PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - November 6, 2007) - Fovia Medical, Inc., a world leader in volume
rendering technology, today announced a research license agreement that
will allow researchers in the 3D Laboratory at Massachusetts General
Hospital (MGH) to integrate Fovia's High Definition Volume Rendering®
technology into their advanced imaging research.
"For the past decade, the 3D Imaging Service at MGH has focused on
developing and delivering the highest quality in clinical 3D imaging for
assisting radiologists and clinicians in diagnosis and treatment planning,"
said Gordon J. Harris, PhD, Director of the 3D Imaging Service and the
Radiology Computer Aided Diagnostics Laboratory at MGH and an Associate
Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. "To do this, we have
invested heavily in research for post-processing and analysis of
multi-dimensional imaging data. By incorporating high-quality visualization
with our research application software, we hope to enhance the development
of new paradigms for interpretation of multi-dimensional medical images,
and ultimately improve patient care."
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 MGH,
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.
Dr. Harris is a consultant to Fovia Medical, Inc. and is a member 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