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The ACRViewer.1.3.NIHS.bd.tar.gz file contains
- ACRViewer.app
- ACRViewerScreenShot.tiff
- A Distributed Objects API for ACRViewer
- Class Interface (dynamically extending ACRViewer with image operators)
- ACRViewer.1.3.NIHS.bd.README
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What is ACRViewer ?
ACRViewer can display medical images stored in a representation that is
specified in a NEMA (National Electrical Manufactures Association)
Standards Publication.
Together with the ACR (American College of Radiology) the NEMA formed a
joint committee to develop a standard for Digital Imaging and Communications
in Medicine (DICOM).
At the moment ACRViewer can display most ACR-NEMA 1.0, ACR-NEMA 2.0 and DICOM 3.0 (new in ACRViewer 1.3) images.
ACRViewer will reject any other input.
If you don't have ACR-NEMA files you may have a look at the screen shot (ACRViewerScreenShot.tiff) to get an impression of what ACRViewer does.
If you have ACR-NEMA files you will probably like the unique features of ACRViewer:
- transparent file format handling (ACR-NEMA 1/2, DICOM 3, swapped, ...)
- interface displaying non-image data specified by ACR-NEMA standard
+ patient data (Name, Id, Study Date, ...)
+ image data (width, height, windows, ...)
- support of volume browsing (slice by slice)
- volume animation
- Application Programming Interface (API).
- Extensibility: implement your own image operators. The
specialized case of 16Bit grayscale image data enables very fast
image processing.
- ACRViewer supports drag-and-drop. Simply drag the displayed
image into your favorite word processor or into the File-Browser.
ACRViewer is now compiled Quad-Fat for NeXT, Intel, HP-PA and Sparc processors.
For "License and Warranty" see Info->Info...->more Info...
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What are the roots of ACRViewer ?
At the CeVis (Center for Complex Systems and Visualisation - University of Bremen) we are developing a general purpose image processing system that also contains several very specialized algorithms for medical diagnostics. This system runs on Silicon Graphics workstations and uses the Image Vision Library (IL) from SGI. In the IL's execution model, image data is processed only on demand. This enables our system to process huge data sets. For more information contact the CeVis WWW Server at http://www.cevis.uni-bremen.de
I have taken the ACR format parsing software from this image processing
system developed at CeVis (with permission from CeVis) and built a NEXTSTEP
Interface around it.
The ACR format parsing software uses (for DICOM 3.0 images) the
"European CTN Dicom Software (Version 2.0)" provided by
"OFFIS, Oldenburg University and CERIUM".
You'll find the Copyright notice for this software in the ACRViewer Application
under "Info/Info.../more info...".
Jens Breitenborn, 95/06/14
EMail:
jensb@mathematik.uni-bremen.de, or
jensb@informatik.uni-bremen.de
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.