Pocket PACS:A DICOM viewing application for the pocket PC 2002 operating system

Author

Merritt, Steve B. ; Enderle, John D. ; Bronke, J.V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Connecticut Univ., CT, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

1376

Abstract

The popularity of handheld computers among physicians over the past several years has created a large demand for mobile applications. One such instance is an application allowing physicians to view medical images including laboratory slides, CT, MRI, X-ray, and ultrasound. An application that allows clinical staff, including physicians, to view medical images anytime, anywhere will benefit the delivery of healthcare. This application runs on a handheld device to display medical images that have been stored in DICOM format. The application has been tested at Baystate medical center in Springfield, Massachusetts by the radiology department´s resident physicians. Microsoft´s Embedded Visual Tools 3.0 will be used to develop the application in conjunction with several software development toolkits, such as Microsoft´s Pocket PC 2002 SDK.

Keywords

PACS; biomedical MRI; biomedical ultrasonics; computerised tomography; diagnostic radiography; health care; medical image processing; mobile computing; notebook computers; Baystate medical center; CT; DICOM format; Embedded Visual Tools; MRI; Microsofts Pocket PC; X-ray; display medical images; handheld computers; healthcare; laboratory slides; mobile applications; physicians; radiology department; resident physicians; software development toolkits; ultrasound; viewing medical images; Application software; Biomedical imaging; Computed tomography; DICOM; Handheld computers; Laboratories; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mobile computing; Operating systems; X-ray imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7789-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1279562

Filename

1279562