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It's no secret that advances in image acquisition technology are generating larger datasets, leading to some thorny image interpretation and management issues.
To cope with image overload, PACS pioneer Dr. Eliot Siegel of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore advocates a volumetric navigation approach to image review, in which the interpretation process is separated from the manner in which the images are acquired.
In a SCAR University session at this month's Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology, Siegel argued that radiologists should have the flexibility of choosing whether to review their CT images in the sagittal, coronal, or oblique plane, for example.
Volumetric navigation offers such flexibility, but can potentially introduce new problems such as clinical content overload. In addition, volumetric navigation capabilities are not typically integrated with current PACS workstation software, Siegel said.
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