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Visit aycan at ECR 2014 in Vienna

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From 6th to 10th March 2014 the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), organized by the European Society of Radiology (ESR), will be held again in Vienna. Visitors are travelling from all around the world to visit Europe’s biggest medical imaging meeting with its accompanying exhibition, numerous lectures and seminars.

aycan will present its latest products such as the iPad App aycan mobile, the vendor-neutral DICOM PACS archive aycan store or the aycan OsiriX PRO workstation.

Also visitors can participate on-site in aycan’s competition and win an aycan OsiriX PRO software license (full version), incl. ayMobile plug-in & a free 1 year aycan mobile user account as first prize.

Professional medical imaging with aycan OsiriX PRO Oncology Workstation.

The turnkey workstation with FDA 510(k) approval, CE marking and full integration-service and customer support offers conventional, multi-slice and other image reading support. While aycan is providing its 64-bit DICOM PACS workstation in different package versions, users get to use a specially optimized workstation for specific areas, such as Oncology or Vascular Surgery. Each package version is characterized by certain plug-ins, which are precisely matched to the appropriate area.

Thus, with the aycan OsiriX PRO Vessel Analysis Workstation, aycan provides segmentation of arteries in CTA datasets as well as centerlines for vessel assessment. The aycan OsiriX PRO Oncology Workstation helps the user in doing evaluation according RECIST 1.1 guideline.

In addition to the booth, aycan will also participate in the Multimedia Classroom, which is offered for the first time at ECR. During the Multimedia Classroom the participants will learn to interpret cases of CT coronary angiography, CT colonography, as well as oncologic and emergency CT imaging on 30 to 50 workstations from different vendors.

Visit aycan at ECR 2014 in Vienna and experience PACS solutions from Würzburg live. To learn more about products from aycan visit www.aycan.com/ecr.


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Science oder Wissenschaft – Englisch oder Deutsch?

Beatrice Lugger

Wie wichtig ist es über Wissenschaft in der jeweiligen Landessprache zu kommunizieren? Diese Frage treibt den Biophysiker Ivan Fernando Gonzalez (@gonzalezivanf ) schon seit einiger Zeit um. Für das anstehende Großtreffen der wissenschaftlichen Onlinegemeinde, ScienceOnline14, in Durham Ende Februar hat er die Session ScioLang rund um sein Herzensthema geplant und inzwischen viele Mitstreiter um sich geschart. Ivan umreißt es auf Englisch (sic!) so: „English is the “lingua franca” of science, and that carries a lot of benefits, but also carries… weiter

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aycan presenting at Apple's Spotlight event during RSNA

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aycan, a recognized worldwide leader in medical imaging, announced today that it will be presenting during the Apple Spotlight event held in conjunction with RSNA. aycan was invited to demonstrate how to integrate the iPad and Mac into a radiology workflow to achieve improved productivity at minimal cost.  During the demonstration they’ll use and discuss their related products, including its post processing workstation aycan OsiriX PRO.  

aycan OsiriX PRO’s complete, open plug-in architecture allows for easy expansion of the workstation’s capabilities to address specific needs.  “We designed OsiriX PRO to be an open platform for other medical technology companies with equal quality standards and regulatory compliancy, to integrate their software features (Plug-ins) into our workstations. said Frank Burkhardt, aycan Director, North & Latin American Operations. “With OsiriX PRO’s open platform concept, we can quickly add value in any clinical workflows to support specific applications such as Mammography.”  
Currently, aycan offers specialty workstations for Mammography, Oncology, and Vessel Analysis, which have been developed with medical technology partners. All specialty workstations offer excellent image-loading times and intuitive-user interfaces.  

During the presentation, aycan will also feature its FDA-cleared aycan mobile ipad App for Teleradiology, which is designed for easy, fast, and secure viewing and transfer of DICOM images with an iPad.        

aycan OsiriX PRO, featuring speciality workstations such as Mammography, Oncology, and Vessel Analysis  

aycan OsiriX PRO is a 64-bit fast, Mac-based, vendor-neutral, highly functional advanced image-processing tool and DICOM PACS workstation for conventional, multi-slice and other image reading. Based on the open source project OsiriX, aycan’s version is turnkey with FDA 510 (k) clearance, CE Marking, and full integration-service and customer support. Several features/plug-ins have been added to OsiriX PRO significantly expanding its functionality. Featured plug-ins at this year’s RSNA will include the new aycan mobile iPad app, FusionSync, Advanced Hanging Protocols, Vessel Analysis,  IB-Neuro, 4-D ROI Statistics, and Ejection Fraction. 

Weblinks:
aycan OsiriX PRO
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aycan mobile on stage at AppCircus on Health with Medica

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aycan submitted it’s iPad app aycan mobile to the upcoming AppCircus event at Medica 2013. AppCircus is open and free to developers, startups and any organization with apps on any platform, giving a great chance to present their apps live on stage.

aycan mobile is an iPad app to display medical images. It has received FDA clearance and CE label as a medical device.

Update: aycan mobile has been selected to present live on stage, together with 9 other presenters.

When: 22. Nov. 2013 3:00pm
Where: Media Hall 15, Düsseldorf, Germany

Medica is the world‘s largest medical instrumentation trade fair located in Düsseldorf, Germany. Every year, more than 130,000 decision makers, experts and trade visitors make Medica their forum to learn about and BUY the latest in medical technology.
Weblinks:
AppCircus on Health with Medica
aycan mobile at AppCircus

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Visit aycan at TurkRad 2013

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The 34th Turkish Congress of Radiology will be held from 6th to 10th November 2013 at the Maritim Pine Beach Hotel in Antalya. Several meetings, workshops and presentations of the technological advancements of the future of radiology are to be expected.

aycan will be at the congress to promote its products, especially its mobile PACS viewer aycan mobile. With aycan mobile’s full range of features and intuitive interface, combined with Apples iPad, the iPad app is an ideal solution for Teleradiology.

DICOM images can be transferred easily, fast and especially secure from hospitals and imaging centers to on-call and other radiologists with an iPad.
Some of aycan mobiles key features are:

  • Automatic 256-bit AES encryption
  • Password protection
  • Patient anonymization
  • Display and synchronization of two image series
  • Lossless JPEG2000 compression

In addition to aycan mobile, aycan is presenting its vendor neutral DICOM PACS archive aycan store, a cost effective and powerful DICOM archive, which seamlessly integrates with RIS and other patient management systems, as well as its Mac-based multi-modality workstation for post-processing and primary diagnosis, aycan OsiriX PRO – with FDA 510(k) clearance and CE-label.

Meet aycan at TurkRad 2013 to discover its latest products or visit www.aycan.com and find out more about aycan.

About aycan

With a focus on vendor neutral integration and service, aycan is a worldwide provider of solutions for archiving, viewing, and printing medical images and information that improve workflow efficiency and drive down costs.  aycan is ISO 13485 certified and supports customers worldwide with European headquarters in Würzburg, Germany, and U.S. headquarters in Rochester, New York. The company is privately held.

Weblinks:
Mobile PACS Viewer aycan mobile
DICOM PACS archive aycan store
Post-Processing Workstation aycan OsiriX PRO
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[eBook] Tania Singer: Compassion – Bridging Practice and Science

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“What is the difference between empathy and compassion? Is it possible to train compassion? Can it be measured? How useful is compassion training in schools, clinical settings, and end-of-life care? Can the brain be transformed through mental training?” This free eBook has just been released by Tania Singer, Director of the Department of Social Neuroscience […]

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ECR2 2013 Workstation Face-Off: Mission accomplished

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This years Workstation Face-Off at ECR 2013 has been held in Vienna at March 8.
Two challenging cases demanded a high level of post processing skills from the presenters and the workstations.

Session Chairman Prof. Anno Graser and his Co-Chairmen Dres. D’Anastsi and Schwarz (all University Hospital Munich) introduced the cases to the audience and collected the results.

The cases reflected daily radiological challenges and are really related to practical clinical workflows.

Results Case 1 – Stenosis

Case 1 was a cardiac case involving CTA of the coronary arteries and functional MRI with rest and stress perfusion imaging. This case had to be performed in 6 minutes. All vendors were able to present the cases within the given timeframe. One challenge were the major stenosis of the RCA.


Results Case 2 – Volumetric time response

The second case has been an oncological patient with a metastasised malignant melanoma. Tasks included detection of lung nodules with CAD and segmentation of two lesions over time assessing volumetric and RECIST response. 
Vital Images, Terarecon and aycan were able to perform the case within the given time of 4 minutes. aycan finished it already after 3 minutes. Siemens and GE ran out of time. Vital Images and aycan were the only vendors who could show a comprehensive RECIST and volumetric report, while the others had the values scattered all over the software. aycan did not show a CAD lung nodule detection module.

It’s remarkable that except aycan all other vendors had preprocessed data of both cases. 

After the presentations the results were presented to the audience in a graphical way (see above). Case one showed the degree of stenosis of the LCX. Case two was presented by the volumetric progression over time. The results are in a close proximity and show the value of quantitive imaging (aycan’s results are yellow).

The Workstation Face-off is a very good presentation to present the capabilities of vendor software solutions. We think, that aycan OsiriX PRO was able to solve the challenging cases with easy workflows and to provide customized reporting support for the results. If you consider the price of the solution, compared to major vendors, the success at this years Workstation Face-Off is even much more impressive.

Credits go to the CMIV Lab at Linköping University for supporting us with the algorithms for the vascular part and Chimaera GmbH, Erlangen for the registration, segmentation and volumetric analysis. And of course to the OsiriX group.

If you you want to learn more how aycan OsiriX PRO can help you with Medical Image Postprocessing please contact us at  sales@aycan.de

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aycan @ ECR 2013

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So much could change in Vienna …


Not even 2 weeks until ECR 2013 – time to introduce some new features / products which will be shown there:


ECR 2013 logo and aycan booth #621New features of aycan OsiriX PRO:
» Workflow improvements:
– save measurements and post-processing results to PACS automatically
– bookmark measurements for faster access
– faster window tiling with toolbar icon
– display only images of one patient (configurable)
» 3D CPR:
– enlarge orthograde views
– import/export of centerlines
» aycan mobile plug-in: 
– improvement of download status
– send case direct to a buddy
– automatic delete after smart push
» ISLink plug-in: added support for iSoft RIS 
» French GUI and manual
New products:









» aycan OsiriX PRO:
– ayReport plug-in for automatic transmission of measurements
   to customizable reports

– FusionSync plug-in for multi-modal image fusion and
   automatic registration 
» aycan store:
– aycan web HTML5 DICOM Viewer

Face-Off:
Coordinator/Chairman:
PD Dr. A. Graser, Munich

See how aycan OsiriX PRO performs in a simulated clinical scenario against other vendors.

6th Post-processing Face-Off with OsiriX PRO - Friday, March 8, 8:30 – 10:00, Room B This year, one of the cases is a cardiac case involving CTA of the coronary arteries and functional MRI with rest and stress perfusion imaging.

The second case will be an
oncology patient with a metastasised malignant melanoma. Tasks will include detection of lung nodules with CAD and segmentation of lesions   over time assessing response. 


We cordially invite you to attend this exciting ‘tournament’ of post-processing.


Please visit us on our booth #621 (Gallery, First Level) for more information.