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 Welcome indeed! RSNA, just like I pictured it.
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 McCormick Center Grand Concourse never fails to impress.
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 Good to know.
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 The show is smaller this year, but not small; as always the sea of booths is amazing.
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 GE has a smaller presence, but not small; they still have a city-block-sized booth. This year their theme is "healthy imagination".
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 Toshiba's presence is as large as ever.
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 ... exhibit booths stretch off into the distance ...
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 ... in every direction ...
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 A meeting with Stephen Willaert of Barco. They use Aperio's ImageScope viewer to demonstrate their 3840 x 2400 pixel 800 lumen 16-bit color 30" display. Cool!
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 I like this Hologic navigation pad. Something like this dedicated to digital pathology reviewing would be great.
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 Okay, time for a walk around the hall!
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 GE Healthcare - here we go...
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 Very cool projection screen. The display technology for exhibits keeps getting better.
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 If this RSNA had a theme, ''women's healthcare'' was it. Featured everywhere...
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 GE is definitely in the imaging hardware business. Note FDA 510(k) pending sign.
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 Inside GE's innovation pavilion. Omnyx were exhibiting their digital pathology system here. I managed to get myself kicked out :)
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 Check out this display. Amazing. Would be great for reviewing slides!
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 Healthcare IT is an increasingly big emphasis for GE
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 Hitachi has some amazing MRI machines.
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 Invivo, another MRI vendor. I like their ''private'' meeting room.
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 Nuance - a speech-to-text company. A few too many concurrent messages in this display, I think.
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 Bracco had a huge booth. Among other things, have software for *improving* image quality.
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 Vital Images - 3D workstations. Had a nice meeting with them, they're expanding into other 'ologies' and have a nice 3rd party API.
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 Hitachi's presence was scaled back this year. Note empty carpet areas.
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 IHE is an initative sponsored by NEMA (the DICOM people) to demonstrate inter-operabilty between vendors.
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 Thinking Systems - CAD solutions (pattern recognition). I love the 256 processor activity map (displayed between the people in the foreground).
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 As usual remote MRI trucks on display, but this year a focus on breast cancer.
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 Konica Minolta had their usual array of amazing digital radiology machines.
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 Varian - emphasis on software solutions for *Oncologists*
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 One of the more interesting and different booth designs...
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 NightHawk - outsourced radiology services - their presence has expanded
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 NightRays - lots of other companies are in the ''Nighthawk'' business now also.
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 Imaging on call - customized teleradiology (aka outsourced :)
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 Fuji has had the same booth for years, but still big and impressive.
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 These photomultiplier tubes from a Chinese company are like fine sculpture. Also would make a great chess set :)
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 The huge Toshiba booth was packed. Now featuring women's health prominently.
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 Toshiba's industrial design is awesome!
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 biospace - X-Ray machines you can stand in! Whole body images, cool.
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 DR Systems - a San Diego -based PACS company, we might work together...
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 Merge Healthcare - a company or an imperative? Huge presence as always...
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 Quantum digital radiology systems - note emphasis on 'made in U.S.A.'...
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 Cerner has a huge presence, primarily featuring HIS and RIS solutions.
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 Sentinelle featured a lot of pink-colored devices, saw that a lot...
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 Pink was definitely in vogue at this show, even pharmas like Bayer got into it.
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 Shimadzu's mobile digital X-ray machine, compact and cool.
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 Medrad is a PACS company moving into EHR.
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 Brit Systems - best penguins at the show :)
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 Digrad makes 'test phantoms'; targets used for calibrating digital radiology systems. Perhaps there will be 'test phantoms' for digital pathology too some day...
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 Bard - handheld breast core biopsy devices. These are used to create the needles analyzed by our customers.
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 Carestream had a strong entry into the 'lifelike display' sweepstakes, wow. 32 monitors stitched together.
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 Imris systems for neurosurgery - imaging and surgery on one table.
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 TeraRecon sells systems which manage radiology imaging workflow.
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 An increasing number of Asian firms exhibit at RSNA, including many from Korea...
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 Canon had their usual large presence; they make components for other vendors.
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 Philips had a HUGE exhibit area, with lots of cool 9-panel displays.
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 Philips' industrial design is pretty cool. Note new message: ''people focused healthcare''.
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 Philips had an interesting ''workflow pavilion'' with maps showing how their products integrate. Nicely done.
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 SonoScape - a Chinese ultrasound vendor.
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 Amicas is a leading EHR vendor; always like this poster at their booth...
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 The Agfa city. They'll take you there (wherever 'there' is :) ...
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 ... especially if 'there' is image-enabled EHR. They need Aperio for digital pathology :)
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 McKesson had a somewhat scaled back presence, booth was full of people. Interesting new tagline: 'take financial control'.
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 Sony has radiology solutions, and entered the 'huge lifelike display' contest with a strong entry...
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 Virtual Radiologic's teleradiology booth seemed scaled back from previous years.
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 Dalsa - Camera vendor (!) and also make digital X-ray panels.
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 Time to cross the bridge to the Lakeside Plaza... no shortage of attendees.
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 ... keep going straight through the RSNA administrative booths ...
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 ... and there's Lake Michigan! Calm and clear today.
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 This year the Lakeside Center had exhibitors also, instead of a big CME area.
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 The winner, largest display - Siemens. Their huge booth had a huge monitor running from one end...
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 ... to the other.
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 Siemens tagline: 'images, my way.'
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 Covidien is one of the leaders in FNA equipment.
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 Sectra - another company focused on women's health.
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 The inner guts of an MRI - very cool. The rollers have to conduct power into the rotating center.
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 Quest International - support for imaging monitors. And they have a pretty big one of their own!
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 Hologic turned pink for the show as well...
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 ... they seem to be marketing to patients as well as to hospitals.
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 A sobering reminder of what RSNA is all about.
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 Always the coolest part of visiting McCormick Center - the programmed water fountains :)
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 And the coolest part of attending RSNA in Chicago is always... Michigan Avenue, dressed for Christmas!
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