The CARESTREAM DRX-Evolution Plus includes new capabilities to further enhance workflow and offer improved visualization of anatomy. The new system offers a sleek new design with LED lighting for enhanced functionality and esthetics; greater flexibility in high-ceiling rooms via an extended tube column; a new high-performance generator; an optional table to accommodate patients up to 320 Kg and forward-looking design specifications to embrace new advanced imaging applications as they become available. An innovative wall stand Bucky-angulation feature expedites cross table and other complex X-ray exams, while a tube touch screen allows a radiographer to change techniques and view images from the tube. Pediatric capabilities include automatic technique and image processing for seven pediatric body size categories. The system is also equipped with bone suppression software for optimized viewing of soft tissue and a fast, secure log-in process using RFID badges. A transbay option enables fast tube movement across multiple trauma bays, which helps expedite treatment while minimizing movement of critically ill or injured patients. Other features include automatic acquisition and stitching for long-length and supine imaging exams and IHE Dose Reporting to facilitate data sharing with a facility’s dose management system. The DRX-Evolution Plus offers modular components and configurations. For maximum productivity, the system can be configured with a fixed detector in the wall stand and one or two additional wireless detectors that can be used for table Bucky and tabletop exams. Like other members of the company’s portfolio of DRX systems, the DRX-Evolution Plus enables each DRX detector to work with all other DRX systems within a provider’s environment.
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Thales introduces a new class of flat panel detectors, the Pixium portable 3543 DR, extending its range of cassette size portable detectors. As the latest product in the line, the Pixium portable 3543 DR features the most state-of-the-art performance levels of any portable flat panel detectors on the market. The Pixium portable 3543 DR combines the best technology developed by Trixell, the joint venture between Thales, Siemens and Philips for the development of flat panel detectors. It also optimizes design to cost parameters which helps reduce total cost of ownership, thus bringing high-end digital radiography within easy reach of any OEM or integrator regardless of budgetary constraints. Because it is wifi-enabled, it offersmore flexibility and allows technicians to quickly share images with diagnosticians, thus streamlining hospital operations. It also includes a lightweight, X-ray, auto-detection, image storage, multi-share with automatic attachment by infra-red. It can also support new communication protocols such as Near Field Communication (NFC), and features two types of scintillators, CsI as well as Gadox, making it suitable for new radiography equipment or retrofit of existing analogue systems.
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Prevent sleep-related traffic accidents! Screen for sleep apnea!

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), a sleep-related breathing disorder, is not only an independent risk factor for hypertension, but it also raises the risk of both traffic accidents and cardiovascular mortality.
Screen for OSAS with Meditech apneABP, an ambulatory blood pressure monitor with OXY (SpO₂) module, which can be used for early recognition in primary care.

Meditech apneABP features and benefits

–         full 24-hour blood pressure profile for diagnosing hypertension
–         full SpO2  profile for diagnosing apneic episodes
–         full actigraphy profile for monitoring physical activity levels
–         pulse waveforms for an insight on artery conditions

In around 30% of all patients undergo a polysomnography, no apnea is detected. Meditech apneABP is a reliable and inexpensive tool to screen for apnea in your hypertensive patients in primary care.
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With up to twice higher signal levels than 1.5T systems, 3.0T MR systems improve spatial resolution and therefore provide more information on very fine anatomical structures. Typically, 3.0T MRIs are common in academic and research hospitals. Now the SIGNA Pioneer brings the power of 3.0T for clinical use and it is designed for accessibility to a broader range of healthcare providers. The SIGNA Pioneer 3.0T MRI delivers the ease-of-use and flexibility of a 1.5T system, with improved image homogeneity and reproducibility for oncology and spine imaging for example. In addition, ultra-high efficiency gradient technology enables high performance, even during demanding clinical applications such as cardiology or oncology. Using equivalent imaging parameters, physicians can use the signal gain to shorten patients’breath-holds for liver exploration; SIGNA Pioneer also enables free-breathing body imaging for a much improved patient experience but also image quality in very challenging situations. The new MAGiC sequence is a major innovation in neuroimaging enabling clinicians to generate six contrasts in a single scan and in as little as one-third of the total time taken to acquire each contrast separately using conventional techniques. After an acquisition of only approximately 5 minutes, it is now possible to adjust the image contrast in real time, even after completing the scan, by simply moving a dynamic cursor to change conventional MRI acquisition parameters (TE, TR and TI) depending on the disease or the age of the patient. MAGiC also provides quantitative information (maps T1, T2, and proton density) that opens new perspectives for the characterization and monitoring of lesions. This has the potential to provide physicians the ability to detect and characterize earlier and more precisely small or secondary lesions, improving the diagnosis and monitoring of patients with neurodegenerative disorders, and enabling the adjustment of the treatment of cancer patients. Patients with neurodegenerative disease, who cannot remain still during the examinations, can also now benefit from MR. With new advanced 3D motion correction software, SIGNA Pioneer will compensate patient movement to provide the same image quality and comfort for diagnosis despite involuntary movements. An enhanced SilentScan package also dramatically reduces scan noise from excess of 110 decibels (dBA) for conventional MRI scans to just three dBA above ambient noise for most head exams, a major differentiator for patient comfort and to minimize the risk of deteriorating image quality in anxious patients.
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