iPods Store Medical Images
iPods Store Medical Images By M.L. Baker, Ziff Davis Internet January 5, 2005 The following articles is useful to the Doctors, Healthcare IT professional and other Open source enthusiasts. This article by M. L Baker gives a picture of useing simple devices such as iPod to store medical images. Radiologists are turning to iPods to deal with the hassles of managing medical images. They're not listening to music, though; they're looking at pictures. Medical images are increasingly important in diagnosing everything from cancer to heart disease to sports injuries. And they are used extensively for research, including brain function and experimental treatments, but they also require large data sets, making storing and transferring images problematic. Two radiologists recently developed open-source software, called OsiriX , to display and manipulate complex medical images on the popular portable devices called iPods . The most current version of OsiriX, which speeds up some proce...