New 81-cm Color Diagnostic Review Display Receives FDA Clearance

A new, ultra high-definition, eight-megapixel display has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA; Silver Spring, MD USA) 510(k) market clearance.

The medical-grade widescreen review display is intended for medical imaging, Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) radiology reviews, and surgical suite applications. The display is factory calibrated to the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) grayscale function for luminance.


The MD322C8 NEC Display Solutions (Itasca, IL, USA) mid-brightness display includes an Open Pluggable Specification (OPS)-compliant option slot that can be used for NEC 3 Gbit/s High-Definition Serial Digital Interface (HD-SDI) input cards.

The display features automatic luminance control, simultaneous input viewing of two or four sources simultaneously, a contrast ratio of 1000:1, native resolution of 3840 x 2160, brightness of 350 cd/m², 14-bit 3-D internal programmable lookup tables (LUTs), two 10-bit inputs, four 10-bit High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) inputs, two Digital Visual Interface (DVI-D) digital-only inputs, a USB hub, and GammaCompMD quality assurance client software.

Art Marshall, product manager for professional desktop and medical displays at NEC Display, said, “The MD322C8 display is a high resolution color clinical display that delivers stellar picture quality,” Solutions. It gives medical imaging professionals a tool that enhances accuracy and productivity.”

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