A new, GE-customized CADstream application provides physicians with more flexibility to access images over multiple platforms (operator console, Advantage Workstation, or Linux PC). This new application, called CADStream HDx 4.1, launched at RSNA, will also include enhancements to MR biopsy guidance.

Breast Ultrasound


Ultrasound has become a standard and important tool in the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. GE and Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. announced at RSNA that they are entering into a collaborative sales/marketing agreement to help launch a new solution that could reduce the number of open surgical breast biopsies performed
each year. Of the 1.6 million women who will have breast biopsies this year, more than 500,000 will undergo the invasive, open surgical procedure.

Through their collaborative efforts, Ethicon Endo-Surgery and GE will offer compatible products that can operate together as part of an integrated biopsy system to help enable breast surgeons to provide a less invasive, more accurate method of diagnosing breast cancer compared to open surgical biopsy. The companies will promote two echnologies working in tandem: the Ethicon Endo-Surgery advanced Mammotome EX Biopsy System and the GE LOGIQ Book XP compact ultrasound system. When used together, these technologies give patients and surgeons immediate access to a highly accurate diagnostic procedure for patients undergoing breast biopsy.

GE is now delivering a new age of ultrasound technology called volume ultrasound by combining the industry's most advanced system platforms, (LOQIQ and Voluson) multi-dimensional image applications and new 4-D and Matrix array technologies. Volume ultrasound will allow physicians to explore patient images in any plane, reveal the smallest details and acquire and construct volumetric images in real-time with stunning clarity.


Breast Cancer Information Management

GE has also integrated a new digital mammography workflow module to its
Centricity PACS product that offers customers the ability to read
digital mammography images on their PACS workstation while providing
efficient access to historical multi-modality exams. These advanced
applications are aimed to facilitate the earliest detection of breast
cancer, giving a woman the best potential clinical outcome through early treatment.

Immediate access to current and historical patient information is critical in cancer care. Patient information systems allow physicians to have accurate and timely information about a patient at their fingertips, rather than waiting days or hours. GE Centricity is used in top cancer centers across the United States; this award-winning GE information system enables clinicians to electronically track and

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