Philips Healthcare

Philips Healthcare (Booth 7713) is announcing the commercial release of the Elite Clinical Solution for breast imaging. It includes the MammoTrak dockable patient support, diagnostic and biopsy coils, and the DynaCAD Enterprise Solution, which allows biopsy planning performed on the MR console. The Elite Breast solution provides a comprehensive set of throughput enablers. These include access to in-depth trainings courses by industry experts and the SmartExam Breast tool, which delivers reproducible, high-quality images.

Philips also is showcasing the Panorama High Field Open system and featuring higher performance gradients to improve the imaging performance of the system. The higher performance gradients will be commercially available by mid 2009.

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