PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - October 29, 2007) - Fovia Medical, Inc., a leader in 3D graphics
and volume visualization technology, today announced the release of its
third generation High Definition Volume Rendering® software. Fovia's
thin-client engine allows users to take full advantage of multi-core
processors and 64-bit architecture, resulting in a dramatic boost in system
performance and allowing interactive HDVR™ rendering of the largest
datasets generated by today's medical imaging equipment.
Fovia's software-only solution has unparalleled interactive image quality,
superior performance, and better memory utilization than other products
currently available -- including expensive, hardware-based approaches. The
superior quality and performance of HDVR is the result of proprietary
algorithms that provide interactive, supersampling quality on desktop and
networked laptop computers, without using specialized hardware or video
cards. Fovia's HDVR engine has been ported to Mac OS X Leopard, now
offering full native 64-bit support enabling applications to take complete
advantage of 64-bit processing.
"Fovia's objective is to develop and deliver the highest-quality, fully
interactive volume visualization product. Our software-only, thin-client
solution enables radiologists and other physicians to perform advanced
volume imaging on affordable, off-the-shelf hardware so the massive amount
of imaging data acquired by modern scanners can be more effectively
utilized and shared," said Ken Fineman, President and Chief Executive
Officer of Fovia Medical, Inc. "Leopard's 64-bit power, and its ability to
fully utilize the strength of the newest multi-core processors, makes
Fovia's High Definition Volume Rendering engine ideally suited for use in
the Leopard environment, representing an important next step in the
deployment and usage of software-only volume imaging applications."
"Leopard delivers full native 64-bit support to enable applications to take
complete advantage of 64-bit processing while still running side by side
with existing 32-bit applications and drivers," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's
vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "We're thrilled that Fovia
will take advantage of Leopard's native 64-bit support to speed up
rendering of the vast datasets created by the latest medical imaging
equipment."
About Fovia Medical, Inc.
Fovia Medical, Inc., a subsidiary of Fovia, Inc., is headquartered in Palo
Alto, California and is an international leader in volume rendering, an
advanced technique for visualizing and analyzing large volumes of data in
three dimensions.
Fovia's HDVR solution overcomes the many limitations of currently available
imaging technologies, therefore enabling physicians to take full advantage
of 3D imaging as part of everyday patient care. Selected features and
benefits of Fovia's proprietary solution include:
-- High Definition Volume Rendering
-- On-the-fly, interactive supersampling with off-the-shelf hardware
-- Software-only solution that is faster than specialized hardware (ASIC)
and video card-based approaches
-- Interactive rendering of large datasets without data downsampling
-- Non-compromised remote rendering over the internet or wireless
networks
-- Interactive rendering without preprocessing
-- Scalability with more users, larger datasets, bigger rendering planes,
multiple CPUs and clustering
-- Instant segmentation
-- Modification of the transfer function on-the-fly
-- On-the-fly auto-navigation for fly-through
-- Subvoxel precision for 3D measurement
-- Compatibility with Macintosh/Windows/Linux platforms
Fovia has designed its HDVR software engine to be easily integrated into
various original equipment manufacturers' offerings, therefore allowing
PACS companies, imaging modality manufacturers and other medical imaging
OEMs to easily, quickly and cost-effectively integrate a best-of-breed 3D
solution.
For additional information, visit
www.fovia.com.
Fovia, High Definition Volume Rendering, and HDVR are trademarks of Fovia,
Inc.
Contact Information: Media Contact:
Ken Fineman
Fovia Medical, Inc.
866.3D.FOVIA