title: [CD-ROM burning of CT scan images: initial experience].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the cost, the functionment and the impact of the installation of a CD-ROM burning system of CT scan images.
  
  
  METHODS
  An automated CD-ROM burning system (e-patient*, TSI, Paris, France) allows to burn CDs for CT scan examinations containing more than 4 films. During a 3 month period, we have delivered for each examination a CD-ROM including images with a Dicom viewer and a selection of interesting images printed on one film. The system has been evaluated by the technologists, the radiologists and the referring physicians by means of a questionnaire. The costs and the technical problems have also been studied.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The benefits of our system are the increase of the diagnostic performances of the referring physicians who use the DICOM format and a reduction of the printing costs. All referring physicians pointed out major changes in their daily work including difficulties to visualize images in relation with a lack of computer infrastructure and the impossibility of simultaneous analysis of several examinations. Technologists encountered technical problems to bum examinations and radiologists had to do extra work to related to image selection.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The installation of an automated burning system requires the creation of a dedicated team to train all the users and adapt the presentation of results to the clinical constraints (i.e. performing and printing an image selection). This system will not replace the hospital network but will be complementary.
authors.affiliation: Département de Radiologie, Hôpital Sud, BP 90347, 35203 Rennes 2.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schmitz
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Rolland
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Marin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rambeau
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Duvauferrier
mesh_terms: D016251:CD-ROM; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*