The company also plans to unveil digital detectors for the modular configurations of the Diacam and MultiSPECT products. Its features include knowledge-based boundary detection and teleconferencing.Ī modular product line is not all Siemens has up its corporate sleeve in nuclear medicine. Phoenix will complement Icon workstations and is also DICOM 3.0-compatible. Siemens will also debut Phoenix, a new Unix-based image processing workstation that fits the vendor's modular marketing approach. Gamma cameras will continue to be offered in an integrated configuration with the vendor's Macintosh-based Icon workstation. The only computer power accompanying gamma cameras bought individually will be supplied by the new Unix-based Siemens nuclear acquisition controller (SNAC). Gamma cameras purchased without computers will be compatible with nuclear medicine networks that use the DICOM 3.0 standard and thus can communicate with any vendor's workstation, Lytle said. A modularized version of the single-head Diacam and dual-head MultiSPECT 2 should be shipping by the end of March, with a modular MultiSPECT 3 available next summer. Siemens is making the move in an effort to reduce costs and improve flexibility for customers, according to Bob Lytle, vice president of marketing for Siemens Nuclear Medicine Group in Hoffman Estates, IL. In nuclear medicine, Siemens will soon implement a new modular strategy that allows customers to buy gamma cameras separately from image processing computers.
The market depth of Siemens Medical Systems is evidencedby the number of new systems the vendor will unveil in modalities from nuclear medicine to CT to ultrasound.
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