PACS software developer DR Systems has been awarded a new patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that relates to a system and method for viewing medical images at full resolution.
U.S. Patent No. 8,019,138 covers software that monitors the portions of a diagnostic image that are displayed, notates those portions that have been displayed at full resolution or other user-defined display parameters, and provides the user with information indicating which portions have not been viewed at full resolution.
This capability is intended to reduce the possibility of missing an abnormality in an image, the firm said.
