Welcome to Advanced Imaging's 2007 Imaging Solutions of the Year!(Cover story)

For the eleventh year, Advanced Imaging presents its Solutions of the Year. And what a good year 2006 was for solving involved problems using sophisticated imaging technology.

In a switch, we are not organizing this year's submissions into "winners" and "runners-up," since it is extremely difficult to quantify such a diverse range of solutions relative to each other and determine a winner. What we did, was select the outstanding entrants in the key categories of medical; scientific; defense, security & law enforcement; machine vision; consumer & commercial; and enterta