PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - November 19, 2007) - Fovia Medical, Inc., a world leader in volume
rendering technology, today announced that Gordon Harris, Ph.D., Director
of the 3D Imaging Service and the Radiology Computer Aided Diagnostics
Laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Associate
Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, has joined the company's
Medical Advisory Board.
"We are very excited about having Dr. Harris join our Medical Advisory
Board. His clinical and research experience will be invaluable to the
company and the technology," stated Ken Fineman, President and Chief
Executive Officer of Fovia Medical, Inc.
Dr. Harris received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in
Radiation Health Sciences and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from
Lafayette College. After graduate school, Dr. Harris spent one
post-doctoral year and two years as junior faculty at Johns Hopkins School
of Medicine. After four subsequent years as Director of the Neuroimaging
Research Laboratory at New England Medical Center, Dr. Harris joined the
faculty at MGH and began a new 3D Imaging Service for clinically oriented
imaging. His primary research interests include structural and functional
brain imaging research in psychiatric and neurologic illnesses including
Autism, Alzheimer's Disease, Huntington's disease, stroke, and Alcoholism,
as well as quantitative tracking of tumors for clinical care and clinical
trials. Dr. Harris has published and lectured extensively on medical
imaging, and currently serves on numerous panels for peer-reviewed
journals.
"Enhanced 3D visualization technology has the potential to significantly
advance our ability to diagnose potential problems more precisely and
efficiently -- ultimately improving the care we can offer to patients,"
stated Dr. Harris. "I look forward to working with Fovia Medical,
particularly in the area of computer aided diagnosis."
About Fovia Medical, Inc.
Fovia Medical, Inc., a subsidiary of Fovia, Inc., is headquartered in Palo
Alto, California and is an international leader in volume rendering, an
advanced technique for visualizing and analyzing large volumes of data in
three dimensions.
Fovia's HDVR solution overcomes the many limitations of currently available
imaging technologies, therefore enabling physicians to take full advantage
of 3D imaging as part of everyday patient care. Selected features and
benefits of Fovia's proprietary solution include:
-- High Definition Volume Rendering
-- On-the-fly, interactive supersampling with off-the-shelf hardware
-- Software-only solution that is faster than specialized hardware (ASIC)
and video card-based approaches
-- Interactive rendering of large datasets without data downsampling
-- Non-compromised remote rendering over the internet or wireless
networks
-- Interactive rendering without preprocessing
-- Scalability with more users, larger datasets, bigger rendering planes,
multiple CPUs and clustering
-- Instant segmentation
-- Modification of the transfer function on-the-fly
-- On-the-fly auto-navigation for fly-through
-- Subvoxel precision for 3D measurement
-- Compatibility with Macintosh/Windows/Linux platforms
Fovia has designed its HDVR software engine to be easily integrated into
various original equipment manufacturers' offerings, therefore allowing
PACS companies, imaging modality manufacturers and other medical imaging
OEMs to easily, quickly and cost-effectively integrate a best-of-breed 3D
solution.
For additional information, visit
www.fovia.com.
Fovia, High Definition Volume Rendering, and HDVR are trademarks of Fovia,
Inc.
Contact Information: Media Contact:
Ken Fineman
Fovia Medical, Inc.
866.3D.FOVIA