NovaRad's NovaPACS Latest Enhancement Supports PET/CT Fusion

American Fork, Utah March 29, 2010 - NovaRad's NovaPACS latest upgrade includes support for PET/CT Fusion. Radiologists are now able to view PET/ CT studies, within the PACS, enabling them to better deliver efficient health care with accurate results to patients while saving time and hardware costs.

NovaPACS PET-CT Fusion
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Now, NovaPACS users can send studies to the PACS and NovaPACS will then display those images in CT, PET and PET/CT-fused series. Each series can be individually windowed and leveled and manipulated series from within the same study. Radiologists can manipulate and work with any modality or combinations of modalities to more quickly and accurately make diagnoses for patients.

"Faster turn around time on the reports can significantly improve treatment outcomes, shorten treatment durations, increase accuracy of diagnosis and provide substantial cost savings," said Tyler Harris, NovaRad vice president of clinical solutions.

Additional enhancements in this latest version of NovaPACS enables immediate assigning of critical values to a given image, study or series. The markings within the image, series and/or study also contain contact information of how the referring physician or facility has been contacted. A report on the critical findings can then be run for compliance and for follow-up contact to the referring physician.

NovaPACS is NovaRad's complete, enterprise-level PACS offering fast image retrieval, full-feature viewer with an intuitive interface, and 7-year on-site archive with off site emergency back up. Full screen viewing, easy to use menus and mouse-based functions are available to help enhance efficiency and referring physicians have complete access to images and reports from any computer.

With more than 600 installations worldwide, NovaRad is a proven and trusted provider of turnkey radiology technology systems for hospitals, orthopedic clinics and cardiology clinics, radiology centers and imaging centers.

About NovaRad Corporation
For more than a decade, NovaRad, www.novapacs.com, has filled the niche of providing a full range of affordable PACS, RIS, DR and peripherals to hospitals, clinics and imaging centers. The privately owned company based in American Fork, Utah currently has installations of its products at more than 600 sites worldwide. NovaRad offers a subscription-pricing model that combines the department's image load with the number of radiology workstations required to determine a low up-front fee combined with a fixed recurring monthly fee.

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