There are prototype/cutting edge machines which allow "4d" visualisation such as you suggest. Its the sharp edge of the technology i think.
Recently we had a scan done which gives 3d images but its monchromatic and opaque allowing extenal visualisation -eg spina bifida - rather than a transparent view with an edge outline of an organ and an abnormality I have no doubt its coming. I recall on beyond tomorrow or similar a couple of months ago a story representing lung scans as a laser 3d projection n colour on a special viewing platform - obv not for a cd- (for treatment and visualisation purposes. The DVD I got from that scan was more than a drink coaster... JD 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. > > Of course, for the ultimate in imaging you can send your patients off > for the VHP treatment - but warn them its a one-way trip: > http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html > > Tim C > > PS As for delivery, I have already opined that cheap and highly scalable > Web storage services such as Amazon S3 or the soon-to-launch OmniDrive > are the future for exchange of large health-related files - without > having to invest in infrastructure oneself: > http://ozdocit.org/pipermail/gpcg_talk/2006-March/002533.html > > TC > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > -- ================================================= dr john dooley mbbs frcpa aka "ron" _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
