Thinking Systems' PACS gets smarter

Thinking Systems is at SCAR highlighting the new diagnostic tools that have been integrated in its multimodality PACS workstation. The company added OrthoView's Orthopedic digital imaging system that offers pre-operative planning and templating for knew, hips and other joints. Thinking Systems also added a volume-rendering tool that reconstructs multi-slice data on the fly.

Thinking Systems PACS supports a range of modalities, including CT, MR, nuclear medicine, nuclear cardiology and PET/CT.

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