San Mateo, CA - TeraRecon, Inc., a leader in advanced image-processing technology and 3D visualization solutions, has announced the release of new innovations in its flagship Aquarius iNtuition™ platform, to be showcased at the upcoming American College of Cardiology (ACC) Annual Meeting, to be held at McCormick Place, Chicago, from March 29th to April 1st 2008.

At ACC 2008, the global cardiology community will meet to present and discuss new innovations in cardiac care, including the incorporation of CT imaging into their diagnosis and treatment protocols. CT technology has made possible a wide range of new imaging procedures that offer a less-invasive and more comprehensive alternative to conventional techniques such as catheter angiography. In the process, these procedures generate huge volumes of images which have to be managed and manipulated as a part of the diagnostic interpretation process. TeraRecon solutions provide the means to support such interpretation and the subsequent communication with surgeons and interventionalists, by providing full cardiac workstation capabilities available on ordinary PC's anywhere in the enterprise. The complete suite of capabilities that are "available anywhere" includes calcium scoring, advanced vessel analysis, functional assessment, plaque analysis, EP planning and clinical collaboration capabilities.

Aquarius iNtuition provides a comprehensive suite of cardiac CT tools all through a thin-client interface called Aquarius iNtuition which can be deployed and operated on any PC throughout the healthcare enterprise. The Aquarius iNtuition Client is powered by a central AquariusNET™ server which is capable of managing over 27,000 CT slices in a single server, with multiple-server configurations readily available. This uniquely powerful architecture allows TeraRecon to deliver a cardiac CT interpretation and distribution system that integrates seamlessly with cardiology PACS solutions, while delivering powerful decision support through automated preprocessing, advanced interpretation tools for the diagnosing physician, and simple yet rich and interactive web-based distribution tools for disseminating the results of interpretation efficiently to their intended recipient.
TeraRecon's automated preprocessing system, AquariusAPS, automatically identifies and labels cardiac anatomy, and then performs automatic segmentation and centerline extraction, to prepare the examination for the speediest diagnostic interpretation.

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