Image Storage

[Aether2000]

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Some organizations are contemplating image storage as a standard of care for pain procedures, and I agree we have several technologies to permit digital storage now.
Recently we purchased a Philips 2003 Pulsera and the shop that sold it to me told me the Medicap 100 storage device ($1500) would not work with it, however he was wrong. The images are beautifully stored and are entirely transportable in a digital JPEG format.
Other storage formats available with Medicap include DICOM. If you do not have a USB storage device already, you may want to look at the Medicap. The model 100 is a bit cumbersome in transfer (one step to store, one step to transfer to USB) but the model 200 has a built in disc drive that should output directly to your computer.
If there are any other storage media devices available (other than the hard drives on C-Arms) let me know....

 

[member]

Hey Algos,

When I was looking in the market I saww this online DVMAXX DVS-1570 on the website ampronix.com. I dont know any specifics. the link is below
http://www.ampronix.com/content/web/dvmaxx_dvs1570.asp

 

[Aether2000]

LOL...that is identical in every way to the Medicapture 100 model. The company must be co-marketing it with other companies....
Thanks for the info. I paid $1500 for mine.

 

[sleepydoc]

I would be willing to help contribute.... what do you think? I have a network to store it on as well.

perhaps a PDF journal selection divided up by anatomic and diagnostic....

 

[sleepydoc]

ps you can always scan it....

 

[Aether2000]

The issue primarily involves the acquisition and storage of images from our procedures for medical-legal purposes and documentation. There are a hodgepodge of different fluoroscopes, some digital, some analog, some operating on progressive scan, some on interlaced technology, some with their own USB export function, some with add on or built in DICOM storage, some with PACS or equivalent, some with CD burners/DVD burners/paper printers/film production onboard, or film production after export. Then there is the weird thing GE did with their very expensive card (more like a removable circuit board) technology. And then there is the issue of videos....a whole new arena of complexity. There are so many options, but it is difficult to retrofit an older non-digital fluoroscope (prior to 2005) with some of the current digital output technologies. So we are stuck with analog to digital conversion or physical storage of films/paper. With any of these methods, the issues of data degradation (paper, films), ease of storage, ease of retrieval, portability of information, embedding within the medical records, and storage costs (paper or gigabytes for scanned films or electronic storage), and additional secretarial help to manage such a system all become factors...

 

[Ligament]

I'll second this idea and scan in images if we can get this going. Would be an outstanding resource.

I would be willing to help contribute.... what do you think? I have a network to store it on as well.

perhaps a PDF journal selection divided up by anatomic and diagnostic....

 

[Aether2000]

I have the website already set up for this at www.algosresearch.org
If anyone wants to contribute, email your photos to me at [email protected] and I will post them there with the Algos emblem attached. The Algos emblem insures continued free use of the pics to all so no one will try to copyright them for their own use...

 

[drrinoo]

Some organizations are contemplating image storage as a standard of care for pain procedures, and I agree we have several technologies to permit digital storage now.
Recently we purchased a Philips 2003 Pulsera and the shop that sold it to me told me the Medicap 100 storage device ($1500) would not work with it, however he was wrong. The images are beautifully stored and are entirely transportable in a digital JPEG format.
Other storage formats available with Medicap include DICOM. If you do not have a USB storage device already, you may want to look at the Medicap. The model 100 is a bit cumbersome in transfer (one step to store, one step to transfer to USB) but the model 200 has a built in disc drive that should output directly to your computer.
If there are any other storage media devices available (other than the hard drives on C-Arms) let me know....

Can you use any of the off the shelf hard drives, like West Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, for storing images....they now have some 1 terabyte models for around 400 dollars. Even the 500 GB models sell for about $250.

 

[sleepydoc]

I would start small. The greatest articles separated by location, pain all in PDF form..... This will help learning residents and fellows while emphasizing EBM.

The only issue is copyright... and someone more knowledgeable will need to comment.



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[Mister Mxyzptlk]

The Algos emblem insures continued free use of the pics to all so no one will try to copyright them for their own use...

I can erase that emblem in about 10 seconds. If you're serious you at least need to watermark it. There are also some techniques you can use with javascript and other web programming techniques (like overlays) that make it difficult for the casual user to copy the image from the web page.