SOLUTIONS: BRAIN SURGERY CONFERENCE ARGENTINA/TURKEY
What’s on your mind?
Clear, accurate imaging was crucial when it came to broadcasting medical procedures taking place in Argentina to a conference in Turkey, writes Tom Bradbury
The set-up required the management of a variety of live signal types from two different operating rooms – this is OR2
and two Analog Way Pulse dual scaler mixer seamless switchers for OR2. The different signals from
OR1 were received and processed, and arranged into a two-frame display – main video output – composed of two layers on the left and right halves of the screen. An additional picture-in-picture layer was positioned on the top right-hand corner. Sterin explains: “The idea
was to switch among the four incoming signals from the split frame monitors – four frames depicting several brain and vital signs images – so as to show two signals at a time. This was while always displaying live coverage from the camera (SD-TV/BNC input).” The Di-VentiX II was used in
Mixer mode. Four DVI sources plus one SDI source were connected to the device, and the signal was output in SDI (1080i). “Apart from the configuration challenges which were easily solved by the Di-VentiX II capabilities, one particular advantage that the equipment provides is the layer cropping,” says Sterin. When first contacted by
WHEN A conference on minimally invasive brain surgery in Istanbul, Turkey, decided to focus on operations that were being performed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, it was imperative that content was displayed accurately. Buenos Aires-based rental and staging company 2MGNet was called upon to provide a full AV system to transmit via satellite the audio and video signals generated from various medical devices and monitors, through three independent satellite links. Among the video signals
there were four DVI, one VGA and three SDI signals. The objective was to obtain those video signals generated in Buenos Aires from their various sources, process them and route them to the SAT-COM vehicle for outgoing transmission in Istanbul.
60 September 2013
According to Nicholas Sterin, project manager at 2MGNet: “Providing clear and accurate imaging was key for this event, since all content transmitted was projected on a wide screen, so as to explain and teach medical procedures to a large number of people.” At the Sagrada Familia health clinic in Buenos Aires, operations took place in two separate operating rooms (OR). 2MGNet designed a specific set-up for each room as the signals from each were different. OR1 had four outgoing DVI signals from a split-frame monitor and one SDI signal from a camera covering all operations. OR2 had one 3D DVI signal and two SDI signals. To handle these different signals, 2MGNet used one Analog Way Di-VentiX II multi-layer high-resolution mixer seamless switcher for OR1,
the co-ordinators on the Turkey side of the event, 2MGNet was provided with an example of one of the four frames depicted on the
medical monitor from which four DVI signals would be received. Originating from a particular medical device, each frame showed a high- definition 3D image of every blood vessel in the brain – veins and arteries. Each of the four frames had a thick grey-white stripe at the side containing numerous data and parameters, which needed to be removed. “As we were asked to remove said stripes to send the video only, we used the Di-VentiX II’s layer adjust menu to zoom in on the input and obtain the source with no stripe as required,” explains Sterin. For OR2, the two Pulses
were used to achieve the same configuration display as OR1. The only difference was the signal types: there was one 3D DVI, one analogue video and one SD-TV from the live coverage for OR2. Sterin explains the configuration: “In order to put all signals together as requested, we decided to merge one background layer and PIP layer into one of the Pulses’ main video output. Then, we sent the main video output into the second Pulse’s input.” Through this process,
2MGNet achieved the same configuration as in OR1. “By
[INSTALLED] VIDEO
All Analog Way Di-VentiX II DVX8044 mixer seamless switcher
Pulse PLS300 presentation switchers
[ABOUT THE INSTALLER]
Buenos Aires-based 2MGNet integrates audio, video, control and lighting technologies for staging and corporate events
Clients include major corporates such as KPMG, Intel, SC Johnson and HSBC
Technologies handled include seamless projection screens and videowalls, videoconferencing, audience response systems and multitouch systems
mixing two video signals in the first Pulse and sending it to the other, we were able to insert the third video signal as a PIP layer on the top right corner of the screen.”
www.2mg.net www.analogway.com
In OR 1, one Analog Way Di-VentiX II multi-layer high-resolution mixer was connected to one SDI and four DVI sources
www.installation-international.com
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68