Barco, a global technology company which is a recognised healthcare imaging specialist is gearing up to present its new diagnostic color display with a 5.8 megapixel resolution, suitable for general radiology as well as breast imaging, including breast tomosynthesis.

The new imaging system comes with color calibration technology for consistent images, to ensure the accuracy of the display and to support confident diagnostic decisions. The high-resolution color display is cleared for mammography and is equipped with smart workflow tools. Many radiologists will order supplementary imaging exams to see additional detail and get a more holistic view of a patient’s condition.

Like most of Barco’s medical displays, Nio Color 5MP comes with a set of tools to help radiologists work smarter, not harder. These include features for dimming of auxiliary displays, enhancing visualization of details, and personalizing display settings, such as Clearbase or BlueBase, switchable on the same display, even per radiologist.

With its 5.8 megapixel resolution, the new Nio offers more pixels than traditional mammography displays, so you can see more of the image. Its aspect ratio is a perfect fit for tall X-ray images – especially for the MLO view in mammography – resulting in less panning and zooming for a better reading experience. It also comes with Barco’s SpotView technology to get a closer look at a particular region of interest, said the company.

Just like the DICOM standard ensures consistent grayscales across displays, color images need additional monitoring, correction and calibration too in order to render them in a meaningful way.

Its sensor technology combined with MediCal QAWeb for automated calibration and quality assurance, makes sure every image is displayed to perfection in a highly regulated environment. Enabling visualization of both general radiology and mammography images, Nio Color 5MP eliminates the need for separate workstations. This leads to reductions in display cost, real estate, and the operational expenditure required to maintain an enterprise-wide display fleet. Barco’s Nio Color 5MP displayed at ECR in Vienna, 1-5 March, hall X3, booth 1. Barco, is active in more than 90 countries with 3,500 employees worldwide. Barco posted sales of 1.102 billion euro in 2016.