Download as a PDFPUKKA-J OFFERS AN INEXPENSIVE SOLUTION FOR HANDLING LARGE PET/CT DATASETS
Pukka-j’s ‘Copy to CD’ allows reading and writing of DICOM images to CD-ROM or DVD. To aid image distribution there is a user interface with options to write DICOMDIR, anonymise data, include image viewer, encrypt data, write CD label and password protect. The ability to include the Dicom Explorer image viewer to the media allows the recipient of the CD to read the data without any additional DICOM software.
Often a Trust or region will acquire just one PET/CT scanner, sited at a major hospital, and this facility will have multiple referring hospitals, cancer clinics and therapy planning facilities sharing the same resource. At the sites, there is often a mixture of equipment available to accept and review the PET/CT data. Some sites have no PET/CT workstations, and some do, but the workstation may be from a different manufacturer and will not be interoperable with the PET/CT scanner data. This need for new image display and navigation software often exceeds the capacity of commercial software manufacturers to rapidly adapt and provide new tools that are needed by clinical and academic communities. Typically, the tools required to manipulate rapidly the large sets of 3-D and 4-D data are hard to find and are only available on very high-end expensive workstations. In addition, they usually lack some specialised sets of tools that are specific for a certain number of applications and diagnostic or therapeutic tasks.
‘Copy to CD’ provides the ability to write a patient’s PET/CT images on to CD and is suitable for image viewing from a CD sent to the referring physician in conjunction with a report. The CD contains viewing software with an auto-run facility so that when inserted into the CD drive of any pc, the viewing software automatically launches, and automatically displays the patient images for easy viewing and interrogation by non-imaging professionals.
CD publication is ideally suited to organisations with mobile and remote imaging facilities where an internet, LAN or WAN connection is not in place.
CD facility schematic diagram
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