Agfa Healthcare Selects Sun Systems to Power Integrated Healthcare
Imaging Solution
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Billboard Publicity Wire via Business Wire EON) November 27, 2007 --
Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) today
announced that Agfa
Healthcare has chosen to use Sun infrastructure for its IMPAX
digital imaging platform with the integrated visualization solution from Barco.
Agfa Healthcare will offer the FDA-approved solution on Sun Ultra™
40 M2 Workstations and a Sun Fire™ X2100 M2
server. Agfa Healthcare selected Sun systems following a successful
proof of concept trial conducted between Agfa and Barco that
demonstrated the use of multiple graphics cards to accelerate
server-based rendering, along with the high disk and network performance
required to provide rapid multi-user access to volumetric studies.
As part of Agfa’s IMPAX Suites for digital
imaging powered by Sun systems, the Voxar 3D Enterprise offering from
Barco provides an encompassing set of integrated visualization and
analysis tools designed to increase the clinical depth of the solution.
The solution will allow medical professionals to read large datasets
anywhere in the facility without compromising image quality or speed,
providing enhanced reading options in vessel analysis, cardiac analysis,
CT colonography and PET/CT fusion. Sun’s
systems were chosen to enable these clinical applications to run
smoothly on IMPAX.
“The clinical depth that this integrated
solution provides ultimately leads to more accurate diagnosis and better
patient care,” said Erkan Akyuz CTO and
Manager of the Imaging Informatics Business Unit, Agfa Healthcare. “By
choosing Sun systems as the platform for IMPAX and the Voxar 3D
Enterprise, we’re able to offer a highly
competitive solution that has great potential for improving on overall
care.”
“Sun is pleased to be able to strengthen our
relationship with Agfa to help create an advanced visualization server
and workstation platform,” said Joerg
Schwarz, Director of Global Healthcare and Life Sciences, Sun
Microsystems. “The performance, speed and
streamlined features of the Voxar 3D Enterprise solution are optimized
when running on Sun technology. We’re looking
forward to helping Agfa extend this powerful new solution to the medical
community.”
The solution running on Sun systems will be on display at the RSNA
conference on November 25-30 in Chicago. For more information, please
visit Agfa at booth 4106 (South Building –
Hall A). Sun will be at RSNA at booth 5155 (South Building –
Hall A), and more information is available at www.sun.com/healthcare.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the
Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation,
community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in
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