A flat panel display is the closest you can get to a full digital display, but LCDs still incorporate some key operating principles from analog technology. Several issues exist that make LCDs less than perfect for medical applications without appropriate compensation and correction.

Compared to standard commercial displays, medical displays offer significant advantages for diagnostic imaging. This paper lists 10 major arguments in favor of dedicated medical display systems.

Modern computers and GPUs provide substantial resources to process 3D datasets in real time. This document examines benchmarks to understand which GPU products are appropriate for medical imaging.

What makes one display better for viewing mammography images versus another? Careful evaluation of available mammography displays is just as important as assessing the acquisition device. This paper highlights the key purchasing considerations for mammography displays.

Selecting the appropriate display for a medical application is not an easy job. However, a number of recommendations exist that define the minimum specifications a medical display should fulfill.

CT reconstruction is extremely computationally demanding, which makes hardware acceleration desirable. The use of GPUs for non-graphics purposes has recently become popular due to their massive processing power. While the use of commodity GPUs for CT reconstruction has been proposed and discussed in the literature the quality of GPU accelerated CT reconstruction is not sufficiently addressed.

Many mammography reading rooms are straightforward working environments, lacking architectural or ergonomic design. But this is changing. Along with the growth of mammography screening, comes an increased interest in reading room design.

We are on the verge of a new display generation entering the medical imaging market. This paper outlines how color displays work and what their minimum requirements are. Furthermore, it addresses the clinical benefits of this new generation of displays.

Breast screening is challenging partly because of limitations in our ability to see small objects. With DuraLight Nova, a softcopy display offers the same luminance as traditional film.

Medical color displays are much more versatile than grayscale displays. But an important concern so far has been whether color displays really can offer the same diagnostic quality. This white paper describes the clinical performance of three display systems for lung nodule screening: a 3MP standard color display, Barco’s Coronis 3MP grayscale display and Barco’s new Coronis Fusion 6MP DL color display.

Is 8 to 12 bits better than 10 to 10 bits? Is the highest number of bits a guarantee for best image quality? This white paper starts with the basic concepts defining resolution and compares the image quality performance of each topology.

For medical diagnostic imaging, In-Plane Switching LCD technology offers a number of important advantages and related clinical benefits over other LCD technologies. The recent introduction of the IPS-Pro technology further builds on this momentum and brings a number of important improvements.

This paper presents some results from a recent study showing that the technical characteristics of medical displays lead to significant, measurable differences in radiologist performance.

Without any doubt, the transition to the current state–of-the-art medical grayscale displays brought a major improvement in image quality compared to CRT technology. However, LCD also brought some new issues such as missing or “stuck pixels”. This paper explains the missing pixel situation with current LCD technology.

The development of 32 and 64-slice scanners has enhanced the quality of CT imaging. However, radiologists are faced with the task of reviewing thousands of images. The solution is to move to a reading paradigm that takes advantage of the volumetric data routinely produced by MDCT scanners. Learn how MPR and 3D visualization can make the clinical workflow more efficient.

Breast screening and diagnostic workup increasingly use multiframe studies like ultrasound and breast tomosynthesis. To optimize reading of moving and changing images, Barco developed RapidFrame™.

Calibration and Quality Assurance tools require capital investments which create a substantial threshold in their acceptance and market proliferation. This paper highlights a unique and innovative business model that fits the need of every healthcare facility.

The DICOM standard is over two thousand pages long. Fortunately, what most people in a radiology department need to know about DICOM is not that complex. It is sufficient to know how it is used and some of the key concepts and terminology.

Although LCD technology has improved a lot over the past years, Liquid Crystal Displays still suffer from typical imperfections, such as non-uniform behavior across the screen area. Uniform Luminance Technology ensures that diagnostic images look DICOM-compliant from center to corner.

When considering a new medical display system, accuracy, effi ciency and compliance are likely to be the most decisive criteria. And with good reason. After all, dependable image representations are of vital importance in the healthcare imaging arena. But how can you recognize products that rank high on all these criteria? In this document, we have listed 10 golden rules to consider when investing in medical display equipment.