A high-contrast, 10-bit grayscale display for use in mammography and other medical applications is intended to help radiologists more effectively screen for breast cancer. Current displays that rely on standard PC workstations are limited to 8-bit grayscale, which provides only 256 possible shades of gray for each pixel, thereby sometimes obscuring valuable data. Without specialty hardware, the developers came up with a way to transmit 10 or 12-bit grayscale data from its Quadro FX 4600 and higher graphics boards to a Planar Dome display (as well as to a wide range of grayscale panels from various manufacturers) using a standard DVI cable. This provides up to 864 possible shades of gray, more than three times the image contrast of an 8-bit system.

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