Health Imaging & IT - March 2008 - (Page 32) reaDing room By Beth Walsh Picking the Perfect PACS DiSPlAyS Advances in color viewing for certain modalities, such as MR and color Doppler ultrasound, are forcing hospitals and imaging centers to reconsider their PACS displays. On the monitor front, technology allows for greater longevity and less drift. The result is a wider selection, with the best options depending on an organization’s needs. Displaying color Radnet inc., a group of outpatient imaging centers in Maryland, New York, Florida, Delaware, and California, uses a wide assortment of image displays, says Mike Backof, director of clinical applications. They include about 35 sets of 5 megapixel (MP) greyscale monitors, about 30 sets of 3MP greyscale monitors, and about 60 sets of 2MP color monitors. Models include Planar PX212s, Planar Domes C3i and Barco 3MP Coronis, Barco MFGD5621 HD, and Totoku ME551i2. Recently, Radnet began purchasing monitors from U.S. Electronics (USEI). Radnet started installing PACS in 2003, which required additional displays and diagnostic workstations. Some specialized workstations already existed, but “we certainly bought quite a few displays during the initial PACS installs.” USEI helped Radnet set up five sets of 5MP monitors in just four days for a mammography workstation project. “We saw some discrepancies in the image quality of the mammography display on the IReadMammo software that we were testing while using the Totoku 5MP displays when comparing the images to [another] workstation,” Backof says. He hooked up the Barco monitors to the IReadMammo workstation so that both were running the same software and was able to verify that there was a difference in the image quality between the Barco and Totoku displays. 32 Health Imaging & IT | March 2008 HealthImaging.com http://HealthImaging.com
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