Multi-modality Breast Imaging Workshop

The Multi-modality Breast Imaging Workshop will feature workstations from various exhibitors whose viewing application and monitors have received 510K FDA approval for marketing. The workshop will be located in private reading areas away from the general exhibit area. Applications Specialists from each company will be available for technical assistance.

Each participant should evaluate the workstations for the following features:

  • Intuitiveness of graphical user interface (GUI)
  • Functionality of worklist
  • Workflow to view mammograms
    Ability to process studies from various vendors' mammography systems
  • Hanging protocols
  • Number of clicks
  • Integration with reporting and communication applications
  • Ability to view modalities other than digital mammography such as MR, US, PET/CT, nuclear medicine studies, projection radiographs, CT and 3D capability

BRIT Mammo Viewing

Participants must register for this workshop At the Register Desk. Each workshop will be limited to a single participant or institution and will last a maximum of 30 minutes. The workshops will be held: Sunday, February 3, 2008: 7:30am-6:00pm
Monday, February 4, 2008: 7:30am-5:00pm
Tuesday, February 5, 2008: 7:30am-2:30pm

The following companies will be participating in the Multi-modality Breast Imaging Workshop:

BRIT Systems, Inc. – Custom PACS, RIS and Teleradiology Solutions. BRIT Systems has nearly 15 years of experience in the management, workflow planning and transfer of large digital images. Today, we’re applying this expertise to FFDM and the 5 MP display panels of the BRIT Vision Multi-Modality workstation. Our breast imaging multi-modality workstation provides industry-leading, image loading performance, as well as “efficiency tools” designed to make the image manipulation and review process as responsive as the radiologist, including:

  • Sequential hanging protocols driven by single key stroke that invoke smart pans, customized image sequence review, and an automatic “unseen view” protocol, all monitored by a thumb nail check marker to ensure complete review of a case.
  • Single mouse click to call comparison exam and run a sequential hanging protocol across two studies.
  • Single mouse click to call studies from different modalities such as breast MRI or ultrasound.  Each tool bar is modality specific, further contributing to the system’s effectiveness and responsiveness.

BRIT Systems has extensive system integration experience and offers a vast array of solutions, including administrative management and reporting tools to fulfill the image management requirements of women centers, hospitals and group practices.

Philips Medical Systems — Philips iSite PACS offers workflow advantages and reading tools to help streamline the transition to digital mammography. iSite PACS can help enhance productivity and reduce costs, with the following benefits:

  • Enhance workflow by interfacing with ordering systems, reporting systems, and additional workflow tools for a best-of-breed solution.
  • Improve patient care by providing point-of-care access to physicians throughout the enterprise.
  • Improve productivity with a single workstation platform and the ability to review multiple modalities simultaneously: digital mammography, MRI, ultrasound, and PET.
  • Reduce costs by leveraging existing investments in PACS (including archives and workstations).

Display tools

  • Mammography CAD – interactive display/hide of Mammography CAD Structured Reports results from Hologic (R2) and iCAD
  • Step zoom – step sequentially through images at pixel-to-pixel zoom.
  • True size – automatically scale images so the selected anatomy appears on the monitor scaled to actual size.
  • Mirrored and non-mirrored panning – users can link any series and pan them simultaneously in a mirrored or non-mirrored orientation.

Productivity tools

  • Roaming magnification glass – quickly zoom in on a small portion of the image with configurable magnification settings in User Preferences.
  • Keyboard hot keys – configurable shortcuts are provided to improve workflow. These are saved as preferences in the user profile and are available on workstations across the system.
  • Keypad support – all keyboard short cuts can be programmed on commercially available keypads based on user preferences.


Sectra North America, Inc. — Sectra is one of today's leading providers of breast imaging PACS and softcopy workstation solutions. We know that it is all about efficient handling of medical images, medical records, data and practice workflow. Our core business is delivering top-of-the-line, high-availability, robust breast imaging PACS and softcopy workstation solutions. With over 900 Enterprise Edition Radiology and Breast PACS systems installed globally, Sectra can offer our customers unsurpassed Information Technology, professional services, and workflow planning. We believe in a strong local presence with a global perspective. Sectra provides breast imaging solutions that simplify every day life for our customers and we take pride in involving users in our development process. Sectra Breast Imaging solutions are cost effective and scalable.

Carestream Health — Carestream Health's multi-modality breast imaging workstation provides highly efficient diagnostic review of all digital mammography exams as well as general radiography studies. The workstation features automatic mammography image detection, automatic chest wall justification, skin line detection, quadrant zoom, and enhanced display of extended annotations to enhance radiologists' efficiency. Configurable and intelligent display protocols deliver added convenience and productivity.