Radiologists are leveraging the new world of iSite PACS 3D Applications to enhance workflow and clinical confidence.
Reconstructing images more quickly across the enterprise at Cremona hospital
With a million outpatient services provided each year, the two radiology departments of Cremona Hospital in Italy carry out approximately 200,000 examinations annually.
Lucio Olivetti, MD, Director of the Laboratory, Image Diagnostics and Advanced Technology Department at the Cremona Hospital in Italy reports that Philips iSite PACS Volume Vision has provided:
“…a series of possibilities, which allows me to reconstruct and manage the images more quickly…as if I were at a dedicated MRI or CT workstation.” He continues, “At the same time I can see the patient’s medical/radiological history, something that would not be possible if I was working just on the modality workstation.”
Seeing more from body CT scans at Humber River Regional Hospital
Stephen Nash, MD, radiologist with the Humber River Regional Hospital in Toronto, uses Philips iSite PACS Volume Vision to handle body CT scans from its volume scanners.
The hospital performs 30,000 CT examinations per year on three multislice CT scanners.
Nash also noted, “We send the whole thin-slice set of data to iSite PACS and then use Volume Vision to interactively reconstruct most of our cases. When you use 3D multiplanar reconstruction for every case, you can avoid missing things. I think it is improving diagnostic confidence.”
“Because Volume Vision is truly integrated with iSite PACS, I can use all my tools at the same time on the same workstation, whereas other standalone 3D workstations don’t let you do that,” concluded Nash. “I can read a study in 3D and sign off in the same program.”
Faster analysis of coronary CT angiograms at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Nick Costouros, MD, radiologist with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Center in Palo Alto, CA, uses Philips iSite PACS Advanced Clinical Applications with 3D viewing platform largely for looking at coronary CT angiograms.
“Philips iSite PACS Clinical Applications have the ability to do fast reformats in different planes,” Costouros explained. “The cardiac package allows us to look at the coronary CT information diagnostically in a rapid and robust method.”
Costouros concluded, “The automated coronary artery identification tool works very effectively in a majority of patients that I’ve read, saving me quite a bit of time in having to manually draw the coronary artery tree using the software. The time between CT acquisition and diagnostic interpretation is short, creating a more efficient workflow.”
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