Toshiba Demonstrates Latest Nuclear Imaging Workstation for Increased Diagnostic Capabilities.

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TORONTO--(BW HealthWire)--June 25, 2001

Enhanced e.soft(TM) Provides Improved Efficiency and Expanded

Performance for Family of T.CAM(R) Gamma Cameras

Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. (TAMS) is demonstrating the latest software enhancements for e.soft(TM), the company's Windows NT-based workstation for its family of T.CAM(R) nuclear medicine gamma cameras, at the annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), June 24-27.

"Toshiba is committed to providing radiologists and oncologists, who use nuclear medicine to diagnose and treat patients, with efficient tools that are flexible and easy to use," said Daniel Davis, senior manager, nuclear medicine, Toshiba America Medical Systems. "The enhancements to e.soft break down the workflow barriers and allow clinicians to access information from anywhere, at anytime with more ease than ever before."

The e.soft(TM) Workstation is Toshiba's nuclear medicine offering for the company's T.CAM nuclear medicine gamma camera. Developed through a joint effort between Toshiba Corp. and Siemens Medical Systems, the workstation is designed for efficiency and high performance. Using automated workflows, the system tracks the entire nuclear medicine procedure from acquisition to final output. A multiple step procedure can now be set up on one icon for a click action.

The system is compatible with both Radiology Information Systems (RIS) and Hospital Information Systems (HIS). This capability helps clinicians to manage clinical images and patient data more easily and increases efficiency and throughput. The e.soft workstation includes the following application options:

-- Quantitative Gated SPECT (QGS) delivers automatic segmentation,
quantification, analysis and display of static and gated short axis myocardial
perfusion SPECT; 2D and 3D displays with interactive cine controls; and full
left ventricular volumetric analysis.

-- Quantitative Perfusion SPECT (QPS) offers automatic segmentation,
quantitation, analysis and display of static (non-gated) short axis myocardial
perfusion SPECT. Normal file comparison with stress, rest, reversibility, polar
maps and defect analysis is included.

-- Gated Blood Pool SPECT (QBS) provides automatic segmentation and
quantification of gated short axis blood pool (RBC) SPECT. Automatic
calculation of both right and left ventricular volumes and ejection fractions
with interactive 3D displays are also standard.

-- 4DMSPECT, developed by the University of Michigan, is a comprehensive
myocardial analysis package that can provide both the gated and the non-gated
stress-rest parameters with comparison to normal databases. The program
includes automatic left ventricular segmentation, 2-D and 3-D (gated) polar map
display, left ventricular volumetric analysis, normal file polar map
comparisons, normal file for profile attenuation corrected data and user
generated normal file file capability.

"The Toshiba T.CAM, combined with the latest e.soft software and GMS-5500A/PI processing station is designed to offer clinicians a more flexible, versatile system that will better meet their nuclear medicine imaging needs," said Davis. "Toshiba's products are designed to deliver superior clinical performance while helping to expand the types of cardiac and oncology studies available to clinicians."

The T.CAM family of gamma cameras includes the standard T.CAM for general nuclear medicine, T.CAM/CARDIO/V for dedicated cardiac imaging and T.CAM Duet, using a one-inch NaI crystal coincidence imaging gamma camera.

About Toshiba

With headquarters in Tustin, Calif., Toshiba America Medical Systems, the U.S. arm of Toshiba Corp.'s Medical Systems Company, markets, sells, distributes and services diagnostic imaging systems, coordinates clinical diagnostic imaging research and has responsibility for research and development for all modalities in the United States. One of Toshiba Corp.'s 10 in-house companies, the Medical Systems Company is a world leader in the development of medical imaging equipment, with a product line-up that includes CT, MRI, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, and both conventional and vascular X-ray systems. Toshiba Corp. is a major provider of electronics and energy systems and products and a $47 billion organization with more than 188,000 employees worldwide.

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