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Medical Applications for Infra-Red Themography
Thermal cameras have been around a long time, they used to be big, expensive, slow, complicated and offered low resolution and accuracy. The latest technology however offers high resolution imaging with accurate temperature measurement, in a convenient easy to use, cost effective package. The cameras are now fast, light and portable and similar in operation to a video camera, their myriad of potential uses making them ideally suited to Medical Photography departments looking to offer additional added value services to their hospital.

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3D imaging for Advanced Wound Monitoring
The Eykona Wound Measurement System generates 3D images of wounds which can be measured. The System allows objective measurement of wound dimensions for accurate wound assessment including wound volume and the surface area of the wound bed. Monitoring of the healing process through sequential measurement of the wound helps quantify the efficacy of the treatment in use.

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Image Management: The Open Flexible Approach.
Most Image management systems used by Medical Illustration departments are proprietary databases, supplied by relatively small companies, this gives rise to many risks, particularly in an era of rapid development in digital media. FotoWare is different, it comes from company established in 1994 the which has supplied Digital Asset Management solutions throughout the world, with several million licenses sold..

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Job Management: The Efficient Way.
Although they may not be overtly aware of it, every department that does jobs for customers has a job management system. It often consists of pieces of paper, emails, spreadsheets verbal communications and sometimes ad hoc departmental databases. The systems are usually inefficient in terms of staff time, error prone in terms of duplicate manual data entry, and opaque in terms of managing time and deadlines. In order to address issues like these in Medical Illustration Departments, Anova Technology has developed Media Job Manager (MJM).

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