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Availability of Compression for Computed Tomography; Integrated Slip-Ring Solution to be Jointly Developed with Schleifring und Apparatebau and Tokyo Electron Device Ltd.
SANTA CLARA, California; FURSTENFELDBRUCK, Germany and YOKOHAMA CITY, Japan, May 13:
/PRNewswire/ -- Samplify Systems, Inc., a real-time compression technology company, Schleifring und Apparatebau GmbH, the market leading slip- ring manufacturer to the medical and defense markets, and Tokyo Electron Device Ltd (TED), a leading manufacturer of Xilinx application boards, today announced an agreement for the joint development of the world's first slip- ring integrating Samplify's patented Prism CT(TM) signal compression technology for the medical computed tomography (CT) market.
Samplify's Prism CT(TM) compression engine is the first compression technology purpose-built to expand the capacity of CT data acquisition subsystems. By integrating signal compression technology into the slip-ring Schleifring und Apparatebau will not only meet the demands of next generation CT machines, but also offer a cost- effective drop-in replacement for existing machines. TED will supply customized inrevium(TM) application boards for both data acquisition on the rotating gantry, and a PCIe-based data termination card for the host workstation.
Computed tomography systems employ an x-ray source and an array of x-ray detectors, organized into rows and "slices," which rotate around the patient in a helical manner. With each x-ray detector feeding a high resolution analog to digital converter channel, high end CT machines require hundreds of thousands of detectors whose aggregate data requirement exceeds 10 Gbps. The slip-ring is the communication mechanism between the rotating electronics and the external workstation. Slip-rings are also employed in defense applications for rotating radar antenna arrays and for rotating tank turrets.
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