4K Medical Display Offers Real-Time OR Imaging

An innovative surgical display is designed for 4K imaging in hybrid operating rooms (ORs) and interventional suites.

The MDSC-8258 is a 58-inch medical display equipped with an extremely bright (700 cd/m²), mercury-free low-power light emitting diode (LED) backlight that delivers 3,840 x 2,160 (8 megapixels) of accurate digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM)-compliant images on a single screen. The new display offers a high contrast ratio (4,000:1), which provides surgeons and clinical staff with accurate, artifact-free interventional X-ray, endoscopic video, and patient monitoring images, as well as providing clear surgery information and patient data.


The slim and weight-efficient form factor of the display is due to a reduced bezel size, delivering a larger screen within the same overall physical size of its smaller 56-inch predecessor, the MDSC-8156, thus allows full compatibility with current mounting systems. The MDSC-8258 comes in three versions; the standard model (MDSC-8258 L), a model with a redundant power supply (MDSC-8258 RL), or with a redundant power supply plus protective front glass (MDSC-8258 RLG). The redundant power supply architecture ensures stable and reliable operation in critical conditions. The Barco MDSC-8258 is a product of Barco (Kortrijk, Belgium).

“Surgical teams are faced with a growing need for imaging solutions that centralize all critical information on one screen and make it visible to everyone in the room,” said Johan Stockman, VP of strategic marketing surgical imaging at Barco. “The MDSC-8258’s large and ultra-high definition screen offers a more efficient and flexible alternative to individual multimonitor configurations deployed in interventional environments.”

4K resolution is a generic term for display devices or content having horizontal resolution on the order of 4,000 pixels, which is the standard for ultra-high definition (UHD). Using horizontal resolution to characterize the technology marks a switch from previous video resolution definitions, which categorized media according to vertical resolution (1080i, 720p, 480p). 4K UHD has twice the horizontal and vertical resolution of the 1080p high definition (HD) format, with four times as many pixels overall.

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