Tim Churches wrote:
Peter MacIsaac wrote:
At yesterdays radiology quality workshop it was suggested that radiology
images as currently delivered were only useful a drink coasters.
Any views on what GPs want from radiology re images and the CD method of
delivery?
In this age of powerful computers, I am amazed that CAT and MRI scans
are still routinely presented as a series of slices which the viewer
needs to synthesise into a mental image of the structures of interest.
Radiologists and others accustomed to looking at such images all the
time no doubt form the necessary neural connections to facilitate this,
but for others, it is not so easy, and for patients, very difficult indeed.
Why aren't CAT and MRI scans delivered in a form which provides 3D
visualisation? Software to do the processing and visualisation is
freely available - some superficial googling reveals
http://www.itksnap.org/ or http://www.sph.sc.edu/comd/rorden/mricro.html
- I am sure there are others.
Wouldnt need the radiologists to report on them then
R
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