High Definition Volume Rendering® Accelerates Changes in Anatomical Science and Education
Palo Alto and Mammoth Lakes, California, July 27, 2012
Fovia Medical, Inc., a world leader in volume rendering technology, and i-Human Patients® (“i-Human”), an innovative designer and developer of i-Human’s “virtual” medical training products and services, today announced a collaboration to incorporate High Definition Volume Rendering® in i-Human’s interactive medical education applications.
Fovia’s HDVR® Connect thin client-sever software will enable i-Human to incorporate unrivaled, high-resolution 3D images into their “virtual” patient cases, including those delivered via the web. Fovia’s HDVR® technology delivers on-the-fly, interactive, deep super-sampling quality and superior performance, which will become an integral part of i-Human’s active-learning-based training modules that depict functional anatomy and pathophysiological conditions.
i-Human’s virtual training 3D teaching modules will be dramatically more accessible with HDVR software embedded due to unparalleled accuracy levels and the savings in valuable development time; two areas in which mesh-based solutions are unable to compete. In the past, mesh-based teaching modules have taken years—even decades—to create, and they often lack essential elements necessary to educate students about pathologies and to demonstrate state-of-the-art surgical technologies.
“With Fovia’s HDVR Connect software, students using i-Human will be better able to analyze 3D anatomical structures and improve their clinical assessment skills. The ability to visualize CT and MR cases in real time will create a paradigm shift in teaching anatomy and pathology,” said Craig Knoche, President of i-Human Patients. “Partnering with Fovia is a natural evolution of our goal to build an internet-based “computer human” for the benefit of both students and educators,” he said.
Ken Fineman, Chief Executive Officer of Fovia stated, “We are very enthusiastic about our collaboration with i-Human, and commend its innovative approach to providing realistic interactive teaching modules for medical and scientific education. Fovia’s flexible, scalable solution is designed for use in a wide range of environments, and we are thrilled with this expanded application of our HDVR software.”
About Fovia, Inc.
Fovia has developed High Definition Volume Rendering®, a CPU-based, advanced visualization technology platform that delivers unparalleled quality, performance, scalability and flexibility. Fovia’s innovative HDVR® solution successfully overcomes the inherent limitations of other currently available imaging technologies, thereby enabling local, enterprise-wide and web-based volumetric rendering with affordable, off-the-shelf computers.
Fovia’s flagship product, HDVR® Connect, is a software-only, advanced visualization solution that includes all of the key attributes required by today’s vendors and their customers: performance, quality, scalability, anytime/anywhere image access, cost-effectiveness and flexibility. With HDVR Connect, OEM vendors can deliver unrivaled image quality and uncompromised performance, both locally and remotely, in 2D, 3D and 4D advanced volume visualization applications.
For additional information and to learn more about commercial, academic or research licensing, visit www.fovia.com.
Contact Information:
Fovia, Inc.
Shay Kilby
P: 866.3D.FOVIA or 415.290.1717
F: 650.618.2797
E: shay.kilby@fovia.com
About i-Human Patients®
i-Human is a cloud platform that provides interactive, engaging, self and team-directed active learning exercises with objective competency assessment. In particular, i-Human enables educators to author, publish, deliver and share rich interactive educational exercises that simulate a complete patient encounter and basic science-related media rich exercises. Specifically, i-Human enables . . .
• practicing patient assessment and diagnostic reasoning by simulating a complete patient encounter;
• self-directed, team-based and time-shifted learning with automated competency assessment;
• crowd sourced authoring and sharing of case content from the educator community; and
• learning of the basic sciences in a clinical context.
For additional information visit www.i-human.com.
Contact Information:
i-Human Patients®
Craig Knoche
P: 760.924.7813
E: info@i-human.com