Press ReleasesTeraRecon and the University of Maryland partner for live evaluation of workflow-based 3D at SCAR San Mateo, CA--May 18, 2004: TeraRecon and radiologists from the University of Maryland will partner in a live evaluation of workflow-based 3D imaging at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology, to be held at Technical Exhibit Hall in Vancouver, Canada on May 21-22. Dr. Bruce Reiner, Director of Research, Maryland VA Healthcare System states, "With the widespread adoption of MDCT, radiologists are faced with the dilemma of interpreting significantly larger and more complex datasets. In order to maintain appropriate levels of workflow and productivity, radiologists will ultimately need to display and review cross-sectional data in a multi-planar format." The joint exhibit will gauge the effectiveness of how physicians learn to navigate 3D datasets after watching a brief 3-minute training video for TeraRecon's AquariusNET system for enterprise-wide, workflow-based 3D, to measure the impact of educational software on radiologists' ability to effectively apply 3D tools such as multi-planar reconstruction. TeraRecon will also be showcasing the recently introduced AquariusGATE software, which provides for efficient utilization of limited bandwidth when transferring large medical imaging datasets across a network. AquariusGATE receives images from existing medical imaging devices using the standard DICOM protocol, and then applies configurable and rules based lossy or lossless compression before routing the datasets to a receiving station which reconstitutes the images and relays them to the receiving device, also using the standard DICOM protocol. In this way, AquariusGATE can be used to connect existing devices efficiently across wide area networks without the need for customized or proprietary interface solutions. "AquariusGATE offers performance enhancements for existing wide area networks and even internal networks already over-burdened with too much traffic" said Robert Taylor, Ph.D., TeraRecon's COO and executive vice president. "AquariusGATE can be used to intelligently match the compression applied to the clinical application in question, maximizing the efficiency of network utilization and improving performance for all network users. For example, diagnostic review may require lossless or visually lossless compression, whilst clinical distribution to the enterprise's physicians can be adequately performed with higher factors of lossy compression. AquariusGATE provides a programmable mechanism for managing such image routing tasks in a very cost-effective software package." About TeraRecon, Inc. Contact:
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