Overhead Tube Support from Amrad
Amrad (Chicago) has introduced the Advantage Overhead Tube Support (OTS), a medical-grade structure that’s ideal for sophisticated imaging environments. The Advantage OTS features stainless-steel precision bearings, hardened steel tracks, a telescopic column with a double cable safety system, and digital SID indicators.
888-772-6723 • www.amradxray.net
Metal Instrument Cart from Anthro
Anthro Corp (Tualatin, Ore) has introduced its newest all-metal instrument cart. Featuring a small footprint for easy transportation down aisles and around corners, the instrument cart comes with two shelves on a metal frame with 3-inch hard rubber casters and a handle. An optional strap and buckle set—for use on the slotted lower shelves—helps secure equipment. Shelves, which can be installed in 1-inch increments, can hold up to 50 pounds, with a total cart weight capacity of 100 pounds evenly distributed.
800-325-3841 • www.anthro.com
DICOM Gateway from Array
Array Corp (Brentwood, NH) has released the DICOM Pro Capture, a Windows-based application tool that allows legacy-based modalities to acquire, store, and print quality DICOM images. Featuring dual-modality support and touch screen capabilities, the DICOM Pro Capture enhances the work process of customer PACS with a variety of tools that allow users to spool images to a disk buffer, connect up to eight inputs, track queue management, and view log files.
866-680-7500 • www.arrayusa.com
Imaging Catheters from Boston Scientific
Boston Scientific Corp (Natick, Mass) has added two models to its family of Atlantis imaging catheters. The Atlantis SR Pro coronary imaging catheter offers 40MHz resolution, providing clinicians with the imaging clarity necessary for preassessment of stent sizing and placement as well as post-procedural evaluation of stent apposition. And the Atlantis PV peripheral imaging catheter offers an over-the-wire .035-inch design for more efficient procedures. Its proximal prep makes flushing the catheter quick; a soft radiopaque tip provides enhanced visibility; and the 1-cm graduated markers help measure lesion length.
508-650-8000 • www.bostonscientific.com
High-Speed Image/Data Exchange from DALSA
DALSA Corp (Waterloo, Ontario) has released DALSA NetLink, a technology that enables long-distance, high-speed image and data exchange between DALSA cameras and PCs via Gigabit Ethernet. The technology, which is available in two models, allows users to eliminate image capture boards traditionally required within the PC. NetLink Base facilitates sending information to a single PC from one or more DALSA cameras. NetLink Pro allows for transmission of data from one or more cameras to multiple PCs for parallel processing applications.
519-886-6000 • www.vfm.dalsa.com
Disposable Wear from Ecoscience
Ecoscience Products (San Juan Capistrano, Calif) offers a full line of low-cost disposable wear, including shoe covers, aprons, gloves, head coverings, finger cots, face masks, and ESD wrist straps. Disposable items are a cost-effective substitute for reusable, woven garments, due to its initial low product cost as well as inherent savings in energy, water, and labor for laundering and/or autoclaving.
Fax: 949-661-7234 • www.ecoscienceproducts.com
Report on Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting from ECRI
ECRI (Plymouth Meeting, Pa) has released the 2003 update of its technology assessment report, “Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (OPCABG) on the Beating Heart for Coronary Artery Disease.” The report includes new evidence about the rate of conversion of off-pump to on-pump procedures; it also identifies a trend toward lower cognitive defects among some OPCABG recipients. An update from a 2002 report, this version highlights results for four key outcomes covered in the original assessment: the average length of hospital stay; the short-term (30 days or less) morbidity rate; the short-term mortality rate; and the mid-term (3–25 months) efficacy.
610-825-6000 • www.ecri.org
Multifunction Touch Monitor from ELO TouchSystems
ELO TouchSystems Inc (Fremont, Calif) now offers the 1229L, a 12-inch LCD multifunction, integrated touch monitor. The 1229L includes options for magnetic strip reader (MSR), a rear-facing LED customer display, and a biometric fingerprint-recognition device. Available touch technologies on the monitor allow for input to be activated by a range of styli, including finger, fingernail, gloved hand, and credit card. The 1229L also features a compact design to save workspace.
800-ELO-TOUCH • www.elotouch.com
Advanced Breast Care System from Giotto
Giotto USA (Wichita, Kan) offers the Giotto Image system, which includes diagnostic mammography, prone and upright stereo with digital biopsy, and full-field digital with amorphous selenium technology. The system features patented tilted circular gantry design to offer multiple approach positioning capabilities—including face-to-face, which is less physically demanding on the technologist and more comfortable to the patient. With the option of a digital biopsy targeting device called Biopsy Digit, the system can be converted from diagnostic mammography to a highly precise, prone stereotactic system within minutes, or used in the upright position.
316-393-5966 • E-mail: [email protected]
Bonding and Sealing Technology from Liquid Control
Liquid Control Corp (North Canton, Ohio) offers the Small Shot Package, a new technology for medical device bonding and sealing. Features of the Small Shot include air-free packaging of materials part A and part B in syringes; a PosiDot valve to fill metered and mixed material, on demand, to a singular, smaller syringe; and a Dispensit 802-20 or 802-30 pinch-tube valve for dispensing small shots of mixed material at individual workstations. A compact design allows for additional Dispensit valves and controllers to be added at individual workstations that are fed with syringes filled from the original PosiDot.
330-494-1313 • www.liquidcontrol.com
Recirculating Chillers from PolyScience
PolyScience (Niles, Ill) offers a line of recirculating chillers that include such features as a digital pressure/flow rate display and user-settable temperature, pressure, and flow rate alarms. Designed to provide precise and reliable cooling for MRI systems, the chillers maintain process temperatures from –10?C to 70?C, with ?0.1?C stability. Each chiller also can be equipped with the pump type—centrifugal, positive displacement, or turbine—that’s best suited for the particular application.
800-229-7569 • www.polyscience.com
Nonacute Healthcare Storage Solutions from Spacesaver
Spacesaver Corp (Fort Atkinson, Wis) has produced a new brochure that features the company’s nonacute healthcare storage solutions. This four-color brochure highlights the different high-density mobile storage applications—from laboratory to outpatient surgery to medical records—that are available for nonacute facilities. Also included are details on the benefits of the company’s other storage options for smaller storage needs, including rotary storage, shelving, and cabinets.
800-492-3434 • www.spacesaver.com
High-Res DR from Swissray
Swissray International (Elizabeth, NJ) has introduced ddRRealtime, an imaging method that provides high-resolution digital radiographs acquired at fast-frame rates. The introduction of ddRRealtime extends the clinical utility of the company’s direct DR systems by enabling joint motion and other kinematic studies as well as rapid skeletal survey in the trauma environment. ddRRealtime will be made available as a retrofit for currently installed Swissray ddR systems.
908-353-0971 • www.swissray.com
Analog-to-Digital Converter from Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Inc (Dallas) now offers the ADS5500, a 14-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC). At 125 mega samples per second (MSPS), the ADC increases system capabilities while the low total power dissipation (750 mW) improves system reliability and allows higher channel density. Specifically with MRI, the ADS5500’s high signal-to-noise ratio and sample rate increase image quality of the scans with lower magnetic fields, reducing shielding requirements. The higher sampling rate also can simplify the filter requirements of MRI systems.
800-477-8924 • www.ti.com
