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Healthcare and Life Sciences

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Digital medical imaging technology such as CT and MRI is becoming an essential part of doctors'assessments in the medical field.
Developing specialized chips and workstations that can handle large quantities of high quality complex data at high speeds is very costly.
Fixstars' strength lies in being able to utilize and apply our image processing and parallel processing knowhow to provide Cell/B.E. solutions in the medical imaging field.

[Case1]Optimized CT scans for Cell/B.E.
Accelerated the image reconstruction processing of scaned data.
  • Achieved approximately 170 times improvement(0.28s) of a process that required 48 seconds to complete using an Intel Pentium®4 3.0GHz CPU.

Benefits

  • High-speed processing and flexibility
  • Reduced product development cost
  • Excellent scalability

Related Products and Services

Products
GigaAccel 180
The board is an accelerator board using the PowerXCell™ 8i.
Services
Cell/B.E. Programming Online Support
We will answer Cell programming questions on a dedicated message board.
Cell/B.E. Programming Porting
We provide porting services to enable existing applications to run effectively on the Cell architecture.
Custom Circuit Boards
We offer consultations for designing and producing custom circuit boards that use Cell/B.E.

Please contact us for details.