Medical imaging software maker DesAcc has announced that it will provide its new dotDICOM conversion technology to the American College of Radiology (ACR), which will use it to standardize data from MR facilities the college accredits in the U.S. Chicago-based DesAcc has been providing the ACR with a conversion service for digital data from most major MR vendors, including GE, Hitachi, Philips, Siemens, and Toshiba, since 1999.
The service allows the ACR to accredit data stored in a large variety of file and media formats, including DAT, optical disk, and tape. MR centers seeking accreditation send in DesAcc disks or tapes containing their equipment data. In turn the centers receive a CD-ROM containing fully standardized DICOM data within an ACR-approved, Web-based format. The CD is then forwarded to the ACR's MRI accreditation program for evaluation.The new product, dotDICOM, allows DesAcc to automatically convert and structure any type of modality data (including vendor-specific DICOM, standard DICOM, or legacy image output), in a DICOM hierarchy/archive. Images can then be viewed with a Web browser or on a PACS workstation. DesAcc believes that dotDICOM can also provide cost-effective and efficient data migration services to hospitals and vendors that are seeking to standardize and upgrade their image archives to the DICOM format.
June 16, 2000
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