GE Healthcare Integrated Registration Brochure

Multi-Modality Image Management.

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Overview

Integrated Registration provides you
with the capability to fuse and register
two volumetric acquisitions from either
the same or different acquisition
modalities. With it, you can easily
compare 3D anatomical images from
CT, MR with PET, SPECT, and X-ray
angiography1 for a more
comprehensive analysis.

In Radiology practice today, multiple complementary imaging
modalities are frequently relied on to image the same patient, as
each modality provides unique anatomical and physiological
information. 3D modalities such as CT and MRI provide
information about the relationship of anomalous findings to
surrounding structures and tissues. The Integrated Registration
application provides you with the a streamlined workflow to
combine and display images from any two of the five major
modalities (CT, MR, PET, SPECT, and X-ray angiography),aimed
at improving your ability to provide more clinically relevant
diagnostic information, and improving surgical and treatment
planning.

• Load and register on the fly

with drag and drop.

• Easy registration and fusion.

• Automatic registration

propagation across series:
one-click access to pre-defined
protocols.

• Automatic, manual, and

landmark registration methods.

• 2D, 3D, and hybrid capabilities.

• Rigid and non-rigid

(deformable) registration.

• Lets you draw and save

contours as RTSS DICOM
objects.

• Optional definition of

anatomical regions of interest
for optimization of fusion in this
region.

• Compatible with GE Advantage

SIM MD and other standard
treatment planning software.

Integrated
Registration

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Features

• Combines images from different

modalities for enhanced volume
definition.

• Fuses functional and anatomical

images.

• Provides access to Volume Viewer

2

functions, including Multiplanar
Reformat, slab and oblique
reformations, triple oblique easy
definition, volume rendering, 3D
display, distance and Region of
Interest (ROI) measurements,3
layout management,
segmentations, film, and save.

• Ability to save registered data as

new DICOM series or as a
registered DICOM object (does not
include SPECT).

• Loads exams and series from CT,

MR, PET, SPECT or XA together for
registration in the same session.

• Offers a choice of four automatic

registration methods.

• Draw and save contours as RTSS

DICOM objects.

• Allows you to customize screen

layouts to suit your review needs.

• Allows you to define one or more

contours around relevant
anatomy.

• Ability to automatically bind

several MR axial series
corresponding to sequential axial
locations into a single series. This
may be displayed as sagittal or
coronal reformats.

• Provides comparison of a current

exam with previous exams to
evaluate disease progression or

and AW Server 2

Indications for Use

Integrated Registration provides easy
comparison of three-dimensional (3D)
images from Computed Tomography
(CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(MRI), Emission Tomography (PET or
SPECT) and X-Ray Angiography
images (XA). To help physicians in
diagnostic radiology or therapy
planning, Integrated Registration
allows 3D registration between
volumetric acquisitions that may
come from the same acquisition
modality or from different acquisition
modalities.

Regulatory Compliance

This product complies with the
European CE Marking regulation for
Medical Devices Directive: Directive
93/42/EEC, dated 14 June 1993.

1

For XA modality series, Integrated
Registration currently supports only 3D X­Ray Angiography images (stored as CT
Image Storage DICOM objects) acquired with
GE Innova equipment and
reconstructed with the Innova3DXR
application.

2

Requires Volume Viewer key

3

The ROI measurement works only on rigid
registered images, not on non-rigid
registered images.

4

Requires DICOM RT capability on RT

treatment efficacy.

• Define volume of interest in one

model for automatic report to
another model for subsequent use
in Radiation Therapy (RT) planning.4

• Save registered results as a new

reformatted series.

• Provide referring physicians with

clearer, more detailed reports.

Image Requirements

Acquisition position and plane, slices
resolution, number, thickness, and
spacing may be different in the
acquisition of the two exams to be
registered.

Each image set should meet basic
requirements, however:

• Field of view, matrix size, and

display center should be the same
for all images inside one series

• Orientation should be the same for

all images in the series

• Series should include more than

one image

• Tilted acquisitions are not

supported by mutual information
based automatic algorithms; they
can be registered with manual,

landmark, or automatic “matching
boundaries” registration methods.

• Datasets used as reference and

moving should have some
matching anatomical location.

System Requirements

AW Volume Share 4 and above
running on xw8400, xw8600 or z800

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