PACS X-Ray Acquisition Software Provides More Efficient Workflow

New picture archiving and communication system (PACS) X-ray image acquisition software offers accelerated image processing. The image data are now evaluated simultaneously on all the cores of the processor.

OR Technology (Rostock, Germany) will presented a new version of its versatile acquisition software for X-ray images, called dicomPACS DX-R version 2.2, at the 2012 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna, Austria, held during March 1-5, 2012.

Moreover, dicomPACS DX-R has implemented the MPPS (modality performed procedure step) Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) service class. This service optimizes the workflow by informing the worklist server (hospital information system/radiology information system [HIS/RIS]) of the beginning and the completion of an examination. The acquisition software sends data regarding starting, executing, and closing of examinations to the set server. Based on these messages, the server can determine the state of the processing.

The new software version now also supports the DICOM service class Storage Commitment. By means of Storage Commitment, DICOM units can obtain confirmation that the data transmitted was safely stored in the archive. Once information has been received that the images were successfully stored, the image data of the DICOM unit can be deleted from the database of the specific modality.

“Numerous new components have been integrated into the current version of our X-ray acquisition software,” said Bernd Oehm, managing director of the enterprise. “A number of detectors and CR [computed radiography] systems but also X-ray generators are supported by dicomPACS DX-R. The software controls X-ray generators and motorized X-ray systems of different manufacturers, enabling an ideal work process,” stressed Bernd Oehm.

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