March has been a banner month for medical imaging graphics card developer Matrox Graphics of Montreal. The firm has notched a series of deals with radiology companies throughout the world, placing its controller boards in a cornucopia of medical display products.
The firm has inked an agreement with Avenet Applied Computing of Vienna to provide its MED series of display controller boards with Avnet’s Eizo medical displays. The Matrox MED series of graphics cards include color and grayscale models with analog and digital display support, and a variety of display configurations ranging from 2 through 5 megapixels.
The company has also closed a deal with Rein EDV to add its MED series line to the Willich, Germany-based firm’s MeDiSol ME series of medical displays.
Image Systems of Minnetonka, MN, has elected to bundle the analog versions of the Matrox MED series with its line of analog CRT displays in both portrait and landscape orientation. In addition, the Matrox line of analog and digital LCD display controller boards will be offered as an option with Image Systems’ line of color and grayscale LCD displays.
A.C.T. Kern of Donaueschingen, Germany, will also be bundling the Matrox MED series with its WIDE medical display offerings. Eizo Nanao of Matto, Japan, has elected to offer the MED series with its RadiForce medical monitors. EuroPACS of Yorkshire, England, will be providing the MED series with the WIDE medical displays in its system solutions. Lastly, FIMI Phillips, a division of Royal Philips Electronics, has signed an agreement to provide the MED series with its displays for the medical market.
In other news, Matrox has entered into a technology partnership with Image Smiths to support the Germantown, MD-based developer’s VeriLum color and grayscale calibration tools across the entire MED line of display controller boards. The partnership arrangement will permit medical monitor calibration and maintenance to be conducted and managed across a variety of displays, configurations, and resolutions, according to Matrox.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersMarch 12, 2003
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