Monday, October 22, 2018
Visitors to Stand H57 in Hall 10 at MEDICA (12-15 November) can experience innovative solutions from Sony that enhance hospitals’ imaging workflow in Full HD, 4K, 3D and HDR.
Alongside NUCLeUS™, our smart integrated clinical workflow platform, we’re showing latest product highlights from Sony for image capture, display and documentation.
“This year at MEDICA we are emphasising Sony’s industry-leading position as a strategic technology partner to clinicians, integrators and modality manufacturers” says Dimitry van Kemenade, Head of Marketing, Sony Professional Solutions Europe. “Our continual innovation in light-to-display technologies – spanning a wide range of smart integrated solutions – is focused on delivering tangible clinical benefits plus significant workflow efficiencies for hospitals.”
Smart solutions for the digital OR: NUCLeUS™
A must-see at MEDICA, NUCLeUS™ is Sony’s smart integrated clinical workflow platform. Scalable, future-proof and vendor neutral, NUCLeUS™ streamlines the display, recording and distribution of high-resolution surgical images with uncompromised quality and exceptional flexibility. Customers across Europe, including Franciscus Gasthuis & Vlietland in Netherlands, the leading Swedish teaching hospital - Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden or University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium, have already invested in NUCLeUS™.
Surgical content captured in the operating room can be recorded to a central server for training and education purposes, or routed in real time over hospitals’ current network infrastructure to consulting rooms and other areas of the hospital campus. The power of NUCLeUS™ is expanded further with a range of smart apps, including a telestration application being demonstrated at MEDICA this year.
4K3D adds greater clarity
Sony is underlining its industry leadership in 4K3D imaging solutions, with an exciting demonstration of the potential of 4K3D image acquisition for applications including heads-up microsurgery.
Currently under development, we’re showing our advanced technology inside the world’s first native 4K 3-chip external camera designed specifically for use with surgical microscopes in the Operating Room. By combining 2 of these cameras we can acquire 3D images from a microscope in full 4K resolution and show the resulting 4K3D image on a large 4K3D 55” medical monitor ideal for heads up surgery.
Enhancing surgical imaging workflow
MEDICA also offers the first opportunity to see an ultra-high sensitivity new Full HD 2-piece medical camera system that’s ideal for surgical microscopy applications including neurology and ophthalmology. The new camera also incorporates HDR functionality and will be available from January 2019.
We are also demonstrating how HDR (High Dynamic Range) technology can complement clinical imaging applications with a brand new 27” 4K medical monitor that offers impressive detail, wide colour gamut, and 800cd/m2 high brightness. Offering hospitals an easy, cost-effective step to enhanced surgical workflow, the new monitor can also upscale Full HD content from surgical imaging modalities to 4K resolution. The new monitor will be available from April 2019.
Documentation solutions
Clinicians worldwide depend on Sony’s reliable, high-performance medical recorders and printers to enhance ultrasound and surgical workflows with seamless integration into imaging systems from leading modality manufacturers. At MEDICA this year we’re presenting our full range of solutions to support clinical diagnosis and documentation as well as medical training and education.
Highlights include our space-saving wireless printing solution that allows convenient, cable-free connection between a modality and off-cart printer. Meanwhile the capabilities of the HVO-4000MT 4K3D medical-grade video recorder are enhanced with updated firmware that adds DICOM modality worklist support as well as an HD input.
Looking to the Future: VR for Training & Education
Virtual Reality (VR) offers exciting possibilities to enhance the quality of medical training and education. We’re demonstrating a conceptualised future Virtual Reality (VR) environment enabled by NUCLeUS™, allowing surgical images from multiple sources to be synchronised and combined with patient data and other information. This allows creation of an immersive simulation, enabling other surgeons and clinical experts to ‘participate’ remotely in surgical interventions while reducing the risk of patient infection. Additional to the VR demo, the Powerful demonstration of NUCLeUS™ smart application Telestration is available that allows surgeons to communicate in real time with other clinicians across the hospital campus.
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*NUCLeUS™ is a product of eSATURNUS NV. eSATURNUS NV is a Sony group company.
About Sony
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