Opal-RAD is a software device that receives digital images and data from various sources (i.e. CT scanners, MR scanners, ultrasound systems, R/F Units, computed & direct radiographic devices, secondary capture devices, scanners, imaging gateways or other imaging sources). Images and data can be stored, communicated, processed and displayed within the system and or across computer networks at distributed locations.
A freestanding component of an x-ray-based diagnostic digital imaging assembly [e.g., a digital x-ray system, x-ray computed tomography (CT) system, or fluoroscopy system] designed to process patient radiological images; it may additionally be intended to be integrated as part of a radiology picture archiving and communication system (PACS). It consists of dedicated hardware (e.g., computer processing unit, monitor) with integrated software typically to assist image analysis (e.g., viewing, manipulation, interpretation); it does not include controls for direct operation of the imaging system.