
The introduction of digital technologies in the
medical imaging field and of PACS (Picture Archiving
and Communications System) in the hospitals is causing deep changes
in the way the medical image is used and distributed. Today, the
specialized physician often performs his diagnosis by analyzing
one or more medical images displayed on a diagnostic monitor,
instead of looking at a radiographic film mounted on a diaphanoscope.
A typical PACS installation provides for viewing stations in
several rooms of the hospitals: a viewing station usually consists
of a Personal Computer or a Workstation powered by a dedicated
software for the display, analysis and manipulation of DICOM
(Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) standard-compliant
medical images.
The installation and maintenance of such a software is usually
quite expensive, since normally it is a complex application that
needs to be installed locally on every host acting as viewing
station. This station, connected to the DICOM network, is able
to retrieve the medical images either from the local hard drive
or from a remote dedicated archive present on the DICOM network.
There are situations in which it could be useful to be able to
display the medical images even outside the boundaries of the
hospital's DICOM network, perhaps by a common Personal Computer
with basic software installed.
RemotEye is a DICOM image viewer
allowing to display DICOM images that physically are remote with
respect to the viewing site and that are reachable through the
Internet or Intranet networks.
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