Atirix and RIT Announce QC-Connector™ Interface for CT and MRI Image QC Data

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To: Directors of Diagnostic Imaging, Quality Control Managers and Medical Physicists

From: Steve Backes, Chief Executive Officer, Atirix Medical Systems

Dan Ritt, President and Chief Engineer, Radiological Imaging Technology (RIT)

RE: Atirix and RIT announce QC-Connector™ interface for CT and MRI image QC data

Atirix Medical Systems and RIT are pleased to announce the QC-Connector, a new module for a secure interface between the RIT Radia™ system and the Atirix QC-Track® system.

RIT’s Radia, released in 2009, is a system for analyzing phantom images, scoring images per ACR guidelines, and generating a report. Radia automatically scores phantom images and provides objective measurements which are required for ACR accreditation, insurance reimbursement, and routine physics checks. Radia’s RunQueueC™ batch processing capability allows a facility to set up a standard QC process, significantly reducing the overall time to perform QC and improving consistency. RIT currently offers modules for CT and MRI phantom QC.

Atirix’s patent-pending QC-Track system, released in 2008, was originally developed by Atirix and Hologic for automating the tracking and graphing required by the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA). QC-Track is designed for device QC and credential management, and enables “at-a-glance” management of QC and credential process status with dashboards that show current and past-due tests, upcoming credential expirations, and scheduled reviews. QC-Track Enterprise Center™, available directly from Atirix, has been enhanced to meet the needs of radiology centers for quality control across multiple modalities and locations.

The QC-Connector is a secure interface for QC-Track Enterprise Center to receive QC data and reports. A new workflow is now available within Radia to package Radia phantom analytics data, connect to a QC-Track system, and transmit Radia QC data to QC-Track. In QC-Track the QC-Connector module receives the Radia data and maps it into the QC-Track worksheets and database.

The combination of Radia, QC-Connector and QC-Track greatly reduces the time to calculate and record phantom scoring data, freeing up CT and MRI systems for patient care.

“QC-Track is an important piece of the puzzle for Radia customers,” said Dan Ritt, Founder and President of RIT. “We’ve had many requests for a solution to centrally and securely manage the MRI and CT phantom analytics and reports generated by Radia. I think QC-Track, with its web-based packaging and heritage in the rigorous world of mammography QC, is an excellent solution for general radiology QC.”

Steve Backes, CEO, Atirix, added, “QC-Track customers will find the productivity gains and consistency of the Radia product to be an important part of their enterprise QC program. Medical physicists worldwide are familiar with RIT’s products for radiation therapy. We are pleased to be working with recognized experts in phantom analytics.”

Contact Atirix and RIT for further product information, technical specifications and pricing quotations.

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For information on Radia please contact RIT at 719.590.1077 or see www.radimage.com

For information on QC-Track please contact Atirix at 877.273.1764 or see www.atirix.com