Open AccessSimpleDICOM Suite: Personal Productivity Tools for Managing DICOM Objects
Author(s) -
Barton F. Branstetter,
Steven D. Uttecht,
David M. Lionetti,
Paul Chang
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
radiographics
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1527-1323
pISSN - 0271-5333
DOI - 10.1148/rg.275065139
Subject(s) - suite , dicom , software deployment , medicine , software , vendor , the internet , computer science , software engineering , world wide web , radiology , operating system , history , archaeology , marketing , business
Commercial picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) are adept at supporting mainstream radiology work flow, but radiologists frequently encounter situations requiring additional functionality. For example, the incorporation of foreign or nonradiologic images and the deidentification of examinations for research purposes are useful tasks that do not fall within the purview of most commercial PACS. A suite of free, downloadable, vendor-independent software programs designed as PACS add-ons, the SimpleDICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) Suite, has been developed to aid radiologists in performing these tasks. Clinically relevant software design and informed administrative decisions during deployment allow optimal function of this software suite, which is available for download from the Internet.