Shareware Program for Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT PACS Display and Processing

• Published in: American journal of roentgenology (1976) Vol. 188; no. 6; pp. W565 - W568
• Main Authors: Barbaras, Larry, Tal, Ilan, Palmer, Matthew R, Parker, J. Anthony, Kolodny, Gerald M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Am Roentgen Ray Soc 01.06.2007
• Subjects: Computer Graphics; Database Management Systems; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted - methods; Information Storage and Retrieval - methods; Nuclear Medicine - methods; Positron-Emission Tomography - methods; Radiology Information Systems; Software; Software Design; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods; User-Computer Interface
• ISSN: 0361-803X; 1546-3141; 1546-3141
• DOI: 10.2214/AJR.06.1058

Many of the functions necessary for imaging and analyzing nuclear medicine studies are not available on radiology PACS. Over the past 20 years, we have developed a user-friendly, easily installed software package for nuclear medicine study analysis, display, Web access, and database storage and an integrated display for fused PET/CT. We are making this software available as free shareware that can be used without a license on any PC. The software package was developed as a cooperative effort between house and attending staff and our nuclear medicine programmer. Particular emphasis was put on making functions intuitive and user friendly. A shareware nuclear medicine PACS software package including a display for fused PET/CT studies has been developed, extensively clinically tested, and is freely available on the Internet.