SEATTLE -- Eastman Kodak Company announced new features for its computed radiography system for radiation oncology and showcased its innovative image management and archiving solutions at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) annual meeting last week.

Kodak also announced fall availability for its KODAK Radiation Oncology Beam Dosimetry Package that will equip the KODAK 2000RT CR Plus System to allow physicists to perform a wide range of beam and IMRT QA procedures--along with the platform's existing ability to capture portal localization, verification and simulation images required for radiation therapy patients.

The 2000RT CR Plus, a computed radiography system designed specifically for radiation oncology professionals, offers the following new features as part of its latest software upgrade:

-\tDICOM RT Support allows the smooth transfer and exchange of information with oncology image management systems and facilitates communication with other DICOM-compatible planning systems and imaging modalities.
-\tAbility to import treatment planning system DRR images for easy side-by-side comparison with port images.
-\tRemote annotation allows oncologists to make comments at a remote workstation and save modified images to the database. Images cannot be duplicated since annotations can only be made in the "locked" mode.
-\tPowerful search capabilities facilitate the creation of a worklist to improve productivity at sites that do not have their own image management system.
-\tEnhanced security records all changes and provides a separate log in for each user.
-\tSupport for output of patient images and a DICOM viewer to CD/DVD media.
Efficient Image, Information Management

Kodak also showed its KODAK CARESTREAM Information Management Solutions that enable oncology treatment centers to store and manage patient information, treatment plans and images captured by a variety of different systems--all from a central database. These solutions equip users to improve productivity and efficiency while reducing overall costs associated with information storage and archive. Users can elect to store and archive information on-site or utilize a Kodak-hosted information management solution.

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