Vital releases Vitrea Enterprise Suite 6.1

Vital, a Toshiba Medical Systems Group Company, has released Vitrea Enterprise Suite Version 6.1.

Version 6.1 includes automated bone removal and enhanced vessel grow functions for head and neck studies, multi-volume fusion support for 4D brain perfusion, body perfusion and myocardial perfusion enhancements such as multi-volume fusion of color maps and coronary arteries.

The 4D brain perfusion, body perfusion and myocardial perfusion enhancements are available only outside the U.S. and only with Vitrea fX, the Minneapolis-based provider of advanced visualization and analysis systems stated.

Version 6.1 delivers workflow capabilities through expanded integrations with Mirada’s Oncology Fusion and iCAD and Medicsight’s CT Colon CAD applications, a new application launcher for PACS, a usage reporting function and a web-based centralized logging tool.

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