Grayscale Diagnostic Display Systems Provide Enhanced Performance

Medical imaging specialist Barco (Kortrijk, Belgium) has launched the next generation of its cost-effective NIO grayscale diagnostic display systems. The new NIO grayscale display systems are available in 2MP, 3MP, and 5MP resolutions.

The next-generation NIO comes with Barco's MediCal QAWeb service, an innovative softcopy QA system that brings a new level of transparency to the QA routine. MediCal QAWeb is a very complete secured online service system, providing maximum diagnostic confidence and uptime of PACS display systems by providing automated digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) calibration, QA, display asset management, problem-solving, and reporting. With MediCal QAWeb, Nio calibration, and QA settings can be changed remotely without having to be present at the workstation.

The display systems are driven by a high-speed BarcoMed Nio display controller, featuring Barco's proprietary Aura technology. The system features 64-bit peripheral component interconnect (PCI) performance and image download speeds up to 230 MB per second.

Nio systems can also be combined with the BarcoMed Nio PCI Express display controller, which provides improved graphics performance and image download speeds up to 320 MB/second. This 10-bit display controller renders the complete data set with 1024 simultaneous levels of gray.

Because of a unique technology cooperation agreement with ATI (Markham, Ontario, Canada), a designer and manufacturer of innovative 3D graphics acceleration technology, Barco offers NIO users the opportunity to upgrade to ATI's powerful display controllers featuring FireGL technology. This makes the use of advanced visualization techniques, such as 3D imaging, OpenGL, and DirectX readily available.

Barco's Backlight Output Stabilization (BLOS) provides fast power-up and continuous DICOM conformance of the liquid crystal display's (LCD) luminance output. Furthermore, Barco carefully color matches the displays in every multi-head Nio display system to guarantee that the color characteristics of all displays in the system are consistent. Finally, Nio display systems are equipped with a protective front cover that protects the valuable LCD against damage from intensive use in clinical rooms.

Nio 5MP display systems are now also available in BlueBase and ClearBase viewing modes, allowing radiologists to select the color temperature best suited for their application. The systems are compliant with the most stringent medical device standards, including FCC B, CE 0120, and UL 60601 approvals.


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