Medical Institutions Sendai City Medical Center Sendai Open Hospital Vol. Miyagino Ward, Sendai, Japan •Date delivered: April 2005 Medical plasma display systems were installed in five operating rooms using seven 42” plasma displays, and SDI high-definition images are being used in endoscopic and other operations. Installation Details Panasonic business-use plasma using SDI. Besides being amazed display high-definition image at the wonderful image quality, and SDI* input support is highly I decided that we should use SDI regarded and widely used. transmission for our new system. As for monitors, while medical Dr. Tsuyoshi Naito, medical director equipment is rapidly switching to In the two general operating rooms, 42” high-definition of digestive surgery, who played a plasma displays are attached to the wall. digital, we cannot hope for higher central role in implementing the resolution and bigger screens than medical imaging system in the new at present with CRT monitors. Also, operating rooms, discusses the We looked at several companies' large LCD monitors suffer from reasons for using the Panasonic products, but we liked Panasonic's color irregularity depending on the plasma display system, and the high-definition and SDI support, viewing angle, and besides their features of the system. and decided to go with Panasonic. inferior color reproduction, they “My specialization is endoscopy. We were able to get system have poor responsiveness with The focus up to now regarding specifications that fully met our high-speed images so that image quality in endoscopic surgery needs for things like touch-panel afterimages and image blurring has largely been on the perfor- system control and networking occur, making them unsuitable as mance aspects of the endoscope, inside the hospital, and the main monitors for endoscopic and nobody really considered the installation went smoothly. We surgery. performance of the monitors. started using them in May 2005. On the other hand, the plasma When I was studying abroad in display has excellent characteristics America before the recent like responsiveness with high- modernization of our hospital, speed images, very good color I had the opportunity to inspect reproduction, unrestricted viewing some medical facilities where angle, no flicker and so on. I saw medical images transmitted The new hospital building was completed and entered operation in May 2005. *SDI (Serial Digital Interface) A standard for the interface used by broadcasting stations and the like for exchanging digital images and sound signals. It can transmit uncompressed digital signals with a single coaxial cable. The HD- In the two endoscopic operating rooms, 42” high-definition plasma display units are suspended from the ceiling SDI standard covers high-definition, while the SD- on arms. [Note]The walls of the operating room are painted light green to eliminate complementary color SDI standard covers NTSC and similar formats. afterimages due to the red color of blood. At the Sendai Open Hospital, green lighting is also used. Medical Institutions Sendai City Medical Center Vol.5 Sendai Open Hospital Sendai, Japan Date delivered: April 2005 the selector and view it in the System Outline anesthetists' room, the doctors' A total of seven ceiling, wall-mounted and mobile plasma displays anteroom, and the staff room, as well as in the operating room.” are installed in the operating room. “There are five operating rooms, and all After Installation of them have 42” TH-42PHD7 units. In SDI transmission plasma display the two endoscopic surgery rooms, two systems are becoming the standard ceiling-mounted plasma displays are for medical imaging systems placed face-to-face on arms so that “At the moment endoscopes and both the surgeon and assistant surgeon surgical light cameras don't support HD- can monitor the images with In the endscopic operating room, a 42” high- definition plasma display unit is also suspended from SDI, so the system we implemented is comfortable posture. the ceiling on an arm on the opposite side. the SD-SDI specification. In future, if Selecting the image source to display and angle, recording on the HDD equipment with HD-SDI support comes on the plasma display (endoscopic recorder, adjusting the room lighting out, it's only a matter of changing to HD- image, PACS* image, pathologic image, and surgical lights and other SDI boards, so there shouldn't be any electrocardiogram and so on), selecting adjustments can all be controlled from problem. the plasma display multi-screen display a single touch panel. I think SDI plasma display systems will mode, adjusting the ceiling arm rotation In the two general operating rooms, eventually become the standard for plasma displays are attached to the endoscopic surgery. At this hospital, wall. In the cardiac surgery room, we trainee doctors are coming from within have mobile plasma display units that Japan and also from countries like can be moved for easy viewing during China, and they're getting experience in operations. In the hospital we've doing operations using this system. So I installed dedicated lines for operation believe medical SDI plasma display images, PACS images, pathologic In the cardiac surgery room, 42” high-definition systems will begin gaining ground mobile plasma display units on mobile stands with images and operation site images, so internationally.” castors are used for easy viewing during operations. you can select an image to monitor with Outline of the System Installed at Sendai Open Hospital Medical image filing system (PACS) Operating rooms 1/2 Operating rooms 3/4 Operating room 5 Operating site Operating Operating site camera Surgical site camera light camera Surgical light Surgical light 3CCD camera TH-42PHD7 (ceiling-mounted) MRI, CT . 3CCD camera 3CCD camera TH-42PHD7 TH-42PHD7 PACS (wall-mounted) (mobile) server Endoscope Electro- Electro- cardiogram RGB cardiogram Pathology laboratory SDI RGB Composite Composite RGB Electro- Composite cardiogram Matrix switcher Matrix switcher Matrix switcher Touch Touch Touch panel DVD recorder panel DVD recorder panel DVD recorder Electronic medical chart database Doctors’ anteroom Anesthetists’ Staff room room *PACS (Picture Archiving and 32" liquid crystal display using TH-32LHD7S. Communication System): Input selected with a Medical image filing system selector. Visual Products and Display Devices Business Group AVC Networks Company, Panasonic Corporation.