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Show May Save Lives, Millions of Dollars Speed of Computers With r, By S.W. Bell one-24t- 38, second. The improvement could save millions of dollars by speeding manu- school is one of sees. Assoc ioted Press a picture far more complex than dia- previous grams, producing exact representations of almost anything. A brain surgeon visiting Albany image recently took a look at a created by the system from 64 CAT scans of a patients brain. Based on the information he had had earlier, the surgeon had decided not to operate on a brain tumor in the young woman, who subsequently died. computer-generate- d 3-- Congratulates Our Top Producers NANCY TAUFER 272-946- 3 D. Pate, GRI, CRS, CRB 1978 Salesperson of the Year & Lifetime Member Million Dollar Club of the Salt Lake Board of REALTOR'S $2,000,000 Producer osei photo An NMR sells for up to $4 million, a CAT scanner for about $2 million. With the $350,000 INSIGHT system, doctors can look at their paform they are tients scans in the used to working with. And there is less need for exploratory surgery because almost anything a doctor could discover from surgery he can see in the model, Phoenix officials said. "Our goal is to make it a standard option" on all scanning machines, said Kumar. He said that in the next two years the price should be cut in half as mass production starts and its size is reduced. 3-- roQloi : I monitor showing human head. Computer enables doctor to see entire head instead of single slice created by CAT scan. Alvin L. Ring, right, president of Phoenix Data Systems, and Dr. Donald J. Meagher, INSIGHT engineer, sit next to enviroujpc Joan h another former faculty member at Rensselaer, and Dr. Gregory M. Hunter, 35, who was formerly at Atari. It's a totally new methodology that attacks the problem of solid representation, Meagher said. His method permits a computer to compare data with more efficiency, drastically cutting the time it takes to perform such tasks. This is the only machine around that will allow you to move in and cut and see it as it really is," said Hunter, stressing the image is not a diagramatic representation, but a picture as close to the real thing as possible on a computer screen. The company plans to market the machine to the medical field first. With 2,500 Computerized Axial Tomography scanners in operation and a projected 900 per year expected to be installed for the next few years, sales vice president Rak Kumar said the companys goal is to see that each scanner has INSIGHT. The system its prototype iS about the size of several tall filing is also compatible with cabinets the nuclear magnetic resonance scanner. An NMR takes CAT scans one step further by not using radiation to produce internal views of the body. But a radiologist must still translate from a light table what he cent breakthroughs that cut the time needed to display or change a design from several hours to a fraction of a four research centers working with INSIGHT systems. INSIGHTS key part is called a solids engine, for which a patent is pending, company spokesman Mark E. Thurman said. It arranges thousands of numerical coordinates into one-eight- of a second. Well be up to in six months. INSIGHT is largely the work of two engineers, Dr. Donald Meagher, ALBANY, N.Y. The use of computers to create pictures has gotten a boost from re- facturing design and making planners more productive. It also might help save lives. In a test of the new system, Northrop Corp., the airplane maker, was able to reduce the time needed for designing metal tubing from six weeks to 18 minutes. Among the companies thai are developing the faster design systems are Silicon Graphics Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., and Phoenix Data Systems Inc. of Albany. Currently, the main product of Phoenix Data, a private company with annual sales of $15 million, is a software package used by leading computer builders to test microchip designs. But the breakthrough, officials said in recent interviews, is a system called INSIGHT. It can help design something as big as an oil refinerys piping scheme or as small as a pair of eyeglasses. It is very versatile and that is a key point, said Dr. Allen Baisuck, 40, a Phoenix vice president and a former engineering faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy. You can dissect a carburetor or a heart. Dr. David Hemmy, a neurosurgeon at the Medical College of Wisconsin at Marquette University in Milwaukee, said: Theres no question in my mind about the usefulness of this computer. I think as far as Phoenix per se goes, they have a machine with unlimited potential for application in this field. F5 Pictures Improved Drastically 3-- D Associated Press Writer The Wisconsin Sunday, March 18, 1984 The Salt Lake Tribune HELEN THORNTON $2,000,000 Producer 2225 East 4800 South Overland (THRIFT at different sides, zoom up close or After looking at the image, the surgeon, who asked to remain anonymous, said: Oh my God. I could have operated. Even though CAT scans are taken in three dimensions, they are only displayed in two dimensions, can put them back together back off. For instance, the machine can omit from the screen all brain matter not of a certain density, say a tumors density. So a doctor could clearly define a tumors size and location without opening up a pa- tients head. The system can show just bones or nerves or cartilage or any combination. As a boon in reconstructive sur in INSIGHTS achievement only starts there, its developers said. It can rotate an object, dissect it, look gery, a doctor could rebuild a patient's face on a computer screen, Hemmy said. 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