Their dominance in the American market was obvious from their huge exhibition stand. It would be almost impossible to name all the highlights produced by General Electric. The innovative company, with its European headquarters in Dusseldorf, has also had a lot of success with its Synapse PACS system over the last few months. The Japanese company introduced two new readers in Chicago, the Capsula and Clearview systems. Eizo’s LEA (Lifetime Expectancy Analyzer), for instance, can predict the lifetime of the screen’s sensitive backlighting.įujifilm was the first company to introduce digital storage systems in radiography. All display manufacturers have one thing in common - they do not simply offer the hardware (the panels) but also useful software features.
Barco’s 3-D image display and analysis software, Voxar, impresses with its sheer range of functions - leading to its demonstration at numerous other exhibition stands as well.Įizo was another manufacturer presenting 3 Megapixel displays. The radiologist can use the same monitor to make a diagnosis viewing images of the lungs, or to view 3-D reconstructions of the heart in colour. These new, high-resolution colour displays are calibrated with the DICOM-Grayscale. The DC 240 prints bones and soft tissue in colour or black and white on DIN A3 or DIN A4 paper.īarco, manufacturer of display solutions, presented colour monitors with three million pixels. However, emphasis at Agfa was on its Impax Enterprise, which includes Impax RIS (radiology information system) and the new release 6.0 of Impax PACS as important parts of the electronic patient file.Īycan, well known in Germany as a pioneer of the DICOM concept, introduced the Xerox Dokucolor 240 - the new flagship product for the printing of X-ray images on paper. The co-operation between the two companies envisages that Agfa will offer their customers the digital mammography system manufactured by Siemens and that in return, Siemens will include Agfa’s range of digital storage systems in their portfolio. The Agfa exhibition stand - still adorned with the Siemens logo – displayed Mammomat Novation.
The co-operation between Agfa and Siemens is already successful. Over 700 companies presented their latest products at this year’s event in Chicago. This is why, he said, he would be pleased if more radio-oncologists played an active role in the RSNA. ‘If diagnostic radiology and radio-oncology co-operated more, this could only be for the benefit of cancer patients,’ he emphasised. In his opening speech Dr David H Hussey, president of the RSNA, indicated that he hopes for closer co-operation between the doctors involved in diagnosis and therapy.
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