Medical Imaging for All

Advances in digitalisation and computing are re-shaping the future of medical imaging.  Thanks to recent advances, medical imaging has become central to almost all specialties of the medical profession, and this new-found accessibility has revealed some extraordinary pedagogical opportunities.

Students’ access to medical images has traditionally been limited, since the necessary equipment to efficiently explore them has — until recently — been out of reach. But that’s all in the past. Thanks to OsiriX, an Open Source — and completely free — software program developed by a team of radiologists at Geneva University Hospital, all that’s needed to start exploring the richness of DICOM files is a Mac. Any Mac.

OsiriX is a revolutionary DICOM viewer built exclusively for the Mac, with features traditionally found in only the most advanced commercial DICOM workstations, including volume rendering, multiplanar rendering, maximum intensity projections, surface rendering, thick slabs and image fusion. OsiriX also offers complete support for 4- and 5-D imaging, as required for cardiac MRI, CT and image fusion for PET/CT. But there’s one big difference: these features are perfectly integrated into the Macintosh user experience, and fully leverage Apple core technologies. OsiriX runs on every Mac, from the Mac Mini to the Mac Pro, and takes full advantage of multi-processor and multi-core architectures on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs. With OsiriX and the Mac, digital medical imaging is now accessible to all, from the medical student to the most demanding radiologist.

iChat, iPod, iLife, iWork and the DICOM Standard

With an iSight camera built into every MacBook, MacBook Pro and iMac, you can start a video chat or join one at a moment’s notice. iChat support is fully integrated into OsiriX, allowing you to share and discuss medical images in real-time with peers, specialists or professors anywhere in the world — whether they use a Mac or a PC.

iLife is an award-winning suite of applications that is included with every new Mac, giving you the ability to create stunning media-rich communication tools, such as photos, blogs, podcasts and videocasts, Web pages, videos and DVDs. OsiriX allows you to export images directly to iPhoto and then publish them on the Internet with iWeb; to create QuickTime animations and movies for iMovies or iDVD; and to automatically publish a DICOM report in Pages, the stunning document creation tool that forms part of Apple’s iWork productivity suite.

MacBook Pro: Study and Work Anywhere

The MacBook Pro is perfectly suited to the student’s itinerant way of life. Study anywhere on campus, work on the road or even at a clinic during the summer. All the power, memory and connectivity of a desktop computer. Without the desk part.