9/8/2006
For Immediate Release
Hitachi Demonstrates Cardiovascular Imaging Technologies’ ImagenPRO™ and ImagenMD™ Perfusion Software at the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology’s Annual Meeting
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Twinsburg, OH (September 2006) Hitachi Medical Systems America, Inc. will be demonstrating the cardiology-optimized myocardial perfusion imaging capabilities of ImagenPRO and ImagenMD software at the 2006 ASNC Annual Meeting. Developed by Cardiovascular Imaging Technologies (CVIT), this software package works to further enhance the powerful information-processing ability of the Hitachi’s AVIA (Advanced Visualization and Image Analysis) workstation. The Annual Meeting takes place September 7-10 in Montreal; Hitachi will be demonstrating at Booth #621.
“We’re excited to show our cardiac PET customers what can be achieved with the special combination of the AVIA workstation and CVIT’s software,” stated Patti Johnson, AVIA product manager at Hitachi, “ This software has been specifically engineered to address the challenges of processing cardiac PET data, including intra-scan motion, 3D interactive misregistration correction and transmission map resolution matching.”
Offered in conjunction with the AVIA workstation, the ImagenPRO system’s state-of-the-art reconstruction technology optimizes image quality. Using the patented OSEM-B transmission reconstruction algorithm, transmission times can be reduced significantly, thus achieving clinical effectiveness once reserved for expensive PET/CT systems. ImagenMD software offers a quality control suite that allows the clinician unparalleled access to information needed to provide a superior perfusion test, while AVIA simplifies workflow and networking by providing a workstation that centralizes and manages the abundance of clinical data confronting today’s imaging departments. CVIT’s website can be visited at www.cvit.com.
