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news.Pacsgear, a provider of document and multimedia connectivity solutions for medical image management and electronic health record systems, has launched PacsSCAN Film for mammography, an application specifically designed for digitizing film-based mammography images.
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According to the company, the product measurably improves radiologists’s reading times by employing the Dicom Digital Mammography standard. This standard enables the correct sequencing of scanned images on digital mammography workstations.
The PacsSCAN Film for mammographySystem scans plain film mammograms and allows side-by-side comparison with digital mammography images. It can be configured to display scanned images at the same resolution as their digital counterparts. Throughput is further enhanced with Pacsgear’s patent-pending batch scanning technology, the company said.
Brian Cavanaugh, president of Pacsgear, said: “Improving reading efficiency is a key issue in women’s imaging, and PacsSCAN Film for mammographydelivers. This solution is for mammography centers who want uncompromised image quality at a reasonable price.”