aycan workstation

FDA Cleared, High Performance, Best Value

Overview

Key Features & Benefits

Technical Specifications

Integration & Compatibility

Key Applications

Support & Resources

Overview

aycan workstation

With tools for general diagnostic reading and advanced post-processing, plus certified plug-ins, aycan workstation is the perfect solution wherever there is demand for fast and easy access to medical images.

Key Features

Operates Stand-Alone

or in concert with others for single or multi-user operation

Full 3D and 4D Capabilities

Multi-Planar Reconstruction,

volume rendering, and multiple projections

Flexible Multi-Window and Multi-Monitor Support

Full DICOM

send and receive, import, and CD burn workstation

Clinical and Workflow
Plug-Ins

to easily enhance and extend capability

Key Benefits

  • Vendor Neutral — can work with any PACS
  • Native Apple Mac thick-client software
  • Natively supports Apple Silicon Platform
  • Single platform for all types of medical imaging
  • FDA-cleared
  • EU MDR
  • Immediate, live, service and support

Technical Specifications

Upgrades: natively supports the Apple Silicon Platform, providing 6x faster image loading times than prior version, and DICOM importing via the workstation’s ayMediaImporter plugin is now 2x faster than prior version.

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The ayReport plug-in with universally recognized PDF report templates allows easy report completion and sharing.
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aycan continually develops clinical and workflow plug-ins to further enhance aycan workstation‘s capabilities. Additionally, aycan works with its partners and other plug-in development companies to provide tested and certified solutions. Review our full list of plug-ins with FDA clearance and CE Marking.
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aycan workstation (a Mac system) can be smoothly and easily integrated into a Windows-dominated environment, so you can take advantage of savings on operating and processing costs. Learn how this is easily done and all the benefits of using a Mac over a PC for post processing.
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The aycan mobile iPad app is designed for the easy, fast, and secure transfer of DICOM images from hospitals and imaging centers to on-call and other radiologists and referring physicians with an iPad. Available as a subscription with the purchase of aycan workstation (not available separately).
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  • Integrated structured reporting with a Dragon™ for Mac interface
  • Clinical and workflow plug-ins to easily enhance and extend capability

Integration & Compatibility

aycan Products in a Deconstructed PACS

Vendor Neutral Solutions Easily Integrate Into Any Workflow

Because aycan solutions are vendor neutral, integrating with multiple vendors in a workflow is no issue. aycan has been designing, integrating, and servicing Deconstructed PACS for over 25 years, helping customers achieve improved system performance and cost efficiencies. aycan offers an archive and viewer, as well as suitable workflows for unique customer needs.

aycan store PACS provides high reliability, quality and efficiency in medical data storage.

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For viewing, aycan offers aycan workstation, the multi-modality diagnostic and post processing workstation, and aycan web, a DICOM viewer for image distribution without client installation and configuration.

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aycan offers customers suitable workflows for their unique needs.

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Key Applications

aycan workstation is at home in any field of medicine and environment, large or small. Read below how aycan workstation, with its tools for general diagnostic reading and advanced post-processing, plus certified plug-ins is beneficial in your area.

Follow-Ups

With the FusionSync plug-in, the necessity for tedious and time-consuming manual adjustment of your view settings is history. The software automatically synchronizes the baseline with the follow-ups for spatially consistent viewing. The new bookmark manager lets you keep track of your findings and it even stores them into your PACS.

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Dental

With aycan workstation, dentists and orthodontists can reformat CT and MRI studies to provide a clear picture for their patients, e.g., measuring and illustrating atomic details of the oral cavity.
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Mammography

Advanced hanging protocols, optimized for mammography workflow, ensure a fast and consistent reading of studies.
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Nuclear

aycan workstation handles the drastically increasing number of images produced in nuclear medicine in a fast and reliable way, offering various post-processing tools for display.
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Oncology

aycan workstation with FusionSync, an automatic image-registration algorithm, provides fast, accurate, and automatic rigid image registration, which allows users to easily view multi-modal and follow-up series synchronized together for more efficient diagnoses.
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Vascular

aycan workstation, with the ayVessel plug-in, supports segmentation and calculation of center lines for vessel assessment, allowing you to conduct a preoperative planning easily yourself. All you need is the CT data.
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Teleradiology

Working from any remote location is easy, fast, and secure. Using the aycan mobile iPad app, just transfer images from the aycan workstation database via “drag & drop” to your iPad. You can also send images to another workstation or DICOM node using aycan workstation.
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Support & Resources

Version 4.00 Demo Video
Free 30 Day Trial

aycan workstation FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions

Which Apple macOS (OS X/Mac OS X) versions are supported?

  • aycan workstation 4.00.008 runs on macOS 14.7, 15.1, 15.2 and 15.3
  • aycan workstation 4.00.006 runs on macOS 12.7.5, 13.6, 14.5, 14.6 and 14.7
  • aycan workstation 4.00.004 runs on macOS 12.7.1, 12.7.4, 13.6.3, 14.0, 14.2.1 and 14.4
  • aycan workstation 4.00.002 runs on macOS 12.7, 13.5.1, 13.5.2 and 13.6
  • aycan workstation 4.00.000 runs on macOS 12.6.3, 12.6.4, 12.6.5, 13.2, 13.3, 13.3.1 and 13.4.1
  • aycan workstation 3.16.016 runs on macOS 12.6.2, 12.6.3, 13.1 and 13.2
  • aycan workstation 3.16.014 runs on macOS 12.6.1 and 13.0.1
  • aycan workstation 3.16.012 runs on macOS 12.3.1, 12.5, 12.5.1 and 12.6
  • aycan workstation 3.16.010 runs on macOS 10.15.7, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 12.0.1, 12.1, 12.3 and 12.5
  • aycan workstation 3.16.008 runs on macOS 10.15.7 and 11.4
  • aycan workstation 3.16.006 runs on macOS 10.14.6, 10.15.7, 11.1, 11.2.1, 11.3 and 11.4
  • aycan workstation 3.16.004 runs on macOS 10.14.6, 10.15.6 and 10.15.7
  • aycan workstation 3.16.002 runs on macOS 10.14.6, 10.15.4 and 10.15.5
  • aycan workstation 3.16.000 runs on macOS 10.14.6, 10.15.2 and 10.15.3
For information on older versions please contact our service.

What are the minimal system requirements for aycan workstation?

  • Hardware: Apple Mac with Intel processor or Apple Silicon
  • RAM: 8 GB (minimum; 16 GB recommended)
  • Hard drive space (SSD recommended): 10 GB
  • External DVD drive required for CD or DVD read or write access
  • Depending on usage, a faster processor, more RAM, and a larger hard drive are recommended
  • Operating system: Apple macOS; see adjoining for compatible versions

What are the meanings of the import error codes?

  • “Urf” – “Unreadable file / Could not be read.”
  • “SOPc” – “Not Allowed SOP Class UID”
  • “Exc” – “Exception”
  • “UFt” – “Unknown File Type” -> The parser was not able to get any information about the file.
  • “Ts” – “Not supported TransferSyntax” -> see Allowed Transfer Syntax below
  • “NDcm” – “Not a DICOM file” -> This message could appear if you configured aycan workstation to only import DICOM files (available under Preferences… -> Database -> “Import DICOM file format only (ignore …)”).
  • “Ukwn” – “File Type was detected but file did not have a known structure”

What is the Allowed Transfer Syntax?

  • Implicit VR Little Endian 1.2.840.10008.1.2
  • Explicit VR Little Endian 1.2.840.10008.1.2.1
  • Explicit VR Big Endian 1.2.840.10008.1.2.2
  • JPEG Process 14, Selection Value 1, Lossless 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.70
  • JPEG Baseline (Process 1), Lossy 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.50
  • JPEG Baseline (Process 2 & 4), Lossy 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.51
  • JPEG Lossless, Nonhierarchical (Process 14) 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.57
  • JPEG 2000 lossless only 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.90
  • JPEG 2000 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.91
  • JPEG-LS Lossless 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.80

What are the Allowed SOP Classes?

  • ImageStore
  • Radiotherapy
  • StructuredReport
  • KeyObjectDocument

Which date and time is used for SC images created with aycan workstation?

aycan workstation stores the actual date and time in the following tags:

  • Date of Secondary Capture (0018,1012)
  • Time of Secondary Capture (0018,1014)
  • Series Date of Secondary Capture (0008,0021)
  • Acquisition Date of Secondary Capture (0008,0022)
  • Acquisition Time of Secondary Capture (0008,0032)

Study date and time stamps are not touched.

If the user wants to display the date and time of the creation of the SC images, they can use the annotations tool in the aycan workstation preferences.

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