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New Thermal Imaging Camera System For Coal-Fired Boilers Improves Plant Efficiency

December 16th, 2011 Posted in Various
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New Thermal Imaging Camera System For Coal-Fired Boilers Improves Plant Efficiency










Santa Clara, California (PRWEB) September 05, 2011

LumaSense Technologies, Inc. has introduced a unique thermal imaging camera system that uses high-quality video and data analysis software to help coal-fired power plants run their boilers and produce power more efficiently: The LumaSense BoilerSpection is a heavy-duty, radiometric thermal infrared imaging system that allows operators to see through combustion flames, providing clear images from inside boilers, furnaces and kilns ( http://www.lumasenseinc.com/EN/products/thermal-imagers-detectors-and-cores/fixed-imaging-systems/boilerspection.html ). This helps plants to better monitor boiler tubes and slag deposits that prevent boilers from running at peak efficiency. By proactively maintaining boilers with infrared thermography and continuous thermal vision, coal plants can improve boiler uptime by reducing the number of manual cleaning cycles and decreasing tube erosion typically caused by excessive cleaning.

For example, Alabama Power’s Miller Steam Plant – located in West Jefferson, Ala. – has significantly reduced the number of “de-slags” on two of its four boilers using LumaSense’s IR imaging camera and thermography system BoilerSpection, and eliminated the need for online washes during a six-month beta period. Prior to using BoilerSpection, the plant estimates it performed approximately 51 de-slags on the boilers in 2010, a process that decreases generation on the units from 720 megawatts to 300 megawatts for approximately 4-6 hours. During the six-month beta test with the new thermal image camera system, they performed only 12 of these processes. The plant is planning to outfit its remaining two boilers with BoilerSpection. “The cost savings on cleaning the boilers alone is worth the investment, but the increased productivity that BoilerSpection enables makes the plant much more efficient overall,” said Brent Hand, maintenance team leader at the Miller Steam Plant. “The sharper images and analysis capabilities provide us the information we need to run the plant more efficiently, extract more energy from the coal, and run a better operation.”

BoilerSpection is a turn-key solution for continuous infrared imaging inside boilers with short term return on investment (ROI) improving coal plant efficiency by reducing cleaning frequencies, extending boiler tube life, and optimizing fuel switching strategies. Infrared temperature measurement with thermal imagers using BoilerSpection provides clearest, most informative through-flame imaging, thermal vision and imagery for boilers, and e. g. real time hotspot monitoring. The system includes an infrared imaging camera with a cooled borescope lens, automatic retraction system, mounting hardware, a networked software system integrated into the plants DCS, and full-service field installation and maintenance.

BoilerSpection enables plant operators to manage multiple thermal imaging camera systems, configure trip alarms for automating soot-blowers or water cannons, and establish minimum acceptable levels of clinker formation. The camera itself is protected by a heavy-duty enclosure with an integrated cooling system. The IR thermal camera imaging system also uses cooled borescope optics and a 3.9-um infrared wavelength to see through combustion flames and monitor the boiler tubes and slag deposits. In addition to the high-resolution thermal imager designed to withstand harsh boiler conditions, BoilerSpection’s data analysis software allows operators to measure and track changes over time, trigger events or alarms to help prevent unplanned shutdowns, archive data, and view images anywhere in the plant using HTML platforms, among other functions. “With increased consumer demand and tighter environmental regulations, the top objective for any coal plant today is to squeeze out more energy from the same amount of coal,” said Brett Sargent, vice president of global sales for LumaSense Technologies. “BoilerSpection is designed specifically for that purpose. It provides a continuous picture of how boilers are operating and gives plants the data they need to more efficiently maintain their boilers and reduce unnecessary downtime. By reducing the number of cleaning cycles, customers lose less production time and produce more energy.”

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LumaSense Technologies Inc.

Jeff Becker

3301 Leonard Court

95054 Santa Clara, CA

+1 408 235 3828

j(dot)becker(at)lumasenseinc(dot)com

http://www.lumasenseinc.com

About LumaSense Technologies

LumaSense Technologies, Inc. ( http://www.lumasenseinc.com ) provides temperature and gas sensing solutions that optimize the performance of equipment, environments and organizations. We are a trusted partner to both end-user and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), drawing on our proven technologies and deep industry expertise to develop state-of-the-art infrared and fiber optic temperature sensors, radiometric thermal imagers and gas analyzers. With offices in Asia, Europe and the Americas, LumaSense is ideally positioned to serve the needs of the energy, industrial and clean technology markets worldwide.

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Central Illinois Radiological Associates Selects Visage 7 for Enterprise Imaging Platform

December 11th, 2011 Posted in Movies
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Central Illinois Radiological Associates Selects Visage 7 for Enterprise Imaging Platform












San Diego, CA (PRWEB) December 08, 2011

Visage Imaging, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pro Medicus Ltd. (ASX: PME), announced today they have signed Central Illinois Radiological Associates (CIRA). After more than a year of detailed evaluation, software trials, site visits and side-by-side comparisons of available technologies, CIRA selected and has begun installation of Visage® 7 as its enterprise imaging platform.

CIRA, a large Illinois-based radiology group comprising 72 radiologists, provides diagnostic interpretation services to more than sixteen different hospitals throughout Illinois. A key challenge for CIRA radiologists has been providing interpretations across twenty-two locations, supported by PACS from seven different vendors, nine different RIS systems and a mix of reporting technologies. Seeking to overcome this common challenge for radiology groups, CIRA’s platform goal was to have a single unified worklist, enterprise viewer and workflow for remote interpretation across all of their customer sites.

The Visage 7 amazingly fast, thin-client enterprise imaging viewer will be fully integrated with the CIRA unified worklist and common dictation platform to provide CIRA radiologists with a powerful, single solution for primary interpretation.

“One of the critical differentiators highlighted in CIRA’s diligent selection process was Visage 7 did not require patient imaging data be moved from the hospital data center, to the radiologist client workstation, in order to proceed with diagnostic interpretation,“ said Dr. Sam Hupert, Visage Imaging’s CEO. “It was something promoted as one of our unique advantages, but we had to prove it conclusively before CIRA’s IT experts were able to convince their selection committee that Visage 7 could accomplish what no other competitor could. We really let our server-side technology do the talking.“

“Implementing one unified workflow, across a large number of disparate systems, while meeting our radiologists’ strict performance requirements, had never been done before in our experience. We needed to show our radiologists that this solution would work in practice and was more than just theory,” said Patrick Ward, CIRA’s CIO. “Our tests confirmed that with Visage’s streaming technology, not only do we no longer have to push DICOM files to the radiologists’ workstations, it is the only product that offers us the unique combination of speed, performance and fully native advanced visualization tools all in one enterprise viewer.”

“Our agreement with CIRA provides us the opportunity to work with one of the country’s most respected radiology groups, supported by a team of cutting-edge Radiology IT professionals,” said Dr. Hupert. “We’re embarking on a journey to improve CIRA’s enterprise workflow, which will reap productivity and efficiency benefits for their radiologists, helping them deliver enhanced service to referring physicians and their patients.”

About Visage Imaging, Inc.

Visage Imaging is a global provider of enterprise imaging and advanced visualization solutions for diagnostic imaging and clinical research. For diagnostic imaging, Visage 7 delivers amazingly fast server-side rendered images streamed via an intelligent thin-client viewer. Radiologists and referring physicians have a customized, protocol-driven workflow to natively view 2D, 3D, 4D and advanced visualization imagery across a single desktop. Powerful imaging solutions include enterprise viewing and interpretation; image enablement of EMRs, VNAs, and portals; RIS/PACS, as well as anywhere mobile access. For clinical research, Amira is a proven high-performance visualization and analysis platform for life science and biomedical data used by the world’s most prominent institutions. At their core, both Visage 7 and Amira share proven visualization technology, helping thousands of researchers and physicians worldwide overcome their research and clinical challenges. http://www.visageimaging.com

About Pro Medicus Limited

Pro Medicus Limited [ASX: PME] is Australia’s leading medical IT and e-health provider. Founded in 1983, the company provides a full range of integrated software products and services to hospital, imaging centers and health care groups worldwide. http://www.promedicus.com

Contacts:

Brad Levin, General Manager, North America and Vice President, Global Marketing

Visage Imaging, Inc./ Pro Medicus Limited    

Phone: (703) 858-5758 or 540-454-9670    

E-mail: blevin(at)visageimaging(dot)com    

Visage, Visage Imaging, and Visioneering Science for Life are registered trademarks of Pro Medicus Limited. Other product and company names mentioned may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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Moviemakers Discover iCRco?s Full-Spine Imaging System ? See It at RSNA!

December 11th, 2011 Posted in Games
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Moviemakers Discover iCRco’s Full-Spine Imaging System – See It at RSNA!











Irvine, CA (PRWEB) November 27, 2011

One of next summer’s blockbuster movies will feature iCRco’s iDR Long BoneTM technology in its storyline. The iDR Long Bone was selected by the film’s creators because it is the only digital radiography solution capable of both regional scanning and full-spine imaging studies.

“At 17×51, the iDR Long Bone has the largest image capture area on the market,” said iCRco Director of Strategic Marketing and Business Development Jared K. Houk. “Our single-exposure long bone radiography system utilizes needle-phosphor technology for high-resolution, low dose images.” Because iDR Long Bone utilizes only a single image, it eliminates the need for multiple exposures and the image-stitching software required to link them together.

The iDR Long Bone system works by sending image information from the detector plate directly to a scan processor. Its wall-mounted, moving scan head enables the device to take the full image in a single shot.

Unique applications for iDR Long Bone technology include neck and chest, full torso, full leg and full spine imaging, as well as scoliosis evaluation for pediatric cases.

“iDR Long Bone is a versatile application,” said Houk. “It is not only more efficient than the conventional methods used to scan the same areas, but it is a low-dose process, and that is something that we’re all very conscious of these days.”

Visitors to the iCRco booth at RSNA 2011 can learn the name of the movie in which the iDR Long Bone will appear.

About iCRco

Founded in 1990 by Stephen Neushul, iCRco has introduced several innovative technologies with its direct digital radiography, computed radiography, film digitizer and PACS product lines. In 2002, iCRco introduced the first computed radiography machine to have True Flat Scan Path™ technology. Today, iCRco continues to lead its medical imaging categories through the development of innovative digital x-ray imaging solutions, including a complete suite of x-ray imaging hardware, PACS, imaging software and integrated solutions for the medical, chiropractic, dental, veterinary and non-destructive testing markets.

iCRco is proud to be the choice of United States Military for portable digital imaging and received straight A’s in all fields in the 2009 KLAS Medical Imaging Buyer’s Guide.

For more information, contact Hydee Ong, iCRco Marketing Manager at (310) 921-9559 x224 or at hong(at)icrcompany(dot)com. 2011 RSNA attendees may also see the iCRco products and services at booth 5622.

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Taking the Pulse of an Iceberg?Scientists Simulate Laser Imaging for NASA Missions

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Taking the Pulse of an Iceberg—Scientists Simulate Laser Imaging for NASA Missions










Rochester, NY (PRWEB) November 29, 2011

Monitoring glaciers and ice sheets is complicated work. They move and change shape. They melt.

A scientist at Rochester Institute of Technology is giving NASA better tools for assessing changes in the fragile polar region. John Kerekes won a three-year, $ 561,130 grant from NASA to help the space agency’s scientists better interpret remotely sensed data collected with laser light.

The technology—known as lidar or “light detection and ranging”—measures altitude by shooting pulses of laser light, or photons, at a target. The light pulses reach the surface and bounce back to the sensor. The detector measures the distance traveled and forms an image of the shape pulse by pulse. The processed data creates three-dimensional renderings or digital elevation maps that scientists can use to measure changes in the polar ice. Future NASA missions, such as the upcoming Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, will use lidar devices. Slated for launch in 2016, ICESat-2 will measure ice-surface topography and assess changes to Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and sea ice.

“The ICESat-2 science team wants to be able to measure annual changes in ice-sheet thickness to within a few millimeters, averaged over the entire ice sheet,” says Kerekes, an associate professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science at RIT.

“Take a flat mirror—a pulse of light comes down, bounces off the mirror and you know exactly how long it took,” he explains. “But real ice sheets and glaciers have narrow crevasses that may be only a few meters wide and tens of meters deep. And the laser pulse is going to interact with that complex surface in a way that will be very different than if it were just a flat surface.”

Kerekes’ team will give lidar a trial run in a simulated arctic environment well before NASA launches the technology on its future mission. They will use the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Image Generation tool, developed at RIT, to model the light-scattering radiometric behavior of the Earth and its atmosphere in a computer-coded world of glaciers and icebergs orbited by a simulated ICESat-2.

“DIRSIG is capable of simulating scenes that reflect the physics and radiometry found in the real world as compared to simulations that were designed for a movie, where it doesn’t have to have the right physical units; it just has to look good,” Kerekes says.

The polar scene is a stage for working out the complicated geometry of ice nooks and crevasses, dusted with snow or completely covered. It allows the team to trace the light pulses and write algorithms accounting for the multiple scattering that delays the photons’ return to the sensor. Modeling how the detector works on a computer will advance the science of using laser data to interpret the shape of an ice sheet in the real world. The simulation also doubles as an inexpensive way to test potential design changes or shortfalls in component performances.

Input from geophysicist Beata Csatho, associate professor of geology at University at Buffalo, will provide essential details to the mini-Arctic world. Her expertise in polar topics with a remote-sensing perspective will layer the scenes with realistic physical details of ice sheets and glaciers and lend relevance to testing the laser sensor’s signal processing methods via computer software. Csatho, who is also the leader of the NASA ICESat-2 Science Definition Team, understands the challenges of interpreting data collected from airplanes and satellites.

“Ice sheets and glaciers play a critical role in the Earth’s climate system and they are major contributors to global sea level rise,” Csatho says. “Ice sheets and outlet glaciers often change rapidly exhibiting a complex pattern, controlled by interactions with climate, oceanographic and geological processes. Simulations will allow us to develop and test algorithms to process ICESat-2 data for mapping the surface as accurately as possible, even in adverse conditions such when blowing snow or ice fog restrict the visibility or the lidar beam is reflected from a surface covered by melting snow or large snow crystals.”

“It’s a complementary collaboration,” Kerekes adds. “We’re working on modeling the instrument—how it works; how the light interacts with the surface. The UB team is providing an understanding of how we should construct a surface model and what are the most important issues in terms of the NASA science community.”

In addition to Csatho, Kerekes’ team includes Scott Brown, scientist in RIT’s Center for Imaging Science, who will write the computer code approximating the polar environment; Jiashu Zhang, a doctoral student in the center, who will apply Brown’s detailed simulations to key problem areas, such as characterizing dynamic deformations in ice sheets throughout different scenes; and Anton Schenk, research professor at UB, who is using photogrammetry and remote sensing to develop detailed surface models of different ice surface types for the simulations.

Kerekes and Csatho will attend an ICESat-2 Science Definition Team meeting in Washington, D.C., in January to meet with other scientists involved with the data analysis.

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RadSite Offers Complimentary Patient Safety Webinar on Imaging Practices: Must-see Online Presentation Highlights Recent Trends & Identifies Potential Risks

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RadSite Offers Complimentary Patient Safety Webinar on Imaging Practices:
Must-see Online Presentation Highlights Recent Trends & Identifies Potential Risks













Promoting Quality Assessment for Imaging


Houston, TX and Annapolis, MD (PRWEB) December 08, 2011

RadSite™, the leading provider of assessment and accreditation services in the imaging industry, announces the release of an eye-opening webinar that will explain the compelling need for consistent quality standards for diagnostic imaging in America. This informative webinar is led by RadSite’s chief medical director, William W. Orrison, Jr., MD, MBA.

“As new imaging technologies evolve, and as our understanding of the effects of radiation on humans improve, it is very important to bring the most current information to the attention of ordering physicians,” says Dr. Orrison. “When equipped with the most complete and current data, patients and their attending medical personnel can make informed decisions.”

The risk to patients and imaging providers from medical radiation is often considered low, but accidents can happen due to human error or imaging system issues. The broadly accepted principal relative to medical radiation is to keep the dose to patients and staff “As Low As Reasonably Achievable” (or ALARA).

“RadSite is pleased to be at the forefront of supporting a number of consumer-centered initiatives to promote patient safety,” says RadSite board chairperson, Cherrill Farnsworth. “Part of our mission is to ensure imaging providers offer high-quality imaging through a series of approval processes relative to imaging equipment, operation and interpretation. RadSite’s safety initiatives include a review of radiation safety policies and procedures as well as a radiation safety educational program.

“Dr. Orrison’s presentation is extremely informative and challenges us to re-think some of our basic assumptions regarding the potential hazards associated with imaging. For example, how much ionizing radiation is permissible for one procedure and/or during a lifetime?” says Garry Carneal, RadSite’s president and CEO. “The webinar presentation also features a video link to Dr. Orrison speaking along with his PowerPoint presentation, which adds an interesting visual element to the session. Individuals also can re-play key comments and slides at any time during the presentation.”    

To download and view the webinar, please visit http://www.radsitequality.com and click on the “RadSite Approach” navigation button. The complimentary webinar also is broken down into four parts to enhance the ability to stream the video to an individual’s computer. A CD of the webinar can be mailed to individuals for a small fee.

About RadSite™ (http://www.radsitequality.com)

Founded in 2005, RadSite’s mission is to promote quality-based practices for imaging systems across the United States and its territories. RadSite has certified over 20,000 imaging facilities covering at about 50,000 imaging systems. RadSite’s certification and accreditation programs help assess, track and report imaging trends in an effort to enhance imaging procedures and outcomes. RadSite also offers educational programs, publishes issue briefs, and underwrites research on a complimentary basis to raise awareness of patient safety issues and to promote best practices. The organization is governed by an independent board and committee system, which is open to a wide-range of volunteers to ensure transparency and accountability. RadSite is expanding its activities and resources to serve patients, providers, payers, government agencies, and other stakeholder groups. To learn more about RadSite, please contact us at (855) 440-6001 or info(at)radsitequality(dot)com.

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