Medical Profiles
U.C. San Francisco
Rural Radiology Consultants
Most DICOM workstations are $100,000 or more and a Mac running OsiriX Pro is less expensive and better than any diagnostic workstation — in my opinion.
Medical Imaging Profiles
Hartford Hospital Stroke Center
The Mac Arrives at Geneva University Hospital
The arrival of the Mac and OsiriX at the Geneva University Hospital has opened the floodgates of 3D image analysis and revolutionized workflow in 15 clinical departments.
Creating Roadmaps for Surgeons
Professor Maki Sugimoto uses a Mac Pro to display 3D images of his patients' anatomy in the operating room, providing a road map for more efficient surgery.
Practice Management Profiles
New Visions in Health
Ones and zeroes are good for your health. It’s something Dr. Mel Cescon discovered after digitizing a few tons of paper medical records for his clinic’s 12,000 patients.
Practicing Dentistry’s Future
From record-keeping to patient education, Macs have become co-associates in everything.
Automation on the Mac
Managing an EMR on the PC is too complicated. You need an IT department to set it up and perform upgrades.
Video for Surgery Profiles
Hartford Hospital Stroke Center
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Surgeons at Great Ormond Street Hospital operate on infant hearts that suffer from rare and complex conditions. Surgeries captured on video, archived, edited, and labeled using Apple technology – are used for teaching and sharing with other surgeons around the world.
A New York neurosurgeon
Dr. David Langer wanted a solution that would let him combine MRI, CT and other images with digital video clips from his surgical microscope. Read how easy it is to edit and create these educational neurosurgery movies using a Mac.
High-Definition Endoscopy at Veterans Affairs Hospital
Mac video technology enables VA to capture SD and HD endoscopy using off-the-shelf hardware and software.
Medical Video Profiles
U.C. San Francisco
Hartford Hospital Stroke Center
UCLA Medical Center
Seminar on Editing Medical Procedures
Dr. Patrick Reardon, demonstrates basic video editing tools you need in Final Cut Studio, to edit any medical procedures. Watch Seminar
Fovia Online Seminar
Dr. Geoffrey D. Rubin, takes you through the basic installation, set-up and use of Fovia's HDVR™ engine on a Mac. Watch Seminar
Getting Started with OsiriX
Tutorial for Reviewing and Manipulating Diagnostic Medical Images. Watch Seminar
The 8-core Mac Pro gives you up to 32GB of memory, 4TB of storage, and superb graphics for your most demanding applications. Use one of several DICOM viewers to display 2D, 3D, 4D, or fused data on one or two 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays, which give you up to 8 megapixels of dazzling clarity. Run 32-bit and 64-bit applications, and Windows applications, in the UNIX-based Mac OS X.
Alternative desktop configuration:
- 24-inch iMac with 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 8GB DDR3 SDRAM
- Disk: 1TB Serial ATA Drive
- Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 with 512MB GDDR3
PACS server and storage.
As your data grows, fight off the squeeze between rising storage costs and the Data Reduction Act. Use Xserve and Promise RAID with partner PACS solutions for much less than other-platform solutions.
See your DICOM series downloads sooner with the fast, efficient autorouting capability of Mac OS X and Bonjour’s ability to access multiple archives.
Recommended Configuration:
- Two Xserve servers, each with 2 x 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Nehalem" processors (8-core)
- 12GB (6x2GB) DDR3 ECC SDRAM
- Two 160GB Serial ATA ADM @ 7200-rpm
- One Dual-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel card
- Dual 750W Power Supplies
- Xserve RAID Card
- 16TB Promise VTrak E-Class 16x 1TB SATA RAID subsystem (16TB)
Recommended configuration:
- Mac Pro with 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors (8-core)
- Memory: Recommend 12GB (6x2GB) of DDR3 RAM (for larger DICOM stacks) or a minimum of 6GB (6x1GB) of DDR3 RAM
- Disk: Two 640GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA Drives
- Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB memory
- Monitor: One 24-inch or 30-inch Apple Cinema HD displays
Mobility: Work anywhere you like.
Analyze an MRI or follow an OR procedure without leaving the comforts of home – with a MacBook, MacBook Pro, or the ultraportable MacBook Air. Or edit a video of your latest surgery, post it on iTunes, and view it on your iPhone.
Recommended Configuration:
- 15 or 17-inch MacBook Pro, 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 SDRAM
- Disk: 320GB Serial ATA drive @ 7200 rpm
- Monitor option: Connect MacBook Pro with 24-inch or 30-inch Apple Cinema HD display
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