From the October 2021 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine


CurveBeam
In November of last year, CurveBeam received FDA clearance for its HiRise, a weight-bearing CT scanner that can scan the entire lower extremities, including the hips and pelvis, in a standing position.

There have been several installations of the HiRise around the country, said Vinti Singh, director of marketing for CurveBeam.


“We’re encouraged by how quickly it’s been adopted,” Singh said.

The company is looking to expand clearance beyond the hip and pelvis to enable weight-bearing scans of the lumbar spine and sacrum.

CurveBeam is also developing a table for the HiRise so clinicians can also scan the whole body with the exception of shoulders, depending on patient size, in the supine position, and compare weight-bearing and non-weight-bearing imaging.

Also over the last year, CurveBeam launched its CubeVue Autometrics at a couple of beta sites. The web-based platform uses AI to automatically segment foot and ankle data sets and take measurements.

“It can take a full day to manually segment a weight-bearing CT data set,” Singh said.

Earlier this year, the company announced the launch of CurveBeam Cloud, a storage and backup solution that it says will simplify DICOM dataset storage and transport.

“The long-term vision of CurveBeam Cloud is that it will integrate with the Autometrics platform or [platforms from] other vendors to store large files,” Singh said. “Often what’s sent to PACS is a scaled-down version. So with CurveBeam Cloud, wherever you are you can view a high-res image.”

FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation
FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. and FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation (formerly Hitachi Healthcare Americas) recently announced that the two companies have merged and are operating under the name FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation.

“The overall portfolio combination of the Scenaria View, Supria True 64, Supria and the Persona CT [presents] offerings from the premium to value customer which is such a great complement to what we already have,” said Rick Banner, senior director of marketing for FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation.

Referring to Fujifilm’s Persona CT system, Banner said, “You’re going to continue to see a lot of new product offerings to expand our robust platform.”

The company is focused on lowering radiation dose and on bariatric imaging capabilities.

For the Persona CT, the company is planning to add additional oncology features tied to 4D gating technology, along with integration with Varian’s Real-time Position Management (RPM) and Respiratory Gating for Scanners (RGSC). Varian uses an infrared camera on its linear accelerator to monitor and map the motion of breathing.

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