screens. This feature offers hospitals the ability to perform general radiography and mammography exams on the same CR platform. Kodak has begun the premarket approval (PMA) process with the FDA.
The company will also feature the work-in-progress Point-of-Care CR 300M System for Mammography, a dedicated tabletop CR system.
On the CAD side, Kodak will highlight its work on digital CAD algorithms for full-field digital mammography and CR systems for mammography. Work-in-progress enhancements include options for viewing CAD results in portrait or landscape mode; the ability to save scanned mammograms to DICOM files so that digitized films can be sent to an archive or any vendor's PACS; the ability to save log files from the system and report number of markers per film and per case; and the ability to integrate bone mineral density testing into mammography CAD hardware.
Kodak has also developed mammography-specific features for its new CareStream RIS platform, including automatic generation of patient letters and annual recalls, storing original images and a single secondary capture image with CAD markers for digital CAD systems, and support for additional 5-megapixel monitor displays. In its booth, Kodak will feature a work-in-progress integration of its CareStream PACS platform with Confirma's CADstream technology.
By Kate Madden Yee
AuntMinnie.com contributing writer
November 7, 2005
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