Matrox Imaging launches capture and display board for medical imaging

November 28, 2005, Chicago, Illinois - Today at this year's RSNA show in Chicago, Illinois, Matrox Imaging is announcing the Matrox Vio SDI, a versatile video capture and display board that delivers the superior quality and definition of state-of-the-art broadcast video to medical imaging. "Traditional NTSC/PAL no longer meets the needs of many medical imaging applications," explains Fabio Perelli, Product Manager at Matrox Imaging. "The Matrox Vio SDI is the key for visible light modalities that want to take advantage of high-definition video technology."

The Matrox Vio SDI is a single platform for handling new high-definition or traditional video standards in Serial Digital Interface (SDI) or analog form. Some of its key features include digital or analog video acquisition, low-latency digital and analog video outputs synchronized to the video input and graphics overlay composition. The Matrox Vio SDI uses a x4 PCI Express® (PCIe®) host interface, enabling it to stream high-definition video to the host PC for archiving or from the host PC for playback. Software development kits, available separately, provide support for Microsoft® Windows® XP and eventually Linux.

Matrox Vio SDI will be available by the end of Q1 2006.

About Matrox Imaging

Established in 1976, Matrox Imaging is a leading designer of PC-based hardware and software for machine vision, image analysis, medical imaging, and video surveillance. Products include frame grabbers, vision processors, imaging platforms, smart cameras, and development software. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Matrox is a privately held company with offices in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and Hong Kong. For more company information, visit: www.matrox.com/imaging/en/about/.

For more information, please contact:

Sarah Sookman
Media Relations Specialist
Matrox Imaging
1055 St. Regis Blvd.
Dorval, Quebec, H9P 2T4
Canada
Telephone: (514) 685-2630 ext. 2753
Fax: (514) 822-6273
imagingmr@matrox.com