Mammography System streamlines imaging workflow.
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Mammo(TM) v7.0.1 enables organizations to display and read images from different systems simultaneously (digital mammography, ultrasound, MR, and CR). Enhanced grayscale inversion helps radiologist in converting images from black to white and white to black while maintaining background (non-breast image) as black. Product offers full resolution viewing, optimized screen real estate, and customized workflow tools to support radiologist-specific viewing preferences.
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Merge Healthcare Introduces Version 7.0.1 of Merge Mammo(TM) Diagnostic Mammography Solution for European Market
Newest features in multi-modality, vendor-neutral workstation enhance efficiency, improve clinical reading capabilities and ease transition to digital mammography
MILWAUKEE, June 29 -- Merge Healthcare, (Nasdaq: MRGE; TSX: MRG), a leading medical imaging software and services provider, today announced the release of Merge Mammo(TM) version 7.0.1, which recently received the CE mark for commercial distribution in Europe. As one of the industry's first multi-modality, vendor-neutral digital mammography workstation applications, this system enables organizations to display and read images from different systems simultaneously (digital mammography, ultrasound, MR, CR), and to read all breast studies on a single workstation, regardless of which vendor's acquisition device is used to secure the images.
Version 7.0.1 offers several features including:
Enhanced full-resolution viewing - In full resolution, a digital breast image is larger than a computer screen. Radiologists must therefore pan across the image to view the image in its entirety. The process takes time and increases the likelihood that the radiologist will miss a portion of the read. Merge Mammo solution's new functionality provides a fluid, step-through method, enabling radiologists to move from section to section in full resolution to ensure complete review of the entire image.
Optimized screen "real estate" - In traditional mammographic images, radiologists see more than the breast. Blackened, background areas (often scans of the imaging unit itself) consume a portion of the viewing area. Viewing can be optimized by reducing background and isolating the breast. Merge Mammo now incorporates new algorithm-driven isolation of the breast image. By automatically fitting the breast image into the display, radiologists immediately see the image at maximum size, and avoid the time and distraction of moving and manipulating images.
Enhanced Grayscale Inversion - Some radiologists use an inversion technique when reading images, converting black to white and white to black. Merge Mammo 7.0.1 offers a feature that enables conversion of white (the breast image) to black, while maintaining background (non-breast image) as black. This enhances the radiologist's ability to isolate potential problem areas more effectively when inverting images.
Merge Mammo is designed to streamline breast imaging workflow and enhance clinical reading capabilities. It offers easily customized workflow tools to support radiologist-specific viewing preferences. Facilities in North America using that region's version of Merge Mammo are creating environments that equal or exceed hard copy (film) review speed.
"The Merge Mammo read station and software are easy to use and very intuitive," said Steven Mendelsohn, M.D., Medical Director, Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology, Lindenhurst, N.Y. "All buttons are very intelligently laid out. Hanging protocols - even for comparing multiple prior studies - are not only very robust, but also simple to set up. The software is intuitively facile for many tasks, such as searching for prior studies that may have varied spellings of the patient's name or the addition or subtraction of middle initials. Merge Mammo makes it easy to share and consult on difficult cases across our network, enabling radiologists 30 miles apart to simultaneously view any case."
"Many organizations globally are adopting digital mammography as increasing numbers of clinical trials point toward its potential benefits," said Jacques Cornet, President Merge Healthcare EMEA. "We are eager to offer our digital mammography solution to the European market and are convinced that this version of Merge Mammo will be as successful and as widely accepted in Europe as it has been in North America."
Merge Healthcare is a leading medical imaging software and services company. Our innovative software solutions use leading-edge imaging software technologies that accelerate market delivery for our OEM customers, while our end-user solutions improve our customers' productivity and enhance the quality of patient care they provide. For additional information, visit our website at www.mergehealthcare.com/.
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Source: Merge Healthcare
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