Dear Advanced Visualization Insider,
While tablet devices such as the iPad generate much excitement for providing mobile access to medical images, they also come with implementation challenges.
Institutions need to address a number of issues, including identifying appropriate use cases, ensuring security, and selecting the image viewing model that best fits their needs. In a talk at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting in Orlando, FL, Dr. Carl Miller of Johns Hopkins University shared how his institution dealt with these critical matters.
Our coverage of his presentation is this month's Insider Exclusive. You can access it before our other members by clicking here.
In other news featured in this issue, learn how a new 4D PET reconstruction method is showing promise for improving cardiac PET image quality by compensating for both respiratory and cardiac motion.
Also in your Advanced Visualization Digital Community, an automated lung nodule matching program could significantly increase the diagnostic efficiency of radiologists on chest CT studies. Get the details here.
While the adoption of CT lung computer-aided detection (CAD) technology has been limited by the need for radiologists to use a separate workstation, recent research has found that integrating CAD into PACS workstation software can increase reader sensitivity for lung nodules with a minimal effect on interpretation time.
A team from the National Institutes of Health has determined that automated liver volumetry from its CAD software may be able to improve the detection of hepatomegaly, or abnormal liver enlargement. You can access that article here.
Finally, Singapore researchers have concluded that radiologists can use the iPad to read a broad spectrum of emergency MR or CT cases commonly encountered during after-hours, on-call coverage. Get the details here.
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