R2 Technology

Nov 16, 2005

The Sunnyvale, CA, developer of computer-aided detection software will highlight advances to its CT lung and mammography CAD product lines.

R2's ImageChecker CT Lung Nodule version 2.0 CAD software helps radiologists review multislice CT chest exams and enables them to find lesions at an early stage and track their development over time, according to the vendor.

A new tool for the software is Pulmonary Artery Patency Exam for multislice chest CT studies. This technique, launched in mid-2005, helps physicians more accurately and efficiently detect potential pulmonary artery obstructions, such as emboli or tumors, during the review of multislice exams.

In mammography CAD, R2 plans to showcase its ImageChecker DMax CAD system, a high-throughput unit for high-volume mammography centers. The product accepts film and digital images from all major FFDM products and works with reporting systems from Mammography Reporting System, MagView Information Systems, and PenRad Technologies.

ImageChecker DMax also supports the company's DigitalNow software package, launched last year, which helps mammography centers transition to digital mammography. The software is compatible with all DICOM workstations and electronic patient data system integration. It identifies and orients mammography images in the four standard screening views and archives digitized images to a PACS or miniPACS for future use, reducing onsite film storage dependence and file room workload.

In August, R2 and Linköping, Sweden-based mammography workstation developer Sectra expanded the collaboration they forged in 2004, which integrated R2's CAD technology with Sectra's digital mammography unit. R2 will now sell and support Sectra's Breast Imaging Workstation and Breast PACS, a multimodality, multivendor mammography workstation, to clients in the U.S. and Canada. Sectra's products allow use of R2's ImageChecker D digital mammography CAD with images from Fischer Imaging, GE Healthcare, Hologic, and Siemens Medical Solutions.

R2 has also updated its CAD algorithm across the ImageChecker product line. Version 8.0 improves false marker rates at any given sensitivity, according to the Sunnyvale, CA-based company.

By Kate Madden Yee
AuntMinnie.com contributing writer
November 17, 2005