PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - October 31, 2007) - Fovia Medical, Inc., a world leader in volume
rendering technology, and Drs. Sandy Napel, Ph.D., Professor of Radiology,
and Geoffrey D. Rubin, M.D., Professor of Radiology, co-Directors of the
Stanford University Department of Radiology's 3D Laboratory, an
internationally recognized academic leader in 3D imaging, today announced a
research license agreement that will allow researchers in the 3D Laboratory
at Stanford to integrate Fovia's High Definition Volume Rendering®
technology into their advanced imaging research.
"Stanford has focused for many years on research regarding the acquisition,
post-processing and analysis of multi-dimensional imaging data," said Dr.
Napel. "By incorporating Fovia's technology into our research and
validation software, we hope to determine if we can accelerate our ability
to conceive, implement, and evaluate the utility of new paradigms for
interpretation of multi-dimensional medical images."
Fovia's HDVR™ technology has far lower computational costs, better
memory utilization and superior interactive image quality than currently
available solutions -- including expensive dedicated workstations and other
hardware-based approaches. These performance improvements stem from
proprietary, adaptive algorithms that provide interactive, supersampling
quality on desktop PCs and networked laptop computers, without using
specialized hardware or video cards.
"Fovia was founded to create the world's best quality, fully interactive,
volume visualization solution, and to do so with a 'software-only'
approach. One of our key objectives is to enable radiologists and other
physicians to perform advanced volume imaging on affordable, off-the-shelf
hardware so that 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. "We see the agreement with
Stanford, one of the pre-eminent 3D medical imaging academic institutions
in the world, as a crucial next step in the development deployment, and
validation of software-only volume imaging applications."
About Fovia Medical, Inc.
Fovia Medical, Inc., headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., 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.
About Stanford's Department of Radiology
The Stanford University Department of Radiology is committed to improving
healthcare through excellence in clinical care, research and teaching.
Having recently celebrated its 100th anniversary, the Department of
Radiology enjoys a superior community of scholars, physicians and staff
that is dedicated to the development and application of meaningful
knowledge and technology for the benefit of patient care.
Drs. Sandy Napel, Ph.D., and Geoffrey D. Rubin, M.D. are consultants to
Fovia Medical, Inc. and are members of its Medical Advisory Board.
Fovia, High Definition Volume Rendering, and HDVR are trademarks of Fovia,
Inc.
Contact Information: Media Contact:
Ken Fineman
Fovia Medical, Inc.
866.3D.FOVIA