With the aid of technology such as using mobile devices for immediate
diagnostic process of medical procedures will tremendously save many
lives. Medical imaging plays an important role in the medical field.
Radiologists must evaluate and interpret complex analyses of images
the soonest possible time and correctly.
Last November 2009 annual meeting of The Radiological Society of
North America (RSNA), they presented the results of their study of the
use of iPhone mobile devices to scan CT scan images with a viewing
software installed in the device to diagnose acute appendicitis. The
study of 25 patients using the mobile devices were correctly diagnosed
resulting to 99% accuracy.
According to Dr. Asim F. Choudhri, the study lead author and a
physician in the division of neuroradiology at Johns Hopkins University,
“ this new technology can expedite diagnosis, and therefore treatment”.
The mobile devices can diagnose even in remote areas or wherever the
patient is located, and can be transmitted immediately for physician’s
evaluation prior to surgery.
The OsiriX Software
The iPhone G3 with OsiriX Mobile Imaging Viewer Sotware. A free open
source software for multimodal and multidimensional visualization of
images.
OsiriX software is developed and maintained by Pixmeo SARL, a
company based in Geneva Switzerland. The software were created by former
UCLA Radiologists, Antoine Rosset M.D. and Dr. Osman Ratib.
OsiriX produces high resolution images with the capability of
advanced imaging manipulation aside from regular zoom, pan,adjusting
contrast, and brightness of the images. It is at the same time a DICOM
PACS workstation for imaging and an image processing software for
medical research (radiology and nuclear imaging), functional imaging, 3D
imaging, confocal microscopy and molecular imaging.
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