Catella Worstaions can be configured to fit your requirements. Both the number of monitors and the system's components can be scaled to meet your needs. The building blocks are interchangeable, giving you the freedom to match your current capacity with your choice of configurations. No matter how you configure your Catella workstation, it will have the same ease of operation, productivity-enhancing user interface, and Active Voice Command features.
The major Catella advantages include:

• Intuitive workflow
• Complete image manipulation tools
• Active Voice Command sm
• Instant reporting capabilities
• Audio Attendant™

Catella uses an open hardware architecture based on Intel/AMD technology and Windows 2000. With open architecture, Catella can accommodate a large variety of custom configurations including up to 8 LCD or CRT monitors.

ACTIVE VOICE COMMAND

You are involved in digital imaging because of digitals promise to provide you more and better information, and its promise to increase your productivity.Active Voice Command (AVC) is one of the ways Catella delivers on this productivity promise!

In its simplest form, AVC allows you to control image manipulation and patient film selection with your voice. This will speed your review and diagnostic process because the voice commands Catella uses are the traditional terms you already know.

AVC eliminates your need to memorize icons and mouse commands, finger positions, button locations, and all those things that take your mind off the diagnostic process. Studies have shown that 20% of a radiologist's time is spent finding menus on other workstations.

With AVC, Catella becomes an intelligent assistant.

AVC is also integrated into Catella 's Audio Attendant . The Audio Attendant gives you instructions and constructive error messages. You are free to concentrate on your diagnostic work rather than having to remember how to operate the workstation.

AUDIO ATTENDANT

In designing Catella, we attempted to take the computer out of your work environment. Both the look and feel of the product will remind you of a traditional console-mount viewbox. If you use the Active Voice Command System, you will rarely use a trackball or keyboard.

Audio Attendant is another unique Catella feature to make your life easier and your working time more productive. Using audio feedback, Catella tells you key words and commands to help you move rapidly through your worklist.

Here are a few examples of how Audio Attendant works:

• When you are about to move to another patient's films but haven't seen all of the images from this patient, Audio Attendant will remind you that "more images" are available.
• If you push to the outer limits of zoom, pan, window or level, Catella will remind you with a soft "beep"
• When you select the measure tool, Catella gives you instruction on its use…. "Right click and drag"

There is no need to memorize how to use Catella. Audio Attendant will remind you.

IMAGE REVIEW TOOLS

Catella contains a complete set of image manipulation tools and exceeds the 1999 ACR recommendations. Here are some of the more commonly used one:

Swap - Allows user to move images to more desired monitor positions. Like "flipping" films.

Stack - Multiple image files can be played sequentially at user-selected speeds. Stack mode is useful for MR/CT image viewing. (Stack/Cine mode is also functional for most Nuclear Medicine and Angio studies.

Annotate - .Highlight important areas of interest and include specific text explanations. These annotated images can be attached and/or embedded into your report and also saved in non-DICOM formats for such needs as teaching records or lecture notes.

Other Tools include: Window/Level, Advance, Previous, Flip, Rotate, Invert, Measure, Zoom, Pan, Thumbnail, Remarks, Options, and more.

INSTANT REPORTING CAPABILITIES

Catella can be integrated into your facility based dictation system. Call us with your specific needs.

• Catella captures important patient and study information to help automate your reporting functions. Listed here are the standard Catella reporting functions.
• Catella can automatically send reading status or emergency diagnostic messages to others. This is ideal for teleradiologists or doctors reading for emergency rooms who want to keep the sending location informed. Preliminary reads, including annotated images can be sent automatically by fax!
• Catella can print and/or send a completed work list at the end of a reading session. This allows you to keep track of your completed work.
• Physicians, either on or off-site, can have instant, secure access to images as soon as they are made. Historical images can be automatically attached to current images and all images can be queried from a local archive.
• Your dictation can be routed anywhere you desire, automatically. Key patient, physician, and institutional information are transferred from the DICOM record, reducing transcription time and errors. Using MS Word®, the Catella Scribe system allows the use of templates for stationary development and work macros to assure standardization of reports.

With active voice command, instant reporting and transcription programming, Catella offers you the possibility of integrating your dictation system with our workstation.