Vital Images Introduces ViTALConnect(R)
Vital Images, Inc. (Nasdaq: VTAL), an advanced medical imaging software company, today introduced ViTALConnect(R), a medical diagnostic software tool that allows physicians to use PCs or notebook computers to access 2D, 3D and 4D advanced visualization from a Web-enabled thin-client server. With ViTALConnect, users can process, analyze, review and distribute multi-dimensional medical images securely over the Internet. ViTALConnect is the company’s first Web-enabled offering which has been adapted from a product developed by HInnovation, a company Vital Images acquired in February 2004. Vital Images will introduce the new product at the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR) 2004 Annual Meeting in Vancouver May 20-23.
“ViTALConnect opens an exciting new market for the company and fits our strategy to provide more physicians with greater access to advanced visualization,” said Jay D. Miller, Vital Images president and chief executive officer. “When Vital Images acquired HInnovation, our first priority was to ‘vitalize’ their product and introduce a Web-based visualization product. Many physicians outside radiology, including surgeons and other referring physicians, depend on advanced visualization to plan surgeries and other therapies. For them, accessibility, whenever and wherever they need it, is a more important attribute than having every advanced analysis feature. We are also excited about the collaboration mode within ViTALConnect, which enables multiple physicians in different locations to confer while interacting with the same images in real time.”
ViTALConnect can analyze datasets from computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR) and positron emission tomography (PET) scanners, as well as a variety of other modalities. The software enables users to manipulate, measure, rotate and segment images and turns everyday PCs into diagnostic workstations. An advanced vessel analysis option aids clinicians in the study of blood vessel and circulatory anatomy and in planning and monitoring vascular therapies. Cardiac images composed of multiple phases can be viewed over time in 4D, creating a beating heart in time-series coronary studies. In addition, ViTALConnect software can fuse images from two different scanning modalities (such as PET/CT) at the same time, to give clinicians richer diagnostic information.
About Vital Images
Vital Images is a leading provider of advanced visualization software for use in disease screening applications, clinical diagnosis and therapy planning. The company’s technology utilizes high-speed volume visualization and analysis, as well as network communications based on DICOM and Internet protocols. Vital Images cost effectively brings 3D visualization and analysis into the day-to-day practice of medicine. Press releases, examples of 3D medical imaging and other corporate information are available on Vital Images’ Web site at http://www.vitalimages.com .
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