Vienna – The Austrian Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization (VRVis) is pleased to receive another award.
Researcher Dr. Katja Buhler who cooperated with Agfa HealthCare was awarded the Science2business Award 2012 in the category Visual Computing. It was presented on the Life-Science-Success event on March 20th, 2012 in Vienna, supported by the Vienna Chamber of Commerce and the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour (BMWA), being worth the amount of 8.000 €.
The winner was honored for her research in the field of computer-aided medical diagnosis and surgical planning. The focus of Dr. Buhler’s work is the support of radiologists and surgeons by developing IT-solutions that improve the imaging data and make them even more useful. Images can be presented in a two or three-dimensional way at a specific point in time or over a certain period. This creates a valuable basis for the planning of neurosurgical procedures, or for the exact visualization of blood vessels, organs and bones.

“I am delighted with this award. We have been working already along with Agfa HealthCare in this field from the year 2000 on, and it’s nice when the research performance of the entire team gets this form of public recognition”, said the winner.

VRVis is Austria’s leading research and development company in the field of visual computing, and together with the Institute for Computer Graphics at the Vienna University of Technology it is a substantial part of one of the largest European research groups in the area of computer graphics.

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Max Theodor Felix von Laue (9 October 1879 – 24 April 1960) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals.

In May 1912 – so exactly 100 years ago -, Max von Laue passed a fine pencil beam of X-rays through a copper sulphate crystal and recorded the diffraction pattern on a photographic plate. The resulting photographic plate showed a large number of well-defined spots that were arranged in intersecting circles around the central beam.
He then went on to develop a law that connected the scattering angles and the size and orientation of the spacings in the crystal, and was justly awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1914 for this.

Max von Laue’s discovery showed X-rays were electromagnetic waves similar to light and of a short wavelength. Thanks to those diffraction studies, it became possible to measure the wavelength of X-rays and also to study the inner structure of materials.

His work led to a deeper understanding of the structure of our world, and he made significant contributions to the scientific understanding of how applied magnetic fields affect superconductivity.

You can use NFC as a no-fuss way to configure a portable digital X-ray unit as you move it through a hospital and get it to link up with different patients’ electronic medical records or set it to transfer images to a nearby laptop or workstation….

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“The higher-resolution display and faster 4G speed will only spur on the wave of referring doctors and radiologists who are beginning to depend on these mobile devices for access to images when not near a workstation,” said David Hirschorn, MD, director of radiology informatics at Staten Island University Hospital and a research fellow in radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School….

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