Automated teaching file and slide database for digital images.
OBJECTIVE
We developed an easy-to-use method for creating a searchable digital teaching file of CT and MR images.


CONCLUSIONS
We describe a method of creating a digital archive of interesting cases that is easy to implement and works on a commercially available workstation. A remote daemon polls for images transferred to the product film tool. It creates a tagged image file format (TIFF) digital archive of these images on any platform supporting file transfer protocol (FTP), operates in the background, and automatically generates a searchable index of case information in the database.
Maldjian
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Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Ground Floor Founders, 3400 Spruce St., Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Listerud
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D003199:Computer Systems; D003628:Database Management Systems; D019992:Databases as Topic; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011871:Radiology / Q000193:education*; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014584:User-Computer Interface