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Diagnosoft® PLUS
Cardiac MRI enables you to perform more than one test in a single scan session. Diagnosoft PLUS follows suit, providing a single platform to analyze and quantify all the images you obtain. It immediately improves your ability to make a quantitative diagnosis using the following analysis tools:
      Features
HARP® MR image analysis, which tracks the regional cardiac motion from tagged images, and measures regional function: circumferential shortening, radial strain, wall thickening and other related measures, and measures ventricular torsion in short-axis and long-axis views of the heart. CORE, determines intensity curves, measures peak intensity up-slope, provides easy segmentation and identification of endocardium and epicardium, measures ventricular volume, mass, ejection fraction (EF), wall thickening, and wall thickness. CORE also determines the volume, transmurality and regional distribution of delayed enhancement regions of the heart. FLOW, measures the blood flow of major vessels from phase contrast MR images. Diagnosoft FLOW automatically segments the vessels, allowing you to track the changes of blood flow velocity through time in up to 4 regions. T2*provides an easy and automated way to measure T2* from images acquired at different echo time by MRI. The product provides a map of T2* with a pixel resolution, as well as an easy way to divide the heart into different segments based on the 17-segment model of the heart. Benefits
Accuracy:By “measuring” the motion of the segments of the heart, including regional strain and twisting of the left ventricle, Diagnosoft PLUS eliminates the ambiguity associated with qualitative assessment. Precision: Strain maps produced by Diagnosoft PLUS show the degree and exact location of regional dysfunction, and help visualize and localize sub-endocardial infarcts. Definitive dyssynchrony assessment: Strain measurements for all the segments, during the cardiac cycle, enable the measuring of mechanical dyssynchrony. Localization: Strain is a quantity that reflects the actual regional contraction, or lack of contraction, of the myocardium. The same localization is the main feature of the other tissue parameters; such as tissue hyperenhancement and T2* measurements. Sensitivity: Diagnosoft PLUS measurements enable the detection of subtle changes in regional tissue parameters that are extremely hard to detect visually. |
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