DICOM 3.0 IMAGE VIEWING SOFTWARE FOR CARDIOLOGY

The evaluation version of our Dicom Image Viewing Software (DVS) is free. It is developed at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. You can download both evaluation and full versions of this software. You can display angio images stored in DICOM format on your PC using this software.

DVS is a windows based software running on a standard PC which lets a cardiologist (in his/her office or in a hospital setting) to :

- Visualize patients' angio sequences on his/her PC,
- Analyze selected images (frame by frame viewing, contrast and brightness adjustment, ...) for a detailed study,
- Send images/sequences to your colleagues via internet

DVS is based on the latests DICOM standard: Dicom 3.0 and it lets the viewing of sequences or individual frames or images regardless of the original modality. DVS is an ideal tool for modern cardiology and radiology units equiped with Dicom compatible modalities and devices. Here is a snapshot of the DVS. The next snapshot is taken during the annotation of an angiography image.

BENEFITS TO THE CARDIOLOGISTS and RADIOLOGISTS

- No films
- No analog video devices
- Saves space (a CD-ROM in the patients' file),
- Durable and long lasting storage,
- The use of ordinary computers (the PC and the Windows environment, Linux version is under development)
- Convenient way of communication by images,
- High Image quality

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR the PC

- Pentium 300 Mhz PC, 64 Mb RAM or higher
- Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT,
- local network, or internet connection (if the electronic transfer of images is needed)

The DVS software can actually run on any Pentium PC but it will be very slow, if the above requirements are not met.

You can download the software from

URL: http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~cetin/dvs.html

CONTACT ADDRESS

A. Enis Cetin
Bilkent University
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
TR-06533 Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey
Phone: 90-312-290 1477 or 90-312-266 4307
Fax: 90-312-266 4126
e-mail: cetin@ee.bilkent.edu.tr
URL: http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~cetin/
Linux version of our software is currently under development. It will be ready in a few months.
Turkish: Turk Kardiologlari ve radyologlari bize telefonla da ulasabilirler.
Keywords: Cardiology, Kardiolog, Cardiologist, Angio Image Display, Radyolog, Radiologist, DICOM 3.0, Dicom, Filmless, Anjio Resimleri, Image Processing, Video Processing