Innovators team with vendors to broaden access to new tools

摘要

Advanced visualization is worming its way into PACS. Once-dedicated workstations are being democratized to support network access, thin-client servers gel with PACS, and native code embeds sophisticated postprocessing. The technology is no longer exclusively 2D.This computing evolution was reflected at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine exhibition in Seattle in May. Carestream displayed native 3D and productivity capabilities; Fovia touted an OEM strategy to bring its 3D horsepower to multiple brands of PACS; and Visage, TeraRecon, Agfa, and Siemens each presented varying degrees of thin-client and PACS-based 3D computing.