Carestream Health announced its new Image Suite, a fully featured, affordable CR/mini- PACS solution that adeptly satisfies both the imaging needs and budgets of clinics and physicians’ offices.

Carestream Health 's Image Suite combines selected models of CR systems with PACS software that can run on a variety of PC-based workstations. Use of standard PCs helps lower costs and delivers greater flexibility for users.

Image Suite also delivers comprehensive image review capabilities including magnification, annotations, measurements, layout and other tools. Clinicians can adjust and reprocess raw image data on the host workstation to enhance visualization capabilities and help deliver better patient care. Most mini- PACS systems give clinicians very limited image manipulation capabilities by only allowing window and level adjustments to the processed image. Image Suite also features Carestream Health ’s exceptional image processing software to further optimize image quality.

Image Suite will include a choice of DIRECTVIEW Classic, Point-of-Care 140 or Point-of-Care 360 CR readers and will be primarily sold and serviced by Carestream Health ’s channel partners. Image Suite will also support DICOM storage from other modalities, including ultrasound, MR, CT and exams from other vendors’ CR systems. Being able to integrate all types of imaging systems makes the Image Suite an attractive, scalable solution for general practitioners, orthopedists, podiatrists, chiropractors, other specialists and clinics. It is scheduled to be available worldwide in the second quarter of 2010.

The system features DICOM store/print/modality worklist and images can be stored on CDs and hard disk drives. Carestream Health ’s processing software streamlines workflow and provides automatic identification of body part/projection to eliminate manual data entry.

Source : Carestream Health