title: Shareware program for nuclear medicine and PET/CT PACS display and processing.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Many of the functions necessary for imaging and analyzing nuclear medicine studies are not available on radiology PACS. Over the past 20 years, we have developed a user-friendly, easily installed software package for nuclear medicine study analysis, display, Web access, and database storage and an integrated display for fused PET/CT. We are making this software available as free shareware that can be used without a license on any PC. The software package was developed as a cooperative effort between house and attending staff and our nuclear medicine programmer. Particular emphasis was put on making functions intuitive and user friendly.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A shareware nuclear medicine PACS software package including a display for fused PET/CT studies has been developed, extensively clinically tested, and is freely available on the Internet.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave., Boston, MA 02215, USA.
authors.forename: Larry
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Barbaras
authors.forename: Ilan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tal
authors.forename: Matthew R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Palmer
authors.forename: J Anthony
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: Gerald M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Kolodny
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D003628:Database Management Systems; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D009683:Nuclear Medicine / Q000379:methods; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000379:methods*; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface