Press ReleasesTeraRecon delivers immensely powerful enterprise 3D solution with AquariusNET Distributed Clustering at RSNA 2003 San Mateo, CA-- November 29, 2003: TeraRecon announced a new and immensely powerful feature of its AquariusNET enterprise 3D server at the 89th annual Radiological Society of North America meeting, McCormick Place, Chicago IL. The new Distributed Clustering capability builds on the company's AquariusNET server, which is already a widely implemented and uniquely powerful solution for enterprise-wide management of modern radiology examinations. AquariusNET uses server-based, hardware-powered rendering and thin-client interaction from regular networked PC's throughout the enterprise. As such, AquariusNET delivers 3D processing and workflow-friendly 3D clinical applications directly to radiologists as part of their daily diagnostic practice. The speed, efficiency and simplicity of AquariusNET make advanced image processing a viable everyday reality, enabling radiologists and physicians to cost-effectively apply reimbursable procedures for the benefit of more patients that would otherwise be practical due to the restraints of time and resources. With the growing demands for advanced image processing and management in larger institutions, the need for multiple servers within any given enterprise is growing, either to serve a larger group of radiology sub-specialties, or to provide specific modalities with dedicated rendering and image processing power. However the great clinical benefit of having access to multiple complementary modalities is simultaneous review of results from each, to provide a fuller and deeper understanding of the patient's condition, diagnosis and appropriate course of therapy. In this regard, existing image management and PACS systems have only been able to offer relatively limited multi-modality display capabilities, without necessarily providing advanced clinical application support or requisite image processing power to best utilize the combined multi-modality information. Now, with AquariusNET Distributed Clustering, a higher level of multi-modality, enterprise-wide advanced processing has been made possible. A single diagnostic review station running the AquariusNET client software can now select a study from a "global" list of examinations in the enterprise, whether they reside on a local server, a server in another department, or a server on the other side of the world linked by a Virtual Private Network. The client will seamlessly display any of these examinations by intelligently distributing the rendering task among multiple servers, in a manner entirely transparent to the user. In addition, the AquariusNET client features advanced clinical application support to best review these multi-modality examinations, such as a comprehensive and intuitive overlay tool, for display of data from pairs of modalities, such as CT/PET, CT/MR or PET/MR. The system also features the ability to display up to four examinations from the same or different modalities concurrently, even if they reside on different servers across the network, with linked cursors and localization markers for series acquired with the same DICOM Frame of Reference identifier. AquariusNET Distributed Clustering treats all available servers as one large resource, making possible management of very large datasets, or many normally sized examinations, without the user needing to be aware of the intelligent resource management occurring automatically "behind the scenes". In effect, a group of widely distributed servers behaves as a powerful cluster of processing and storage nodes, to deliver optimal performance and functionality dynamically wherever it is required in the enterprise. When combined with the advanced multi-modality display capabilities of TeraRecon's Personal Digital Lightbox, AquariusNET Distributed Clustering promises to launch a new era of multi-modality, enterprise-wide advanced processing for medical imaging. About TeraRecon, Inc. Contact:
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