New high-end imaging graphic cards with OpenGL support; move welcomed by medical display industry

Emageon Inc., a leading provider of enterprise visual medical systems to hospitals and healthcare networks, announced enhancements to its advanced visualization software allowing radiologists and treating physicians to better use volume rendering and 3D navigation in one native, integrated, open- standards package. This improvement means physicians can utilize both 2D and 3D tools without having to resort to third-party software and proprietary hardware to analyze medical images - offering time-savings and increased productivity.

"We are excited about delivering this new enhancement, which provides high quality, real-time 3D medical images using off-the-shelf, OpenGL graphics cards. These new cards are powerful enough to support volume rendering and ray tracing, which is a more accurate algorithm than most other 3D workstations use today," said Mark Gehring, Emageon's Chief Technical Officer. "This feature integrates directly with our existing workflow and eliminates the need for single-task 3D workstations." Neal Templeton, M.D., Emageon's Medical Director added, "This technique produces highly realistic and detailed images of internal anatomic structures, allowing physicians to speed up diagnosis and treatment. This new application of advanced visualization is an excellent way for physicians to productively deal with ever increasing amounts and complexity of image data."

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