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Jaime Saeger Marketing Director +1 (813) 875-7575 x320 marketing@jpg.com |
Pegasus Imaging Corporation 4001 N. Riverside Drive Tampa, FL 33603 USA www.pegasusimaging.com |
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PEGASUS IMAGING LAUNCHES LATEST VERSION OF PICTOOLS MEDICAL |
| TAMPA, FL, June 26, 2001 - Pegasus Imaging Corporation, a leader in state-of-the-art imaging software, today introduced the newest version of its Medical Image Compression Toolkit, PICTools Medical. This enhanced version of PICTools Medical offers high performance image compression libraries for medical imaging. Jack Berlin, president of Pegasus said, "I am very pleased about the upgrades and additions we have made to our PICTools Medical software. We spent a lot of time listening to what our customers needed for their imaging software. From this feedback and the extensive testing conducted on our product, we feel we continue to offer extraordinary imaging software to the medical community. PICTools Medical Compression Toolkit is a set of highly optimized compression and decompression libraries for medical imaging. This kit features high performance routines for lossless and lossy image compression, decompression, image conversion, and reading and writing of up to 16 bit “high gray” and color image file formats. PICTools Medical offers the following enhanced features and benefits: - Enhanced speed for wavelet compression/decompression - Pentium III speed optimizations - Support for Image Delivery Protocol (IDP) wavelet compression - 8-bit color-mapped input almost 2x faster in lossy JPEG compression - Support for 24-bit color lossless JPEG - Support for 12-bit gray lossy JPEG - New Viewmed157 sample application - Wavelet decompression to thumbnail sizes - Wavelet Legacy Compressor feature - YUV lossless JPEG compression support - Region-of-interest viewing - Improved support for multi-threaded applications - Improved error message handling - Improved source debugging trace routines |
| About Pegasus Imaging |
| Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Pegasus Imaging Corporation delivers digital imaging software development components, image compression and image editing technologies. The company exceeds speed and quality requirements for document imaging, forms processing, medical imaging, color/photo imaging, video applications and more. Technology is delivered as Microsoft .NET controls, COM controls, VCLs, DLLs and applications. Multiple platforms are supported, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, IBM AIX and Mac. Visit www.pegasusimaging.com for more information. |
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