Pegasus Imaging gets go-ahead for PICToolsPegasus Imaging received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration last month for its PICTools Medical Compression Toolkit (PNN 8/98). PICTools consists of five compression
Pegasus Imaging received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration last month for its PICTools Medical Compression Toolkit (
PNN
8/98). PICTools consists of five compression technologies, including high-speed lossless JPEG, lossy JPEG, and wavelet compression.
The Tampa, FL-based company claims that PICTools is the only library of compression technologies approved by the FDA that includes a comprehensive set of lossless and lossy compression. Pegasus also announced that it has made licensing agreements with various teleradiology developers and clinics, some of which will display PICTools technology at the RSNA show this month.
Is MRI Contrast Enhancement Necessary for Long-Term Monitoring of Diffuse Glioma?
March 4th 2025In a comparison of contrast-enhanced T1-weighted (CET1w) MRI (and T2-weighted MRI/FLAIR imaging, researchers found that only three out of 82 cases of glioma progression were solely detected with CET1w MRI.