{"id":5098,"date":"2023-07-20T20:13:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T20:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senomedical.com\/?p=5098"},"modified":"2025-06-16T20:13:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T20:13:55","slug":"seno-medicals-photoacoustic-imaging-modality-added-to-dicom-standards-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senomedical.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/20\/seno-medicals-photoacoustic-imaging-modality-added-to-dicom-standards-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Seno Medical\u2019s Photoacoustic Imaging Modality Added to DICOM\u00ae Standards Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Seno\u2019s Imagio<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0System Uses Photoacoustic (Opto-acoustic) and Ultrasound Imaging to help doctors better characterize suspicious breast lesions to avoid unnecessary invasive biopsies and improve patient care.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>[San Antonio, TX \u2013 July 20, 2023] Seno Medical\u2019s technology platform for the Imagio<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Breast Imaging System &#8211; which includes Photoacoustic imaging &#8211; has been added to the\u00a0Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dicomstandard.org\/news-dir\/current\/index.html#sup229\"><u>(DICOM<\/u><sup><u>\u00ae<\/u><\/sup><u>) Standards<\/u><\/a>\u00a0update version 2023c\u00a0<u>(<\/u><a href=\"chrome-extension:\/\/efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj\/https:\/www.dicomstandard.org\/news-dir\/current\/docs\/sups\/sup229.pdf\"><u>Supp 229<\/u><\/a><u>)<\/u>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The DICOM Standard<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>is<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>managed by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dicomstandard.org\/authenticate-mita\/\"><u>Medical Imaging &amp; Technology Alliance<\/u><\/a>\u00a0&#8211; a division of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dicomstandard.org\/authenticate-nema\/\"><u>National Electrical Manufacturers Association<\/u><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This inclusion in the internationally-accepted standards enables photoacoustic images to be accepted as part of a best practice standard for medical imaging providers.<\/p>\n<p>Imagio<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0opto-acoustic\/ultrasound (OA\/US) technology combines laser optics (photoacoustic imaging) and grayscale ultrasound to offer fused functional and anatomical breast imaging. The opto-acoustic images provide a unique blood map in and around breast masses, while the ultrasound provides a traditional anatomical image. Through the appearance or absence of two hallmark indicators of cancer \u2014 angiogenesis and deoxygenation\u00a0\u2014 the Imagio<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0OA\/US Breast Imaging System is a more effective tool to help radiologists confirm or rule out malignancy compared with traditional diagnostic imaging modalities. And it does this without exposing patients to ionizing radiation (x-rays) or contrast agents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DICOM<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0\u2014 Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 is\u00a0<i>the<\/i>\u00a0international standard for medical images and related information. It defines the formats for medical images that can be exchanged with the data and quality necessary for clinical use. DICOM<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0is implemented in almost every radiology, cardiology imaging, and radiotherapy device (X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, etc.), and increasingly in devices in other medical domains such as ophthalmology and dentistry. With hundreds of thousands of medical imaging devices in use, DICOM<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0is one of the most widely deployed healthcare messaging Standards in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seno Medical Instruments, Inc.\u00a0<\/strong>is a San Antonio, Texas-based medical imaging company committed to developing and commercializing a new modality in cancer diagnosis: opto-acoustic imaging. Approved by the US FDA in January 2021 with additional approval in June 2022 including its state-of-the-art ultrasound technologies, Seno Medical\u2019s Imagio<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Breast Imaging System fuses opto-acoustic technology with ultrasound (OA\/US) to generate real-time functional and anatomical images of the breast.\u00a0To learn more about Seno Medical\u2019s OA\/US imaging technology and applications, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.senomedical.com\/\"><u>www.SenoMedical.com<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seno\u2019s Imagio\u00ae\u00a0System Uses Photoacoustic (Opto-acoustic) and Ultrasound Imaging to help doctors better characterize suspicious breast lesions to avoid unnecessary invasive biopsies and improve patient care. 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