Sectra enters the US medical education market
The medical imaging IT company Sectra (STO: SECT B) has signed a partnership agreement with Touch of Life Technologies (ToLTech). Under the agreement, ToLTech will become a distributor of Sectra’s medical education solutions including the visualization table in the US and Canada. A new version of the Sectra Table will be presented publicly at the IMSH Congress in San Francisco, US on January 25-29.
As part of the distribution agreement, ToLTech will integrate their VH Dissector™ anatomical education platform and models into the Sectra Visualization Table. Accordingly, users will be able to complement the Sectra educational cases, visualized on radiology images, with ToLTech’s 3D and cross-sectional visualizations. This will give the user access to an interactive dataset of over 2,000 segmented and annotated anatomical structures for medical education and reference.
“The North American market has a large potential for our table. ToLTech has the experience and an extensive customer database in the medical education field and will not only will be the starting point of sales in that territory but will also help strengthen the product with a proven anatomical software”, says Karla Ramirez, Business Development Manager for the Sectra Visualization Table.
About Sectra Visualization Table
The Sectra Visualization Table is a large, multi-touch medical display with software that facilitates interaction with 3D images of the human body created by modern computer tomography or magnetic resonance cameras. Students are able to intuitively zoom in, rotate or cut into the visualized body without using a scalpel or destroying the subject. This means that the same image can be used repeatedly, and the students are able to study the impact of various illnesses on the anatomy in a manner that was not possible in teaching in the past. A unique function of the visualization table is that each university can download and create its own teaching files from its own clinical practices as well as using the preloaded collection of demonstration cases that comes with the table.
The visualization table is powered by a tailored Sectra PACS workstation. Sectra’s patented visualization techniques also allow immediate display of datasets of extreme size, such as high-resolution, full-body scans.
Sectra Visualization Table is used by universities and training hospitals in more than 15 countries throughout Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. It has been developed in cooperation with Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Visualization Center C, The Interactive Institute and Linköping University, Sweden.
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