PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - November 8, 2007) - Fovia Medical, Inc., a world leader in volume
rendering technology, today announced that Sandy Napel, Ph.D. and Geoffrey
D. Rubin, M.D., Co-Directors of the Stanford Radiology 3D Medical Imaging
Laboratory, have joined the company's Medical Advisory Board.
"Drs. Napel and Rubin are two of the world's foremost experts in 3D medical
imaging, and they will be invaluable to Fovia as we continue to develop and
expand the applications for our High Definition Volume Rendering®
technology," said Ken Fineman, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Fovia Medical, Inc.
Sandy Napel, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized Professor of
Radiology, Professor of Medicine-Informatics (by courtesy) and Professor of
Electrical Engineering (by courtesy) at Stanford University. He and Dr.
Rubin co-founded, and are currently Co-Directors of the Stanford Radiology
3D Medical Imaging Laboratory. Dr. Napel's focus has been on developing
diagnostic and therapy-planning applications and strategies for the
acquisition, visualization and interpretation of multi-dimensional medical
imaging data.
Geoffrey D. Rubin, M.D., is an internationally recognized expert in the
fields of pulmonary, bronchial and vascular imaging. He is a Professor of
Radiology and the Chief of the Cardiovascular Imaging Section at Stanford
University, as well as a co-founder and the current medical Co-Director of
Stanford's 3D Medical Imaging Laboratory. "I am pleased to accept Fovia's
invitation to serve on its Medical Advisory Board," said Dr. Rubin, "and I
look forward to working with Fovia to further develop advanced
visualization applications based on their High Definition Volume Rendering
software."
Both Dr. Napel and Dr. Rubin have published and lectured extensively on
medical imaging and volumetric rendering, and they currently serve on
numerous panels for peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Napel's and Dr. Rubin's
complete curriculum vitae can be found at
http://snapg4.stanford.edu/%7esnapel/SAN_CV.pdf and
http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/viewCV?facultyId=4076&name=Geoffrey_Rubin.
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.
Fovia, High Definition Volume Rendering, and HDVR are trademarks of Fovia,
Inc.
Contact Information: Media Contact:
Ken Fineman
Fovia Medical, Inc.
866.3D.FOVIA