What They Say
Eizo has released a new 32″ UltraHD monitor that can be used in MRI equipment because of special shielding technology. The shielding stops the high magnetic fields from the MRI machine from distorting the display image and also prevents fields from the monitor causing interference with the MRI process.
What We Think
I know that Eizo understands the significance of fields on monitors. In the late ’80s (if I remember correctly), I worked for the firm and went to Hannover to help out with the CeBIT booth. The company had developed 70Hz CRT monitors that were being promoted as ‘flimmer frei’ (flicker free). However, between one CeBIT and the next, the authorities had put in a new mains power system that was creating big fields directly under the booth that Eizo had used for several years. As a result, all the monitors were exhibiting terrible flicker!
Of course, such an event, costs a fortune and the problem could have caused a PR disaster. Fortunately, one of my staff had good experience of this kind of problem and knew the major UK supplier of ‘mu metal’. We ordered enough to lay it under the whole booth at a material cost of around €20K, again if I remember correctly. We got a couple of technicians to drive the metal across the continent and there were long sessions to put it under the booth. We didn’t eliminate the problem entirely, but we did mitigate it enough to avoid the PR disaster! (Thanks for indulging my pleasure in telling this story) (BR)
