CT Image Management and Communication Services

Abstract

Nowadays computed tomography (CT) becomes very popular and useful in both medical and dental areas. Due to the standard DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) file format of CT images containing special headers of image, patient and device information, dentists or specialists require to use DICOM viewer software to display those images. After acquiring a CT scan, a traditional way to transfer the CT images from the CT workstation to another place is by having someone carry a CD containing DICOM images with or without viewer software. To accommodate or speed up this process, especially when an interpreting radiologist and a referring dentist are in different places, we have developed a CT image management and communication service process which provides online dental image management as well as viewer software available for the invocation by web and mobile applications. Our system can support image stream, online CT scan request and image download services. The web and mobile applications allow dentists or specialists to view and analyze images at anywhere anytime. This complete system would gain high benefits to not only a dental CT service center but also other medical imaging service centers as well.