CHIRON INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE APPROACH FOR HOME, MOBILE AND CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS
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BARCO

website: www.barco.com

Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops visualization solutions for a variety of selected professional markets: medical imaging, media & entertainment, infrastructure & utilities, traffic & transportation, defense & security, education & training and corporate AV. In these markets Barco offers user-friendly imaging products that optimize productivity and business efficiency. Its innovative hard- and software solutions integrate all aspects of the imaging chain, from image acquisition and processing to image distribution, management, and visualization. Barco has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, America and Asia-Pacific. The company (NYSE, Euronext Brussels: BAR) is active in more than 90 countries and employs 3,500 staff worldwide. In 2008 Barco posted sales of 742 million euro.

In the project: Barco will mainly address the MEDICAL plane of the Chiron reference architecture, focusing on providing better and more user centric visualisation solutions to the Doctors. This requirement will drive Barco contribution to WP1 on system requirements and architecture design. Innovative solutions associated to new hardware and software concepts will then be explored to specifically address high fidelity image rendition (T5.4), quality assurance (T5.5) and accurate positioning (T2.4) for medical displays. Demonstrators will be developed and user tests will be organised in WP7 to evaluate their integration in and contribution to the Chiron system.

Related expertise: The Medical Imaging Division (MID) of Barco develops high-precision medical display systems to bring accuracy and efficiency to a broad range of healthcare disciplines, including radiology, mammography, surgery and clinical review imaging. Barco’s full line of color and grayscale diagnostic displays, display controllers and softcopy Quality Assurance (QA) tools facilitate confident diagnoses while guaranteeing perfect image quality over time and across displays. Barco has been or is still involved in numerous European and regional R&D projects related to healthcare applications, namely ITEA CANTATA, IWT CIMI, IWT MEVIC and IWT P-MELODIE.

Contact person for the project:

Tom Kimpe: Tom.kimpe@barco.com

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