Product Briefs
June 4, 1999 2 minutes read
Product Briefs
• Innovative Medical Services (El Cajon, CA) has introduced the pager-sized ScanMaster as a plug-in enhancement to its Fillmaster 1000e computerized pharmaceutical water dispenser. Users scan a prescription’s NDC bar code and the Fillmaster 1000e displays the product name and required water quantity. The prescription is then dispensed with a simple button touch. The ScanMaster’s database contains proprietary and generic oral drug types from various manufacturers.
• Lexicon Genetics (The Woodlands, TX) has launched a subscription Internet program that allows commercial and academic institutions to access OmniBank, the company’s genomics library and database. The site includes information on 50,000 mouse clones, a collection of knockout mouse embryonic stem cells and gene sequence information that can provide predictive information on the action of potential therapeutic drug candidates and the validity of their targets.
• New Medicine (Lake Forest, CA) has updated its web site to include a demonstration of its oncology knowledgeBase, a CD-ROM resource developed for executives working in the oncology field. The site includes a database with more than 1,300 records of drugs in development, drug targets, or enabling technologies for treating cancer and complications associated with the disease.
• Planar Systems (Beaverton, Oregon) has released the 12.1-inch LC800.600.31-121 model active-matrix, liquid-crystal, flat-panel display in SVGA color with integrated touchscreen for embedded display systems in applications such as patient monitoring, anesthesia, blood analysis, imaging, arthroscopic surgery and cardiology. The LC-121 has a wide viewing angle of 140 degrees horizontally and 110 degrees vertically and is part of Planar's line of extended-performance color products suited to demanding medical and other applications. The product’s field-replaceable backlight generates up to 1,000 units of brightness, with a circuit that assures consistent luminance over product life. Its contrast ratio tops 200:1 in a darkroom environment and 50:1 in daylight conditions.
• Siemens Medical Systems (Iselin, NJ) has reported that its 3DVirtuoso workstation can now reconstruct Digital Subtraction Angiography images in three dimensions, allowing physicians to view vascular structures in depth from any angle. Originally designed to allow instant access to CT and MR data in three dimensions, the 3DVirtuoso workstation can now automatically transform conventional X-ray images acquired by Siemens’ Multistar Plus, Angiostar Plus and Neurostar Plus systems, converting them into 3-D images in approximately five minutes. The 3DVirtuoso workstation displays vascular structures as a 3-D volume in real time, eliminating the need to acquire a multiple series of two-dimensional images and providing improved applications flexibility.
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