FEBRUARY 10--Actuality Systems Inc., (Burlington, MA) will demonstrate its Perspecta 3D System for advanced imaging of CT, PET, and MR data at the HIMSS 2003 conference (February 9-13, San Diego, CA). "Today, most medical imaging systems acquire 3-D data that needs to be compressed to be viewed in standard displays terminals," said Gregg Favalora, the company's founder and chief technical officer. "Perspecta projects 100 times more information than conventional 2-D displays found in hospital reading rooms. Our interviews with physicists, radiologists, and practitioners of nuclear medicine imaging have revealed that Perspecta is expected to simplify tumor localization, historical patient reviews, surgical planning, and navigation."
The Perspecta 3D System consists of a unique 360° spatial display and associated Perspecta software. It enables users to render high-resolution spatial images that can be viewed from any angle as the user moves around the display. The display itself illuminates a record 100 million volume pixels, or "voxels," within a clear polycarbonate dome.
Typical medical applications for the Perspecta 3D System include nuclear medical imaging, such as using PET scans to locate tumors; medical intervention, such as stent insertion into blood vessels; mammography and biopsy, such as having 3-D feedback on the precise location of a biopsy needle.
