Nuclear medicine connectivity firm Numa of Amherst, NH, gave Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) attendees a first look at two new products the company has introduced this year, NumaRead and NumaServer.
NumaRead enables the translation of images from non-DICOM to DICOM format, addressing a long-standing issue in nuclear medicine of the lack of support for the DICOM protocol. The software also helps automate the migration of PET, nuclear medicine, and nuclear cardiology data from older removable archiving media to more modern online storage such as redundant arrays of independent disks (RAID) or DVD, according to president Larry Smith.
NumaServer is designed to enable the transfer of PET, PET/CT, SPECT/CT, and related image data over high-speed Internet connections. NumaServer uses data compression to enable physicians to move data from one NumaServer to another, freeing up the image acquisition device and enabling physicians to view images remotely. The company estimates that NumaServer can move a full PET/CT dataset over a T1 line in about five minutes.
Both new products tie into the company's NumaStore archiving product, which handles up to 14 terabytes (TB) of data. NumaStore is available in RAID 5 and RAID 6 options, with internal and external tape backup.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
June 7, 2006
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