Acula is a small display company from Taiwan that is moving into medical after some history in security monitors. Exploiting its video knowledge and interfaces, it has developed a number of video monitors for endoscopy, laproscopy and surgery. The monitors are unusual in having loop-through on all the inputs – SDI, DVI-D and DisplayPort, so that multiple monitors can be used in the OR. There are 25″ and 27″ versions with ‘bezelless’ glass fronts which makes cleaning easier and the glass is treated for anti-glare.
The company was also showing a PCap 23.8″ FullHD monitor with PCap touch for medical and clinical review applications (one of three on show for that), although the company told us it was not sure that the touch system would work well with surgical gloves.
Acula is moving into Medical Monitors and attended ECR for the first time. Image:Meko
Beacon had a new 24″ class FullHD colour monitor with 900 cd/m² of brightness, before calibration. The monitor has edge-to-edge cover glass. There was also a new C24WT colour monitor with PCap touch that is usable for clinical review. It has an anti-glare treatment.
A new model that will be available in the summer is the C2781 which is a 27″ monitor with UltraHD for clinical review.
As we arrived, there was a big sign that pointed out that the Toshiba Medical business is now part of Canon, although the device group seemed to be still operating under the Toshiba name, although this was reinforced with signage for Canon. (Toshiba Confirms Consumer PC Exit)
Samsung had its usual big booth, but was not showing any monitors. The same applied to the Philips, although MMD has been promoting the Philips brand for a range of medical applications (although not, specifically diagonistics).
As usual, the big suppliers of radiology equipment, such as GE, had a range of monitors from Barco, Eizo and we even saw a couple of NEC units.
