VSG and Xradia partnership agreement

[mikeheck]

VSG (Visualization Sciences Group) and Xradia Inc. announced August 8, 2011 that they have signed an OEM partnership agreement. Xradia will offer VSG’s Avizo Fire software as their primary product offering for high-end 3D visualization and analysis that is used in conjunction with the company’s 3D X-ray imaging solutions.

Avizo Fire is a 3D analysis application specifically designed for Materials Science and built on top of VSG's industry leading Open Inventor 3D visualization toolkit. Avizo Fire offers a broad range of software tools for obtaining and visualizing advanced qualitative and quantitative information on material structure images.

Xradia's portfolio of X-ray microscopes (XRM) employ advanced optics technology to nondestructively produce 3D images of objects at true submicron and nanometer levels of resolution. These systems help advance innovation in science and industry by providing unique insight into the internal structure of materials.

The combination enables and facilitates a wide range of research, engineering and industrial applications. For example, in the oil and gas industry, X-ray CT-derived 3D segmented pore structures of rocks are used as the base grid systems for applying digital rock physics modeling of static and dynamic rock properties including porosities, permeabilities, multi-phase relative permeabilities and capillary pressures. These properties are essential for resource assessment and for production design and optimization of oil and gas assets.

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