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Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

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Archive > September, 2004 Vol. V, No. 9

Thinking of Buying...Image Processing

The newest systems enhance images and can help you improve risk management and documentation.

Scotty Farris

Video images in the OR may come from several sources: the endoscope camera, a surgical field camera mounted in the handle of the surgical lamp, and other digital images stored on digital media (CD, DVD) or an outside source. In the past, the signal could have been analog along its path from camera to monitor, requiring analog-to-digital conversion along the way, possibly degrading image resolution.

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