3D Volume Rendering and Visualization Solution is Enabling Advanced Research
on the Integration of 3D into PACS
CHICAGO, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
(NASDAQ: MRCY) announced the Visage(TM) CS Thin Client/Server, the most
innovative server-based solution for advanced volume rendering and 3D
visualization for OEM medical imaging system suppliers, at the 91st Scientific
Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America
(RSNA). The company also announced installations at the Baltimore VA Medical
Center, affiliated with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and
another internationally recognized medical research facility, where Visage CS
PACS systems are enabling progressive research on the integration of 3D into
PACS (picture archiving and communications system) solutions.
Visage CS Thin Client/Server provides full volume rendering and 3D
workstation capabilities on thin clients anywhere in the hospital enterprise,
enabling standard PCs and laptops to act as fully functional medical
workstations. All medical image data processing and visualization is performed
on a central server, and the resulting screen content is streamed to the thin
client via a standard network connection.
Visage CS allows multiple clients throughout the enterprise to
concurrently access and visualize multiple independent data sets. The data
explosion in medical imaging, now hastened by the deployment of multi-slice CT
(computed tomography), functional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), and PET/CT
scanners, has created the need to provide ubiquitous, advanced 3D
visualization with full functionality to existing infrastructure computers
within the enterprise.
"The biggest barrier to the transition to 3D imaging has been the lack of
integration of this capability into PACS workstations," said Eliot Siegel,
M.D., Professor and Vice Chairman of Information Systems, Department of
Diagnostic Radiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Chief of
Radiology, VA Maryland Healthcare System. "In the next few years, advanced 3D
visualization, image processing, and analysis will be performed centrally,
with resources shared across the network."
The Visage CS Thin Client/Server architecture provides all the
capabilities of a specialized medical workstation anywhere in the enterprise.
The processing and visualization can be shared effectively by many standard
PCs or laptops that are limited in terms of memory, processing power, or
graphics acceleration. Thin clients can be quickly and easily integrated into
the customer's system framework, increasing the value of their systems and
their competitiveness.
"Visage CS is the only industry-standard, multi-GPU-based, multi-client,
fully scalable client/server technology on the market today," said Marcelo
Lima, Vice President of Commercial Imaging and Visualization, Mercury Computer
Systems. "Our OEM customers can quickly and cost-effectively integrate and
deploy this capability into their modality or PACS systems today -. providing
instant 3D functionality across the enterprise .- as well as benefit from the
future value a standards-based solution inexorably provides over time."
Mercury is 3D to the Core
Today's high-resolution imaging scanners are creating an explosion of
data. Mercury has architected its entire product line for medical OEMs to be
3D to the Core .- a revolutionary new platform designed to empower the
transformation of the diagnostic workflow to fully integrated, seamless 3D
visualization.
Mercury will hold demonstrations of its Visage CS Thin Client Server
technology and other 3D to the Core imaging and visualization software and
systems solutions, including the Visage WS Workstation, Visage VR Volume
Rendering, Visage RT Image Reconstruction and Visage PACS, at RSNA November 27
through December 1. Visit Mercury in the South Building, Hall A, Section 3,
Booth #1912 at RSNA, or online at http://www.mc.com/RSNA2005 for more information on
Mercury's 3D to the Core imaging solutions.
About Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) is the leading provider of
high-performance embedded, real-time digital signal and image processing
solutions. Mercury's solutions play a critical role in a wide range of
applications, transforming sensor data to information for analysis and
interpretation. In military reconnaissance and surveillance platforms the
Company's systems process real-time radar, sonar, and signals intelligence
data. Mercury's systems are also used in state-of-the-art medical diagnostic
imaging devices including MRI, PET, and digital X-ray, and in semiconductor
imaging applications including photomask generation and wafer inspection.
Mercury provides advanced 3D image processing and visualization software and
optimized systems to diverse end markets including life sciences, geosciences,
and simulation. The Company also provides radio frequency (RF) products for
enhanced communications capabilities in military and commercial applications.
Based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Mercury serves customers in North
America, Europe and Asia through its direct sales force and a network of
subsidiaries and distributors. Visit Mercury on the web at http://www.mc.com.
Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, as that
term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
including those relating to the Visage CS Thin Client/Server. You can identify
these statements by our use of the words "may," "will," "should," "plans,"
"expects," "anticipates," "continue," "estimate," "project," "intend," and
similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
projected or anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not
limited to, general economic and business conditions, including unforeseen
weakness in the Company's markets, effects of continued geo-political unrest
and regional conflicts, competition, changes in technology, and methods of
marketing, delays in completing engineering and manufacturing programs,
changes in customer order patterns, changes in product mix, continued success
in technological advances and delivering technological innovations, continued
funding of defense programs, the timing of such funding, changes in the U.S.
Government's interpretation of federal procurement rules and regulations,
market acceptance of the Company's products, shortages in components,
production delays due to performance quality issues with outsourced
components, and inability to fully realize the expected benefits from
acquisitions or delays in realizing such benefits, challenges in integrating
acquired businesses, and achieving anticipated synergies, and difficulties in
retaining key customers. These risks and uncertainties also include such
additional risk factors as are discussed in the Company's recent filings with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Quarterly Report on
Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2005. The Company
cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking
statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company undertakes no
obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or
circumstances after the date on which such statement is made.
Contacts:
Kathy Donahue, Public Relations Manager
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
978-967-1126 / kdonahue@mc.com
Wayne St. Amand, Vice President
Greenough Communications
617-275-6519 / wstamand@greenoughcom.com
Visage is a trademark of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. Product and
company names mentioned may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of
their respective holders.
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CONTACT:
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Communications, +1-617-275-6519, or wstamand@greenoughcom.com,
for Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
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