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Lisa Chamoff, Contributing Reporter | November 21, 2017
From the November 2017 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
"Many physical factors affect the properties of scatter: energy spectrum of the beam; thickness/size of the object and collimation. Using empirical modeling, SmartGrid can accommodate these factors through estimation of the algorithm parameters which are tuned to approximate anti-scatter grid visual performance.”
Fujifilm's Dynamic Visualization II
image processing software
Fujifilm
Fujifilm recently released its Dynamic Visualization II image processing software, a new generation that uses artificial intelligence to adjust image quality based on structural recognition
“The previous generation of Dynamic Visualization dynamically enhanced various areas of the image for contrast adjustment,” says Rob Fabrizio, director of marketing and product development for digital X-ray at FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. “It didn’t have the automatic recognition in terms of structural densities, the shape and characteristic of bones and orthopedic hardware. It’s really a dramatic difference when you see the before and after images, especially on low-penetration and low-dose X-rays.”
Dynamic Visualization II is available for Fujifilm’s mini portable X-ray system and the company will be rolling it out for its FDR Go mobile and digital radiography rooms and retrofits.
“There’s a lot of intelligence built into it from our years of digital medical image processing experience,” Fabrizio says. “Orthopedic hardware won’t have a halo effect around the edges. All areas will be enhanced regardless of varying densities.”
GE Healthcare's Precision 600FP premium flat-panel digital fluoroscopy system
GE Healthcare
Since RSNA last year, GE Healthcare has launched multiple new offerings.
“All of them are aimed at helping our customers make the first image count,” says Gokhan Gunes, X-ray marketing director for GE Healthcare.
The company's new X-ray Quality Application features Repeat Reject Analytics and is part of the Applied Intelligence platform (it was in beta at RSNA 2016). It connects to compatible new and legacy X-ray systems, and uses web-based dashboards to manage quality assurance, helping customers uncover the root causes of rejected X-rays so the department can deploy improvements.
