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While an increasing number of high-volume CT procedures demand the use of advanced visualization techniques, some researchers feel that PACS vendors haven't kept up with requirements for simultaneous viewing of both 2D and 3D images.
Today's workstations offer semi-integrated functionality, providing 2D and 3D interpretation in separate windows. This lack of full integration results in reduced efficiency, according to Dr. William Boonn, chief radiology resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) in Philadelphia.
Believing that radiologists and PACS workstation designers haven't seriously dealt with the need to design default display protocols (DDPs) for 2D and 3D images, a team of researchers from HUP, the Baltimore VA Medical Center, and the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore created a study to evaluate DDP preferences for 2D and 3D by a group of radiologists.
The team found that while radiologists differ in their thinking for creating optimized display of 2D and 3D images, consensus DDPs can yield a high level of agreement. Boonn presented the research at the 2006 Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Medical Imaging conference, held earlier this year in San Diego.
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