OK. So they can open scans and look at them in the hospital and the coffee shop and the lobby. But a new magnetic resonance (MR) advanced visualization platform will now allow clinicians to look at and analyze images anytime, anywhere, using ReadyView software, according to a story by medimaging.net writers.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MR) is a safe, comfortable imaging technology that uses a magnetic field instead of radiation to see inside the body, according to Hastings Imaging Center.

GE Healthcare has announced FDA clearance of its Ready View software, “accessible through any personal computer, picture archiving and communication system or radiology information system workstation,” allowing users to get access to images just about anywhere – office, meeting room, or even at the kitchen table.

The Ready View advanced visualization platform combines protocols, applications, and advanced tools to enable a quantified analysis of images that is fast and easy, GE Healthcare told the writers. ReadyView uses four-dimensional review and image averaging, and “fast and accurate multiparametric protocols, such as brain oncology, knee, and liver,” the story reports.

Multiparametric protocols offer a way to analyze data from a single screen without having to leave the place where they are reading it, according to the story.

“MR is moving to quantitative analysis to improve lesion detection, characterization, or monitoring,” Jim Davis, general manager of global MR business at GE Healthcare, told medimagingnet.com. “The Ready View platform is the first step in bringing clinicians a fast and easy way to process and analyze MR data anytime and anywhere. With Ready View, clinicians can automatically segment an abnormality, convert into a 3D volume, then quickly see, and export the curve and associated statistics to the segmented area."

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