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Carestream Health’s latest workstation integrates third-party CAD software for breast MRI, and ultrasound exams. Carestream Health announced it is taking orders for the latest version of its fully featured multi-modality breast imaging workstation, which will be available by the end of June.

In addition to providing efficient review of all types of digital breast imaging exams, the Kodak Carestream Mammography Workstation also features integration of Confirma Carestream software for breast MRI exams and Cedara B-CAD software for breast ultrasound exams.

“Our mammography workstation provides efficient review of mammographic studies captured by FFDM (full-field digital mammography), computed radiography, ultrasound and MRI modalities. It also displays CAD markers and expedites the ‘second read’ resulting from examination of these marked areas,” says Stephen Archer of Carestream Health.

Workstation features include:
• Ability to efficiently view digital CAD markers that have been applied to digital mammography images. These markers can be turned on and off and healthcare facilities can elect to save imaging studies with or without CAD markers, as dictated by their own protocols.
• Integration of breast MRI and ultrasound CAD software from other vendors to aid in the identification of tumors and lesions.
• An image map to allow the user to quickly identify what part of the image is currently visible on the display.
• Mirrored annotations that can be displayed for comparison views so that the tissue area remains unobstructed during display and printing.
• Tissue invert and window/level. Tissue invert allows breast tissue pixels to be inverted while leaving background pixels unchanged. Window and level adjustments can also be made while the background remains unchanged. Both features provide enhanced visualization of breast anatomy.
• Chest wall justification that automatically pans mammography images so that the chest wall is against the edge of the display window to improve staff productivity and prevent the need for manual adjustments.
• Improved intelli-zoom to divide a mammography image into a minimum number of segments to allow viewing of the entire image at 1:1 resolution in a sequence of steps.

Workstation includes specialized display protocols
The Carestream mammography workstation, which includes two five-megapixel monitors, offers mammography-specific display protocols and tools designed to enhance radiologists’ productivity and an ergonomically designed handheld workflow controller that can help reduce the incidence of repetitive stress injuries. The workstation also supports a variety of input devices including a standard mouse.

Carestream Health markets its Carestream mammography workstation for use with a variety of PACS platforms. Digital general radiology exams can also be displayed on the workstation to support multi-use environments.

Carestream Health’s comprehensive portfolio of mammography solutions include: specialized modules for radiology information systems and PACS; on-site and hosted off-site storage solutions; and a full range of services to help customers improve efficiency, increase productivity and transition to digital imaging solutions. The company also markets a computed radiography system for digital mammography image capture in Canada, Europe and other countries. This system is pending regulatory approval for use in the United States.