Subject: Medical Image Format FAQ, Part 7/8
Date: 8 Aug 1997 05:29:02 -0400
Summary: This posting contains answers to the most Frequently Asked
. Question on alt.image.medical - how do I convert from image
. format X from vendor Y to something I can use ? In addition
. it contains information about various standard formats.

Archive-name: medical-image-faq/part7
Posting-Frequency: monthly
Mon Aug  4 17:09:50 CDT 1997
Version: 3.16

7.  Sources of Information

    7.1 Contacts and Sites

       - 3D Reconstruction Sites:


..- http://biocomp.arc.nasa.gov/3dreconstruction


       - 3D Software Sites:


..- http://www.uni-hamburg.de/~medizin/imdm VoxelMan
..- hpux.dsi.unimi.it/imaging/ XEVA-VisualStudio
..- hpux.dsi.unimi.it/imaging//xeva_sell.html XEVA-VisualStudio
..- See also 3DVIEWNIX
..- See also ANALYZE from Mayo
..- See also volume-visualization FAQ


       - 3DVIEWNIX (University of Pennsylvania):


..- ftp://mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu/3DVIEWNIX1.1/
..- ftp://mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu/3DVIEWNIX1.1/BINARIES
..- ftp://mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu/3DVIEWNIX1.1/MPEG_MOVIES
..- ftp://mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu/3DVIEWNIX1.1/DATA
..- ftp://mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu/3DVIEWNIX1.1/PAPERS
..- ftp://mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu/3DVIEWNIX1.1/MANUALS
..- ftp://mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu/3DVIEWNIX1.1/SRC
..- ftp://mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu/3DVIEWNIX1.1/TUTORIALS
..- http://www.mipg.upenn.edu/


       - ACR Index of Radiologic Diagnoses (ascii text files):


..- ftp://ftp.xray.hmc.psu.edu/acr_codes
..- http://www.xray.hmc.psu.edu/acr_codes/acr_codes.html


       - ACR Teleradiology Standard:


..- http://www.acr.org/standards.new/teleradiology_standard.html


       - ADAC:


..- http://www.adaclabs.com/


       - Agfa:


..- http://www.agfa-medical.com/


       - ALI - Ultrasound PACS, DICOM WinVIEW:


..- http://www.alitech.com/
..- mailto:info@ali.bc.ca


..A.L.I. Technologies Inc
..95 - 10551 Shellbridge Way
..Richmond, BC
..phone (604) 279-5422
..fax   (604) 279-5468

..A.L.I. Imaging Systems Corp.
..720 Olive Way, Suite 1020
..Seattle, WA 98101
..phone (800) 661-5885
..fax   (604) 279-5468

       - Analogic:

..Analogic/CDA

..e-mail rsmillie@analogic.org Richard Smillie
..http://webrad.com

       - ANALYZE from Mayo - Multidimensional image processing, visualization
       and analysis


..- http://www.mayo.edu/bir/


       - Anatomy - interactive programs:


..- ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/medical


       - Anatomy - Virtual Hospital Multimedia Textbooks:


..-
..http://www.vh.org/Providers/Textbooks/MultimediaTextbooks.html


       - Anatomical images on CDROM and other atlases:

..ADAM Software Inc
..1899 Powers Ferry Rd.
..Suite 460
..Marietta, GA 30067
..phone (800) 755-2326
..fax   (404) 955-3088
..phone (800) 408-ADAM Dept 502
..phone (800) 408-ADAM Dept 504
..phone (404) 980-0888

..BodyWorks
..Software Marketing Corp
..9830 South 51st St, Bldg. A-131
..Phoenix, AZ  85044
..phone (602) 893-3377

..Gold Standard Multimedia
..http://www.gsm.com/

..Lifeart
..phone (800) 543-3278
..phone (216) 291-1922

..McKnight Associates
..Interactive Human and Radiologic Anatomy CDROMs
..Scott C. Howard
..Medical CD-ROM Sales Consultant
..242 S.W. 2nd Street
..Gainesville, FL  32601-6576
..phone (904) 378-7773
..phone (800) 378-7793
..fax   (904) 337-0760
..email  75521.2241@compuserve.com

..VoxelMan Atlas
..Springer-Verlag, Electronic Media
..175 Fifth Avenue
..New York, NY 10010
..phone  (212) 460-1682
..phone  (212) 533 5587
..email  blange@springer-ny.com

..See also:

..Visible Human Project
..Visible Human CDROM

       - Angiography simulation:


..- ftp://ftp.comp.vuw.ac.nz/pub/graphics/peter/xras.tar.gz


       - ARTMA - image guided stereotactic navigation:


..- http://www.artma.com/


       - ATL:

..Advanced Technology Laboratories
..22100 Bothell Everett Highway
..P.O. Box 3003
..Bothell, WA   98041-3003
..phone 206-487-7000
..phone 206-485-6080

..http://www.atl.com

       - Blood flow modelling:


..- georgef@wlgore.com (George Foutrakis)
..- http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~georgef


       - Compression information and software:


..- See also JPEG Sources.
..- Wavelets:

..    - Aware (including WSQ Fingerprint software):

...- http://www.aware.com/

..    - Ricoh Compression with Reversible Embedded Wavelets
..    (CREW):

...- http://www.crc.ricoh.com/CREW/
...- ftp://ftp.crc.ricoh.com/pub/CREW

..    - Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees (Said and
..    Pearlman) (SPIHT):

...- http://ipl.rpi.edu/SPIHT/
...- ftp://ipl.rpi.edu/pub/EW_Code

..    - Spline wavelet compression (Charles Chui,TAMU and
..    MDACC):

...- http://recon.mda.uth.tmc.edu/

..    - Wavelet digest:

...- http://www.wavelet.org/wavelet/
...- ftp://ftp.math.sc.edu/pub/wavelet

..    - Wavelet resouces:

...- http://www.mathsoft.com/wavelets.html
...- http://pascal.math.yale.edu/pub/wavelets
...- ftp://pascal.math.yale.edu/pub/wavelets
...-
...http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/ssantini/cse228f/wavelet/ref.html
...- http://www.amara.com/current/wavelet.html
...- http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~baum/wavelets.html
...- http://www.mat.sbg.ac.at/~uhl/wav.html

..    - Wavelet software:

...- http://www.cs.sc.edu/~fernande/liftpack/ Liftpack
...software


..- Lossless:

..    - Rice algorithm (R.F.Rice,JPL) and Universal Source
..    Encoding for Science data (USES) (Pen-Shu Yeh,GSFC):

...- http://www.mrc.unm.edu/Uses/ Uses information
...- ftp://groucho.mrc.unm.edu/pub/szip szip executables
...-
...http://starbase.jpl.nasa.gov/cdroms/igarss94/papers/p940201/p940201/p940201.htm
...Remote sensing paper
...-
...http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~richmond/rice/rice.html
...Rice for FITS

..    - Dynamic Markov Modelling (G.V.Cormack) (DMC):

...- http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/PAPERS.html
...Bibliography
...-
...http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/manuscripts/dmc.ps.gz
...The paper

..    - LOCO (new lossless JPEG):

...- http://info.cipic.ucdavis.edu/~estes/ Robert Estes
...implementation

..    - Markov Predictive Coders (PPM):

...- http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~cbloom/src/indexppm.html
...Charles Bloom


..- Lossless and Lossy:

...- http://monet.uwaterloo.ca/~john/btpc.html Binary Tree
...Predictive Coding


..- General resources:

..    - Compression pointers by singlis@cs.waikato.ac.nz (Stuart
..    Inglis):

...- http://www.internz.com/compression-pointers/ US
...mirror
...- http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~singlis/ Author's home
...page
...-
...http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~singlis/compression-pointers.html
...Original in NZ
...- http://www.cph.ih.dk/et/ete/sm/image/compres2.html
...Danish Mirror

..    - compression-faq/part[1-3]



       -  CT reconstruction software:


..- ftp://peipa.essex.ac.uk/ipa/old/proc-src

...- ct.tar.Z
...- snark77.tar.Z



       - Data General TCP/IP solution for RDOS & AOS:

..Claflin & Clayton
..203 Southwest Cutoff
..Northboro, MA 01532
..phone 508-393-7979
..fax   508-393-8788
..email clayton@c-c.com
..email 70262.3663@compuserve.com

       - Data General themselves:

..DG Direct
..phone 1-800-343-8842

       - DEFF Contact - TIFF based portable ultrasound format:


..- ATL
..- jbono@corp.atl.com John Bono


       - Dermatology sites:


..- http://www.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/

..    - /docs/FAU/fakultaet/med/kli/derma/



       - DesAcc:

..http://www.desacc.com


..- DigitalJacket Mac DICOM Storage SCP (receives images)
..- ImportACCESS Photoshop Plugin imports multiple formats


..Hugh Lyshkow
..DesAcc
..2502 North Clark St., Suite 204
..Chicago IL 60614
..phone  (312) 404-7888
..fax    (312) 472-8834
..email  info@desacc.com (Hugh Lyshkow)

       - DicomIt Imaging Systems (US Storage and Print SCU):

..DicomIt Imaging Systems Corp.
..Unit 9, 75 East Beaver Creek Road
..Richmond Hill
..Ontario
..CANADA L4B 1K6
..phone 905-886-9496
..fax   905-886-2109
..email dicomit@gold.interlog.com

       - Digital Mammography Homepage:

..Brandeis University
..http://www.rose.brandeis.edu/users/mammo/digital.html

       - Dome Imaging Systems (Monitors):

..Dome Imaging Systems, Inc.
..400 Fifth Ave
..Waltham MA 02154
..phone 617-895-1155
..http://www.dome.com

       - DoroTech, DoroFile for GEMS Genesis WORM:

..DoroFile is a UNIX-like file system for WORM (Write Once Read
..Multiple)
..optical disks that features:


..- Full implementation of UNIX file management concepts.
..- Use of autonomous and reliable storage media.
..- Multi-user environment.


..DoroFile is a software system that enables the new generation
..of
..optical memory storage devices to be used in a UNIX or
..UNIX-like
..programming environment. DOROFILE fully implements all UNIX
..file
..and directory concepts. It allows a totally transparent use of
..WORM disk under SunOS, by providing integration of the WORM
..file
..system under VFS (virtual file system). Optical volumes are
..shared
..by any workstation through NFS.


..- Language: C
..- Source Available: yes
..- Additional Requirements: SCSI boards, SCSI cable/optical
..drive
..- Platforms Supported: SPARC


..DoroTech
..344 Avenue Georges
..Clemenceau
..Nanterre, 92024 CEDEX France
..phone +33 1 46 14 88 00
..fax   +33 1 40 99 97 94
..http://www.dorotech.com

- Dr Razz - image viewer for MAC:


..- ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/pub/user-supported/razz
..- ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/razz
..- http://www.rad.washington.edu/DrRazzTest.html


..The author (Thurman Gillespy tg3@u.washington.edu) writes:

..Dr Razz is a 16 bit medical image display and analysis
..program for Macintosh computers. Dr Razz can window and
..level on full 16 bit image data in near real time on any
..Macintosh color computer. Images can be viewed individually,
..or an image series can be viewed in an image stack. The
..program attempts to automatically open CT and MRI images,
..and can usually handle different header sizes and byte order.
..The program can directly read the headers of images created
..with the GE Image Extract Tool, and can automatically handle
..compressed images created with this utility. Dr Razz is not a
..DICOM viewer, although it can probably automatically open many
..CT/MRI DICOM images if they are not compressed. An option for
..manually entering image parameters for problem files is
..available. Images can be saved as PICT files, and TIFF support
..will be added.

       - FDA approval for PACS and Related Devices:

..Guidance for the Comment and Review of 510(k)
..Notifications for PACS and Related Devices

..FDA Small Manufacturers Assistance
..phone (800) 638-2041
..fax   (800) 899-0381 (flash system for document delivery)
..fax   (301) 827-0111 (flash system for document delivery)

       - FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health

..http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/index.html

       - FDA Regulatory Affairs site

..Regulatory Forum BBS - modem (919) 848-9461

       - FDA and other Regulatory Affairs resources list

..http://www.dejarnette.com/users/efinegan/regulat.htm

       - FDA standards online

..Fedworld Gateway - modem (703) 321-8020
..telnet://fedworld.gov
..ftp://ftp.fedworld.gov
..http://www.fedworld.gov/

       - Fischer Imaging: (Digital Mammo)


..- http://www.fischerimaging.com/


       - FITS - Flexible Image Transport System - for astronomical data:


..- ftp://fits.cv.nrao.edu/fits
..- ftp://nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov/FITS
..- http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu:4321/fits/ FITS Browser


       - Eight inch floppy solutions for PC's:

..Microtek Conversion Systems
..940 Industrial Ave
..Palo Alto, Ca. 94303
..phone (415) 424-1174
..fax   (415) 424-1176

..8" drive and controller $2,095
..Format software each package $595-$695

..Computer Peripherals Unlimited
..2355 N. Steves Blvd, Suite C
..Flagstaff AZ 86004
..phone (602) 526-2261
..fax   (602) 773-9183

..8" drive and controller $1,245
..Format software ? included

       - Format Conversion Tools - see DICOM Conversion Tools.

       - General Electric:

..http://www.ge.com/
..http://www.ge.com/medical/ GE Medical Systems
..ftp://ftp.med.ge.com/ GE Medical Systems FTP Site
..http://www.crd.ge.com/ GE Corporate Research and Development

       - GEMS image format information contacts:

..GE Format Documents currently available:


..- 46-021852 Technicare Magnetic Tape Image Fmt
..- 46-021853 CT 8800 Image Data Fmt
..- 46-021854 CT 9000 Image Data Fmt
..- 46-021855 CT 9800 Image Data Fmt
..- 46-021856 CT Pace Image Data Fmt
..- 46-021862 MR Max  Image Data Fmt
..- 46-021858 MR Signa 4.x Mag Tape and Image Data Fmt
..- 46-021861 CT HLA/HSA MR Signa 5.x Image Data Fmt
..- 46-021863 CT HLA/HSA MR Signa 5.x Optical Disk Raw Partition
..- 46-021864 CT HLA/HSA MR Signa 5.x Image Extract Tool
..- 46-021865 CT HLA/HSA MR Signa 5.x DAT Archive Fmt
..- 46-021866 PET 4096 Plus and 2048 Plus Image Fmt
..- 46-269546 IDNet v2.0 Implementation Profiles


..Field engineers are now supposedly well informed about these
..documents and can obtain them directly for you. They are
..freely distributable.

..You can try calling GE documentation direct at:

..phone (800) 558-2040
..phone (414) 548-2520

..If these approaches doesn't work, try one of these guys.

..John Meissner
..Networks Technical Leader
..GE Medical Systems
..N25 W23255 Paul Road
..Pewaukee WI 53072
..phone (414) 896-2707
..email meissnerj@med.ge.com

..Alan Cuellar-Amrod
..CT OnLine Support
..GE Medical Systems
..email cuellara@iscmed.med.ge.com

       - General Electric, GEMS Ultrasound contact:

..email logiq@med.ge.com

       - Graphics file formats (gif,tiff,etc.)


..- http://cuisung.unige.ch/Img.File.Fmt.html
..- ftp://zamenhof.cs.rice.edu/pub/graphics.formats
..- http://www.boutell.com/boutell/png/ Portable Network Graphics
..format (PNG)
..- ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/ Portable Network Graphics
..format ftp site (PNG)
..- See also TIFF Specification Source
..- See also Relevant FAQ's
..- http://www.sandybay.com/pc-web/graphics_file_format.htm PC
..Webopedia - graphic file formats


       - Hierarchical Database Management System (astronomy images):


..- ftp://starlink-ftp.rl.ac.uk/pub/doc/star-docs/sun92.tex
..- http://star-www.rl.ac.uk/


       - HL7 standards:


..- http://dumccss.mc.duke.edu/standards/HL7/
..- ftp://dumccss.mc.duke.edu/standards/HL7/


       - Image Communication Information Board(ICIB) - information on
       standards:


..- http://icib.igd.fhg.de/icib/


       - Image guided surgery:


..- http://igs.slu.edu/
..- http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/demos/neurosurgery
..- http://cranium.unibe.ch/cas/


       - Image utilities - miscellaneous:


..- ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub3/simtel/win3/graphics/IMA20A.ZIP


       - Imagery Standards Management Committee (ISMC):


..- http://www-ismc.itsi.disa.mil/ - home page
..- http://www-ismc.itsi.disa.mil/misc/ftpage.html - ftp document
..library


       - Images - digitized mammograms:


..- no FTP site
..- 50 each, normal and cancer mammograms
..- digitized at 200 micrometers and 8 bits
..- provide them with an appropriate tape
..- Contact:

..Maria Kallergi, PhD
..Department of Radiology
..University of South Florida
..12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Box 17
..Tampa, FL   33612-4799
..phone (813) 975-7873
..fax   (813) 975-7831
..email kallergi@rad.usf.edu


       - Images - digitized mammograms - sites:


..- miasdb@icr.ac.uk (J.Suckling) (Normal and abnormal)
..- ftp://ftp.xray.hmc.psu.edu/mammo (10 Normal)
..- http://www.xray.hmc.psu.edu/
..- http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/


       - Images - medical - sites (may be out of date):


..- ftp://fokus.uke.uni-hamburg.de/.voxelman.images
..- ftp://rwja.umdnj.edu/pub
..- gopher://gopher.austin.unimelb.edu.au/11/images/petimages/
..- ftp://ftp.nihon-u.ac.jp/pub/data/MRIMonkeyHead
..- http://glia.med.nihon-u.ac.jp/MRIimages/index.html
..- ftp://decaf.stanford.edu/pub/images/medical/mri
..- ftp://eedsp.gatech.edu/database/images/wchung/medical
..- ftp://omicron.cs.unc.edu/pub/projects/softlab/CHVRTD/
..- http://foyt.indyrad.iupui.edu/medres/iurad2.html
..- http://www-ipg.umds.ac.uk/
..- http://www.stjosephs.london.on.ca/
..- http://www.santel.lu/SANTEL/imgrel/imagproc.html
..- http://chaos.uh.cwru.edu/uhweb1.html
..- http://pss023.psi.ch/
..- http://visual-ra.swmed.edu
..- http://www.rad.upenn.edu/rundle/InteractiveKnee.html
..- http://www.crd.ge.com/esl/cgsp/projects/medical/
..- ftp://ftp.med.ge.com/pub/DICOM/IMAGES
..- ftp://wuerlim.wustl.edu/pub/dicom/images/
..- http://mirage.umdnj.edu/
..- ftp://ftp.philips.com/pub/ms/dicom/Medical_Images/
..- http://radserv.med-rz.uni-sb.de


       - Intech:

..http://www.intech.it/welcome.html

..Lapo Bertini
..Intech Director of Marketing
..INTECH
..Via Degli Innocenti, 2
..50063 Figline Valdarno (Firenze)
..Italy
..phone +39-55-9544174
..fax   +39-55-9544788
..email lapus@intech.it

       - Interfile information contacts:

..Trevor Cradduck cradduck@irus.rri.uwo.ca
..Andrew Todd-Pokropek a.todd@ucl.ac.uk

       - Interfile sources -  see Nucmed ftp site at UWO.

       - InterFormat - qsh to Interfile conversion, ACR/NEMA to qsh, et al.


..- See also Qsh ftp site
..- http://nucmed.nyu.edu/NucMed/qshtape.html
..- medical image format translation program
..- automatically identifies and translates heterogeneous files
..- Motif interface for user browsing & image selection
..- input formats:

...- GE 8800 CT, 9800 CT, Advantage CT & MR, Signa MR
...- Technicare 2000 CT
...- Positron PET
...- Philips 300 Series CT
...- Trionix Triad SPECT
...- Siemens Somatom CT, Siemens Magnetom MR, CTI PET
...- Varian CTSIM
...- ACR-NEMA 1.0, ACR-NEMA 2.0, and AAPM/qsh

..- output formats:

...- AAPM/qsh
...- Interfile
...- ADAC Interfile
...- Varian CTSIM
...- DICOM 3.0
...- Vital Images VoxelView
...- Vital Ximatron



..David Reddy                       <--- USA contact
..Radio Logic Inc.
..P.O. Box 9665
..New Haven CT 06536
..phone  (203) 624-8113
..email  reddy@nucmed.med.nyu.edu

..Bartec Medical Systems Ltd.       <--- UK, Europe & Mideast
..Impression House
..Invincible Road
..Farnborough Hampshire
..GU14 7NP England
..email  bob@bartec.demon.co.uk

       - ISG:

..ISG Technologies Inc
..6509 Airport Rd.
..Mississauga, ONT L4V 1S7
..Canada
..phone (905) 672-2100

..http://www.isgtec.com/main.html

       - JPEG - Independent JPEG Group (IJG):

..Tom Lane jpeg-info@uunet.uu.net

       - JPEG Sources

.       - PVRG-JPEG CODEC:

...  - ftp://havefun.stanford.edu/pub/jpeg
...  - sequential DCT baseline,
...  - lossless modes.

..- IJG:

...  - ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg
...  - sequential DCT baseline,
...  - 12 bit DCT modes.
...  - progressive modes.

..- Cornell Lossless JPEG:

...  - ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/multimed/
...  - lossless modes.

..- DICOM version of Cornell Lossless JPEG from Brown:

...  - ftp://ftp.xray.hmc.psu.edu/dicom_software/Brown
...  - lossless modes.



       - Kermit distribution:


..- ftp://ftp.cc.columbia.edu/kermit


       - Kodak Photo CD Information sites:


..-
..http://www.kodak.com/productInfo/technicalInfo/photoCDPapers.shtml


       - Loral (Vantage PACS):


..- http://www.lmis.com/ - See also GEMS.


       - LUNIS - Loyola University Nuclear Medicine Information System


..- http://147.126.104.3/


..contact jhalama@lunis.nucmed.luc.edu (Jim Halama) for
..access, which is restricted ((708) 216-3777)

       - Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Resources:


..- http://www.nmr.utmb.edu/#mrass


       - Medical Image Networks - Commercial.


..- Medweb
..667 Folsom Street
..San Francisco CA 94107
..phone  (415) 541-9980
..fax    (415) 541-9984
..http://www.mednet.net
..email  jon@mednet.net


       - Medical imaging research - University of Leeds:


..- http://agora.leeds.ac.uk/comir/comir.html


.- Medical imaging resources - Japanese site:


..- Images and tools, including DICOM, Osiris, NIH Image.
..- ftp://ftp.kurume-it.ac.jp/.kenchan/ftp/pub/


       - Medical Informatics standards:


..- http://dumccss.mc.duke.edu/standards/
..- ftp://dumccss.mc.duke.edu/standards/


       - Medical Resources - Miscellaneous:


..-
..http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/units/medcntr/Lee/HOMEPAGE.HTML
..Medical Matrix
..- http://golgi.harvard.edu/biopages/medicine.html Virtual
..Library of Medicine
..- http://www.li.net/~edhayes/ed.html
..- http://enuxsa.eas.asu.edu/~wilkins Radiology links
..- http://www.netins.net/showcase/eri/ Electronic Resources


       - Multimedia Medical Reference Library:


..- http://www.med-library.com/


       - National Imagery Transmission Format Standards (NITFS):


..- http://www.tasc.com/NITFS/


       - NEMA Members' Sites:


..- http://www.nema.org/nema/medical/members/


       - Network hardware for PACS/telemedicine/WAN.

..John A. Hansen
..Networks Northwest Inc.
..PO Box 40209
..Bellevue Wa 98015
..phone  (800) 835-9462
..phone  (206) 641-8779
..fax    (206) 641-8909
..email  jahansen@networksnw.com

       - Neuroscience Resources List:


..- http://neuro.med.cornell.edu/VL/


       - New Tools:


..- http://www.newtools.com/ including FileIt TIFF screen capture
..for GE Advantage Windows


       - NIH Image - Macintosh image processing software:


..- http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image
..- ftp://zippy.nimh.nih.gov/pub/nih-image


       - NucMed Image - additions to NIH Image for NM:


..- http://165.134.33.50/NucMed_Image/NucMed_Image.html
..- ftp://165.134.33.50/pub/NucMed_Image/


       - Nucmed site at UWO (run by Trevor Cradduck (cradduck@uwo.ca)):


..- http://johns.largnet.uwo.ca/nucmed/index.html
..- ftp://uwovax.uwo.ca/PUB:[000000.NUCMED]
..- ftp://uwovax.uwo.ca/nucmed
..- ftp://uwovax.uwo.ca/nucmed/interfile


       - Open Information Interchange(OII) - information on image standards:


..- http://www2.echo.lu/oii/en/


       - Orthopaedic Biomechanics


..- http://cranium.unibe.ch/ Maurice E. Muller Institute


       - Osiris - see Papyrus and Osiris.

       - PACS - EurIPACS:


..- http://www.rad.unipi.it:7080/

..    - /works/imphone/presentation-imphone.html



       - Papyrus and Osiris:


..- http://expasy.hcuge.ch/www/UIN/UIN.html

...- Papyrus specifications for versions 2.1 and 3.
...- Osiris for Mac, PC and Unix (SunOS, Solaris, Dec).
...- Sample images for Dicom, Papyrus 2 and Papyrus 2.

..-
..ftp://expasy.hcuge.ch/pub/Osiris/Osiris-Mac/v3/Osiris-311-ppc.sea.hqx
..Mac PPC
..-
..ftp://expasy.hcuge.ch/pub/Osiris/Osiris-Mac/v3/Osiris-311-68k.sea.hqx
..Mac 68k
..- ftp://expasy.hcuge.ch/pub/Osiris/Osiris-Unix/ Various
..flavours


       - Pathology sites:


..- http://www.drmm.uniud.it/
..- http://www.uniud.it/drmm/drmmeng.html
..- http://www.uniud.it/drmm/anpat/gallery/pathpuzzle.html
..- http://www.osaka-med.ac.jp/omc-lib/path.html
..- http://www.med.uiuc.edu/PathAtlasf/titlePage.html
..- http://www.flightpath.com/Clients/Pisces/pdchome.htm
..- http://www.med.nagoya-u.ac.jp/pathy/pathy.html
..- http://www.bocklabs.wisc.edu/
..- http://www.ets.bris.ac.uk/mru.htm
..- http://www.bgsm.wfu.edu/
..- http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html
..- http://pandoras-box.bgsm.edu/
..- http://rmc-www.lbl.gov/
..-
..gopher://gopher.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de:70/7waissrc:/zent/rz/netz/spez/WAIS/r/RPMS-pathology.src
..- http://192.93.247.18/
..- http://count51.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html
..- http://count51.med.harvard.edu/BWH/
..- http://indy.radiology.uiowa.edu/VirtualHospital.html
..- http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/C_HOME.HTML


       - Penn State Radiology Web Server:


..- http://www.xray.hmc.psu.edu/


       - PET Sites:


..- http://www-pet.umds.ac.uk/pet-home.html
..- laxmi.nuc.ucla.edu:8000/lpp/
..- http://www.nucmed.buffalo.edu/cpethm.htm


       - Philips:

..http://www.philips.com

       - Philips Medical Systems:

..http://www.philips.com/ms
..http://www-eu.philips.com/ms European site
..http://www-us.philips.com/ms US mirror

..ftp://ftp.philips.com/pub/ms/dicom DICOM and images


       - Picker:

..http://www.picker.com

       - Photo CD:


..- See Kodak Photo CD


       - Photoshop Plugins (Commercial) for proprietary, ACR/NEMA and DICOM
       import.


..- ImportACCESS - from DesAcc

..A commercial Photoshop plugin that works with the many other
..programs that support the plugin format. Reads fixed format
..proprietary formats, and extra modules for ACR-NEMA 2.0,
..DICOM 3.0, Interfile 3.3 files are available. Particularly
..good at multi-slice images and color images, and clearly has
..a nuclear medicine bias to it. Well documented. Recommended.
..Note of potential bias - I was a beta tester.



       - Physics Sites:


..- http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/physics-services/
..- http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/physics-services/


       - Proprietary format conversion, general:

..Phil Femano
..Medical Imaging Consultants
..phone (201) 812-1122

       - Proprietary format conversion, Nuclear Medicine:

..Medical Imaging Technology Associates
..29 Main Street
..P.O. Box 197
..Mainland PA 19451
..phone (215) 513-0440
..fax   (215) 513-0442
..email  info@gammacon.com
..http://www.voicenet.com/~mita

..Images can be read from floppies, tapes, or networks on a PC.
..Import formats include:

..- Elscint SBACK (5.25")
..- Elscint UST   (5.25, 3.5")
..- Elscint RECord (5.25")
..- Gamma11 (5.25")
..- Picker PCS (5.25")
..- GE Starcam/StarII (3.5")
..- GE Plink (5.25, 3.5")
..- NIC (5.35")
..- Interfile (5.25, 3.5")
..- Medasys Paragon (5.25")
..- Siemens Microdelta (5.25")
..- Sophy F83 (5.25, 3.5")
..- Sophy NXT (5.25, 3.5")
..- ADAC (5.25")

..Export formats include:

..- TARGA (.TGA)
..- GIF
..- TIF
..- PCX
..- WPG
..- PICT (MAC)
..- Medvision*
..- Interfile
..- GE Starcam
..- Elscint
..- Siemens
..- Sopha
..- Gamma11

..8" floppy formats (Microtek Conversion Systems include:

..- Technicare
..- GE Star
..- Starcam
..- StarII
..- MDS
..- Toshiba
..- Elscint F1
..- Scintronix
..- Siemens
..- Gamma11
..- NIC
..- Picker PCS


       - Proprietary format conversion, ACR/NEMA (MedVision for Mac and
       Windows):

..(Was Evergreen Technologies, acquired by ...)
..IMNET Systems
..Jeffrey Siegel
..Main Street, PO Box 795
..Castine  ME 04421
..phone 207-326-8300
..fax   207-326-8333
..email jeffs@imnet.com

..Optical subsystems include:

..- GE Starcam
..- GE CT/MR
..- Siemens CT/MR

..Import formats include:

..- DEFF Ultrasound
..- DICOM
..- Elscint Nuclear
..- GE Starcam
..- GE CT 8800
..- GE CT 9800
..- GE CT HLA/HSA and MR Signa
..- Imatron CT
..- Interfile
..- Picker CT
..- Philips CT
..- Resonex MR
..- Siemens CT and MR
..- Siemens Icon Nuclear
..- Strichman Neuro 900 Nuclear
..- Toshiba Nuclear
..- Trionix Nuclear

..Export formats include:

..- Medvision format
..- ACR/NEMA

..Network capabilites include:

..- GE Starlink Agent
..- DICOM Agent (SCP)


       - Proprietary format conversion, Siemens Pioneer Opticals:

..Frithjof Kruggel
..Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
..email kruggel@cns.mpg.de

..Has reverse engineered the format sufficiently to extract
..images
..and can make the source code available (without support or
..docs)

       - Qsh ftp site:


..- http://nucmed.nyu.edu/NucMed/qsh.html
..- ftp://nucmed.med.nyu.edu/pub


...- /dist
.... compressed tar
...- /qsh
.... source



       - Radiological Society of North America - On-Line Sources:

.. This site is strongly recommended and has more points
.. to jump to than you could possibly imagine !!!


..- http://www.rsna.org
..- http://www.rsna.org/edu/internet/launchpad.html


       - Radiology Resources - Miscellaneous:


..- http://www.radiologist.com


       - Scanners for Xray films.

..Nathan Harris
..DBA Systems Inc.
..phone  (407) 727-0660
..email  nharris@dba-sys.com

..Lumisys
..225 Humboldt Court
..Sunnyvale CA 94089
..phone  (408) 733-6565
..http://www.lumisys.com/

..Cobrascan

..Vidar
..460 Spring Park Place
..Herndon VA 20170
..phone  (703) 471-7070
..fax    (703) 471-1165
..email  info@vidar.com
..http://www.vidar.com/

..XRS
..email xrs@netcom.com

       - Siemens:

..http://www.siemens.de/

       - Slides - 35mm - by Internet.

..Submit by ftp, receive by FedEx.

..Interlace Media
..Ernie Nathaniel
..phone  (204) 925-2330
..fax    (204) 261-6806
..email  ernie@interlace.mb.ca
..www    http://www.interlace.mb.ca/interlace/

       - SPIE -  International Society for Optical Engineering.

..http://www.spie.org
..info-mi Medical Imaging mailing list

       - SIMIS - UK PACS and Teleradiology Vendor.

..http://www.smimed.demon.co.uk/

       - Tape drive vendors - 9-track 1/2 inch.

..Power Computer Services           <--- $750 Qualstar 1054 SCSI
..Bill Power
..1132 Olympic Drive
..Corona CA 91719
..phone 800-323-0694
..phone 909-371-3992
..fax   909-371-1401
..email billp@powercomp.com (Bill Power)

..Bill is also working on an 9-track interface replacement
..to record on removable hard disk cartridges, to upgrade
..old equipment.

       - Tape drive emulators.

..Pertec 9-track interface to DAT, MOD, DICOM
..WORM emulator with MOD

..PBT Technologies
..phone (919) 544-4142
..fax   (919) 544-4585

       - Teleradiology equipment vendors.

..CompuMed Inc.
..Cary Cole
..1200 No El Dorado Pl
..Suite C300
..Tucson AZ 85715
..phone 602-544-0544
..fax   602-722-9096
..email compumed@indirect.com

..Images-On-Call.
..email IOC@ix.netcom.com

       - Teaching File - Index:


..- http://www.xray.hmc.psu.edu/public/tf.html


       - Teaching File - University of Washington:

..Run by mrich@u.washington.edu


..- http://www.rad.washington.edu/


..1.  Radiology Teaching File (CME credit)
..2.  Anatomy Teaching Modules
..3.  Radiology Exhibits from UW
..4.  Information on UW radiology residency/fellowship programs
..5.  Image processing software written by UW faculty

       - Teaching File - University of Western Ontario:


..- http://johns.largnet.uwo.ca


       - Telemedicine - DOD server


..- http://www.matmo.org/
..- http://www.dpsc.dla.mil/medical/dinpacs.html DIN-PACS RFP:
..Digital Imaging Network - Picture Archiving and Communications
..Systems


       - Telemedicine/Teleradiology/DICOM Resources


..- http://www.charm.net/~efinegan/pacspage.html
..- http://www.dejarnette.com/efinegan/pacspage.html


       - TIFF Specification Source - Tagged Image File Format:


..- ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff/TIFF6.ps.Z TIFF 6.0
..-
..http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/devrelations/PDFS/TN/TIFF6.pdf
..- http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/~ndr/tiff/index.html Unofficial
..TIFF Home Page
..- ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/tiff/ TIFF ftp site


       - Trex Medical:


..- http://www.thermo.com/subsid/txm.html


       - University of North Carolina SoftLab /usr/image package:


..- ftp://ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/projects/softlab/image/product/


       - Varian":


..- http://www.varian.fi/ Treatment Planning Stations
..- http://www.varian.com/ Oncology Systems


       - Vax help - "The Vax Book" by Joseph E St Sauver, U of Oregon:


..- ftp://decoy.uoregon.edu/pub/vaxbook/


       - Vax VMS Tools at ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/:


..- ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/unzip.exe VMS unzip
.. (download in binary format,then define
.. "unzip:==dev:[dir]unzip.exe")
..- ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/fileserv/uucode.zip VMS
..uuencode/uudecode
..- ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/fileserv/file.zip VMS FILE (changes
..attributes)
.. (not needed in VMS 6.1 and above, the SET FILE/ATT=... command
.. is builtin)
..- ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/fileserv/compress.zip VMS compress
..- ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/fileserv/gzip-1-2-4.zip VMS compress
..- ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/fileserv/vmstar.zip VMS tar


       - Video capture vendors

..Precision Digital Images
..6742 185th Ave. NE
..Suite 100
..Redmond, WA  98052
..phone 206-882-0218
..fax   206-867-9177
..email info@precisionimages.com
..http  http://www.precisionimages.com/

       - Viewer vendors for Mac and/or Windows:

..New Tools

..Includes FileIt GEMS AW TIFF screen capture.

..IMNET Systems
..(see Proprietary format conversion, ACR/NEMA (MedVision for Mac
..and Windows))

..Includes DICOM C-STORE Provider support.

..MultiView for Macintosh
..Image Data Corp.
..Don Alvarez
..11550 IH-10 West
..San Antonio, TX 78230-1024
..phone (210) 641-8340
..fax   (210) 641-7428

..Alice
..Hayden Image Processing Group
..P.O. Box 654
..Boulder, Colorado, USA
..phone (303) 449-3433
..fax   (303) 449-3772
..http://www.perceptive.com
..email help@perceptive.com

..SiteView (Windows and SunOS 4.x)
..Joe Shapiro
..phone (617) 674-2199
..fax   (617) 674-2217
..email gbb@ConSolve.com
..email joe@ConSolve.com
..demo
..ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/graphics/graphics/demo-packages/SiteView

       - Virtual Hospital - University Of Iowa:


..-
..http://indy.radiology.uiowa.edu/Providers/ProviderDept/InfoByDept.Rad.html
..radiology
..- http://everest.radiology.uiowa.edu/image.html imaging
..resource links


       - Visible Human CDROM

..Several vendors make various CDROM products containing
..sections from the Visible Human Project.


..- Research Systems Inc
.. email visible@rsinc.com
.. email peter@rsinc.com (Peter Hallett)
.. email denisef@rsinc.com (Denise Fields)

.. These CDs contain 1800+ axial images JPEG compressed,
.. as well as sagittal and coronal reconstructions. A
.. browser (specific to each platform Mac, Windows, Unix,
.. hence different disks) provides access to the images and
.. allows export in TIFF, PICT, GIF, Postscript, EPS,
.. and BMP formats. Each disk costs $495.

..- Expomed Inc
.. email expomed@interramp.com

.. The Visual Man CD contains over 1800 24 bit JPEG compressed
.. cryosection images and a Windows browser. $39.95


       - Visible Human Project


..- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

..    - /research/visible/visible_human.html
..    - /research/visible/visible_gallery.html

..- ftp://ftp.nlm.nih.gov/visible/bitmaps/ Sample images from set


..Dr. Michael J. Ackerman
..Project Officer, Visible Human Project
..National Library of Medicine
..8600 Rockville Pike
..Bethesda, MD 20894

..Need to sign an agreement with the NLM before one can
..transfer the 15 GB of data or buy tapes.

..Tape can be purchased from NTIS (301) 402-4100 in Unix
..tar format for $1000.

..See also Visible Human CDROM

       - Visible Human Project - Experiments


..- http://www.crd.ge.com/esl/cgsp/projects/vm/ CT 3D Visible Man
..- http://www.crd.ge.com/cgi-bin/vw.pl CT 3D Visible Woman
..- http://aperture.stanford.edu/~lorensen/vw/vw.html CT 3D
..Visible Woman


       - VisPoint - PC medical image viewer:


..- http://www.mite.net/afbs (Link outdated - no known
..replacement yet)

...- Has plug-in for DICOM files.
...- For windows.
...- Commercial, but demo sample available on-line.



       - Web Delivered Telemedicine and PACS:


..- http://www.mco.edu/iarc/telemed.html


       -  Window level software (12/16 bits ->8):


..- ftp://alvin.ach.uams.edu/pub/winlev.tar.Z (Includes images)
..- ftp://alvin.ach.uams.edu/pub/winlev-noimages.tar.gz


       - Wxwin software:


..- ftp://skye.aiai.ed.ac.uk/pub/wxwin


       - XRE - cardiac angio (division of TREX):


..- http://www.xre.com/ Home Page
..- http://www.xre.com/wp/wp-digimg.html White Papers


       - Xsee - X-windows based display program for raw images:


..- available from Stefan Thurnhofer thurn@amadeus.ece.ucsb.edu



    7.2 Relevant FAQ's

       - Archive-name: compression-faq/part[1-3]
       - Archive-name: graphics/ All graphics FAQs
       - Archive-name: graphics/faq
       - Archive-name: graphics/faq (HTML version)
       - Archive-name: graphics/fileformats-faq
       - Archive-name: graphics/fileformats-faq (HTML version)
       - Archive-name: graphics/resources-list/part[1-3]
       - Archive-name: image-processing/Macintosh
       - Archive-name: jpeg-faq
       - Archive-name: medical-image-faq/volume-visualization
       - Archive-name: medical-informatics-faq
       - Archive-name: pixutils-faq
       - Archive-name: sci-data-formats


       - DICOM FAQ

..  - http://www.xray.hmc.psu.edu/dicom/faq.html
..  - maintained by David Channin dsc@xray.hmc.psu.edu
..  - periodically posted to comp.protocols.dicom


       - FITS basics and information (periodic posting)

..- FITS (Flexible Image Transport System)
..- for astronomical data
..- periodically posted by
..      Barry Schlesinger bschlesinger@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
..- in sci.astro.fits,sci.data.formats


       - Teleradiology FAQ

..  - maintained by Phillip Berman compumed@indirect.com
..  - periodically posted to various groups including

..       - alt.image.medical
..       - sci.med.informatics
..       - sci.med.radiology
..       - sci.med.telemedicine




    7.3 Mailservers (see also DICOM Mailservers)

.- FAQ about email access to internet services:

..To find out more, fetch the relevant FAQ from the mailserver
..at "mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu" with a message body:

...send
...usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email

..Or ftp it from
.."ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email"

      - Ftpmail:

..Ftpmail is a service provided by some extremely generous
..sites that allow you to send ftp commands to them by email
..and the server executes the commands and sends the results
..back. Very few sites offer this because of the huge load
..and potential for abuse. I only mention it here because a
..lot of medical imaging people don't seem to have anonymous
..ftp access.

..To find out more, fetch the relevant FAQ from the mailserver
..at "mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu" with a message body:

...send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/faq

..The most commonly used site is "ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com" (send
.."help" (no quotes) in the message body).

       - HSPNET-L Hospital Computer Network Discussion Group and Data Base:

..Run by Don Parsons dfp10%albnydh2.bitnet@uacsc2.albany.edu.


..- To subscribe:

...To: listserv%albnydh2.bitnet@uacsc2.albany.edu
...Subject:
...SUBSCRIBE HSPNET-L your_full_name

..- For the monthly digest:

...To: listserv%albnydh2.bitnet@uacsc2.albany.edu
...Subject:
...AFD ADD HSP* DIGEST HSPNET-L

..- To contribute (if subscribed):

...To: hspnet-l%albnydh2.bitnet@uacsc2.albany.edu

..- To download from the LISTSERV Database:

...To: listserv%albnydh2.bitnet@uacsc2.albany.edu
...Subject:
...INDEX HSPNET-L
...GET <filename> <filetype>


..HSPNET-L is mirrored by "sci.med.telemedicine" Usenet
..newsgroup.

       - info-mi Medical Imaging mailing list:


..- To subscribe:

...To: info-mi-request@spie.org
...Subject:
...subscribe info-mi

..- To unsubscribe:

...To: info-mi-request@spie.org
...Subject:
...unsubscribe info-mi

..- To contribute:

...To: info-mi@spie.org

..- To a human list manager:

...To: info-mi-service@spie.org


       - Interfile mailing list:

..Don't know much about this list, but I am sure that
..atoddpok@medphys.ucl.ac.uk (Andrew Todd-Pokropek) would
..be able to fill you in on this.

       - Nucmed mailing list for medical physicists:


..- to subscribe:          nucmed-request@irus.rri.uwo.ca
..- to unsubscribe, etc.:  nucmed-owner@irus.rri.uwo.ca
..- to send to list:       nucmed@uwo.ca
..- the relevant human:    cradduck@uwo.ca (Trevor Cradduck)


..This list is not actually gated to "sci.med.physics",
..though Trevor often reposts significant items.

..See also Nucmed ftp site at UWO.

       - Radiation Safety Distribution list - RADSAFE:

..For Health Physicists, Medical Physicists, Radiological
..Engineers and others who have a professional interest in
..matters related to Radiation Protection.

..pet_mail-REQUEST@ncbapsun2.pet.wfu.edu

..Put request key word (help, subscribe, unsubscribe) in the
..body of the message, not the subject line.

       - PET Mail mailing list - Positron Emission Tomography:

..For Health Physicists, Medical Physicists, Radiological
..Engineers and others who have a professional interest in
..matters related to Radiation Protection.

..RADSAFE@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu

       - Radiologic Science Discussion Group - Radsci-L:

.. Discussion may choose to center around radiologic science
.. education, medical radiography, CT (computerized scanning),
.. MRI (magnetic resonance scanning), sonography, nuclear
.. medicine, radiation oncology, veterinary medicine, industrial
.. applications, radiologic patient care, etc.


..- command address:   listserv@western.tec.wi.us
..- commands:          in message body not subject
..- list name:         Radsci-L
..- to subscribe:      subscribe Radsci-L firstname lastname
....    (NB. not your email address, that is
....     derived from the 'From ' header line)


       - sci.med.radiology gateway:

..sci.med.radiology@news.cs.indiana.edu


    7.4 References

       - PACS Publications:

..Understanding PACS:Picture Archiving & Communications Systems

..available for $5 from SCAR - Society for Computer Applications
..in Radiology:

       - Telemedicine Publications:

..Rural TeleHealth:Telemedicine,Distance Education &
..Informatics for Rural Health Care, A Report of the Office
..of Rural Health Policy Health Resources and Services
..Administration, DHSS (Nov,1993)

..available for $8 from:

...WICHE Publications
...Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
...P.O. Drawer P
...Boulder, CO  80301-9752
...phone (303) 541-0290
...fax   (303) 541-0291

       - Wavelet compression publications:

..Press, et al. Numerical Recipes in C.
..Chapter 13.10. Wavelet Transforms.

..Cody,MA. The Wavelet Packet Transform.
..Dr. Dobb's Journal, April '94

    7.5 Organizations, Societies and Journals

       - IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

..Mike Vannier
..Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
..Washington University Medical Center
..510 South Kingshighway Blvd.
..St. Louis, MO 63110

       - SCAR - Society for Computer Applications in Radiology

..4750 Lindle Road,
..P.O. Box 8800
..Harrisburg, PA 17105-8800
..phone 717-561-5266
..fax   717-561-5360
..email 73531.1173@compuserve.com
..email tg3@u.washington.edu (Thurman Gillespy).



.       - Web server is at http://www.scar.rad.washington.edu/

.       - Official journal is the "Journal of Digital Imaging".

.       - Last meeting was S/CAR'94 held in Winston-Salem,
..North Carolina during June 1994.

.       - (membership is considered mandatory for FAQ readers :) )



    7.6 Usenet Newsgroups

       - alt.graphics.pixutils
       - alt.image.medical
       - alt.med.equipment
       - comp.graphics
       - comp.graphics.algorithms
       - comp.graphics.pixutils
       - comp.graphics.research
       - comp.protocols.dicom
       - sci.data.formats
       - sci.med.emergency
       - sci.med.informatics
       - sci.med.physics
       - sci.med.radiology
       - sci.med.telemedicine
       - sci.med.vision


The next part is part8 - DICOM information sources.

