TeraRecon Wins ECR "Workstation Face-Off” Using Client Server Technology

TeraRecon, Inc. (San Mateo, CA, USA) is a developer of image processing technologies and three-dimensional (3D) visualization systems. TeraRecon was the only company to achieve "Workstation Face-off” tasks using client-server technology at the 2008 European Congress of Radiology (ECR), held in Vienna, Austria, in March 2008, as well as the only one to demonstrate a technology for enterprise-friendly, browser-based, wide distribution of interactive 3D results.

The workstation face-off challenged all major vendors of advanced 3D image processing technologies to demonstrate quantitative analysis and interpretation on two challenging clinical cases, including a cardiac computed tomography (CT) examination and a CT colon examination, within specific time limits. Operating Aquarius iNtuition for TeraRecon, Dr. Christopher Herzog, chief of radiology at the Red Cross Clinic (Munich, Germany), demonstrated consistent measurements leading to the same clinical outcome as all other vendors' products except one, and was the only face-off participant to utilize thin-client advanced visualization technology for the challenge. TeraRecon's evaluation of the CT Colon examination also featured the fewest number of false-positive findings related to automatic detection.

All other participants used the stand-alone, thick-client workstations provided with the major CT modalities available for purchase today, while TeraRecon demonstrated its iNtuitive full cardiac workflow using the new Aquarius iNtuition client software to complete all tasks in less than three-quarters of the available time, allowing demonstration of delivery of the results as an interactive, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act- (HIPAA)-compliant, browser-based package utilizing only JavaScript technology, and therefore, deliverable to a very wide number of recipients in the healthcare enterprise without requiring any administrative privileges on the client side to access this review tool. This ability to provide such an interactive 3D package with key findings and relevant images is unique to TeraRecon and received much interest at the ECR meeting.

"It is an indication that advanced visualization has truly come of age, since it is no longer enough simply to provide rapid and accurate interpretation tools for large multi-slice MDCT examinations,” said Robert Taylor, Ph.D, president and chief operating officer of TeraRecon. "Today, it is really necessary to provide ubiquitous access to the interpretation tools without any compromise on performance or functionality, and to further provide viable technologies to distribute the results of such interpretation to the downstream users of CT technology--referring physicians, surgeons, and ultimately, the patients themselves in the context of a consultation with their physician. The Aquarius iNtuition client-server technology demonstrated so effectively at the ECR face-off yesterday clearly sets TeraRecon apart from the competition both in the company's commitment to enterprise-wide solutions for advanced visualization, and the maturity and capability of the company's technology. This meeting has also clearly demonstrated the relevance of this interpretation paradigm in the context of European radiology, and we look forward to continuing development of these technologies as they are adopted more widely in European healthcare institutions and beyond.”

TeraRecon provides advanced imaging systems for medical and other visualization applications based on its unique and patented image processing technologies. The company has developed a unique family of powerful processors that are used in its real-time, enterprise-wide image processing systems and real-time 3D volume-rendering hardware engines.


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