Barco launches industry standard medical display system ‘NIO®’ at SCAR 2003
SCAR 2003, Boston, MA, USA, June 7, 2003 - Barco is pleased to announce the introduction of NIO®, a brand-new line of industry standard grayscale display systems for day-to-day medical viewing. NIO® is Barco’s answer to meet the growing need for cost-effective yet high-quality medical display systems. With NIO®, Barco offers medical professionals a flexible solution for a multitude of medical imaging applications, including PACS, CT, MRI and angiography.
NIO® is a complete product line, available in 2MP, 3MP and 5MP resolutions and single- or dual-head configurations. NIO® systems combine a slim, high-bright grayscale LCD display featuring Backlight Output Stabilization (BLOS®), a high-speed display controller and NIOWATCH® software for continuous DICOM-compliant viewing.To ensure long-term image confidence, NIO® features Backlight Output Stabilization. Barco’s BLOS® technology guarantees fast power-up and continuously stabilizes the luminance output of the LCD’s backlight, which significantly improves the overall consistency of all NIO® display systems. NIO® display systems are driven by BARCOMED® high-speed display controllers, generating 256 simultaneous shades of gray out of a palette of 1024. In addition, the dual-head display controllers, featuring Barco’s proprietary AURA technology, offer ultra-fast image loading and realistic image representation. NIO® display systems come standard with NIOWATCH®, a software solution which optimizes the LCD panel for DICOM-compliant viewing. In a few easy steps, users can set their display system in accordance with DICOM part 14, the directive for viewing medical images. As a result, NIO® flat panel displays are perceptually linearized, ensuring an accurate image representation at all times.
“With Nio®, Barco markets quality, cost-effective solutions for standard medical viewing applications”, summarizes Lynda Domogalla, Barco’s Medical Imaging Systems Marketing Manager.
About Barco
Barco, an international company headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, is active in three key areas of imaging technology. Barco designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection. Barco has a network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents in almost 100 countries. Barco is quoted on Brussels/Euronext and is a
BEL 20 and a Next 150 company.
For more information, please refer to www.barcomedical.com
