On Feb 8, 9:49*am, mkan...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Recently I released a simple DICOM viewer for educational use, after
> demand of many people.
> You can download the software (Sante DICOM Viewer EDU) from my site
> at:http://www.medisoft.gr/
>
> Best regards,
> Manos Kanellopoulos
> Biomedical Engineer
> Software Developer

Hi, Manos.
I recently downladed Sante EDU, and was quite favorably impressed with
it among the free DICOM viewers. Our company makes ultasound machines,
and your applicaiton was able to display them as well as any of the
free apps we have tried.

It did fail to do some imprtant things, however. Most important,
ultrasound multi-image files have time vectors in them for displaying
the loops. Your application, like every free application I've
encountered, does not use that infromation. So the loops are free-
running instead of reflecting the actual times of the sequence. If you
want to tweak your app, this would be a big improvement over the other
freebies.

Your application reads DICOMDIRs and displays the results in a very
useful way -- although I haven't figured out any use for the DICOMDIR
window that you display at the bottom of the screen. It does not
connect to the DICOMDIR that is opened in a separate dialog box, and
serves no working purpose that I could discern.

It would be wonderful if your applciation would be able to create new
DICOMDIRs, but I've never encountered a freebie that can do that. One
other set of really nice free tools is the measurement tools like
those that Philips provides in its free viewer (http://
http://www.medical.philips.com/main/.../connectivity/ scroll to the
bottom of the page and download Philips DICOM viewer. BTW, their
viewer only changes contrast and brightness on the currently-viewed
image in a loop -- an incredibly stupid thing to do. Other than that,
it's not an awful free viewer, either, and its measurement tools set
the standard for freebie viewers.)

One note to potential users -- we create palettized image data. Sante
can read that data properly. You need to go to the Image/Mode menu
item and select RGB Color in order to be able to adjust contrast and
brightness on such images. It works properly once you do that.

Thanks for making such a useful tool available!

--Tom Clune

Hi Tom,
thank you for your replay.

This tool is designed to be as minimal as possible because "people on
the courses tend to mess about with the buttons and muck up the
images!"
So I have kept only the absolute necessary functionality. That was the
specification for that kind of use.

> Your application reads DICOMDIRs and displays the results in a very
> useful way -- although I haven't figured out any use for the DICOMDIR
> window that you display at the bottom of the screen. It does not
> connect to the DICOMDIR that is opened in a separate dialog box, and
> serves no working purpose that I could discern.

If you have opened a DICOMDIR, this window displays the DICOMDIR's
contents and allows the user to select an other patient/study/series
that is contained in this DICOMDIR.
Of course you can hide it, if you do not use it.

> It would be wonderful if your applciation would be able to create new
> DICOMDIRs, but I've never encountered a freebie that can do that.

You can use one of my other programs in demo mode (the demos are time-
unlimited and this function is not locked, the DICOMDIR will be
valid).

Best regards,
Manos



On Feb 8, 5:58*pm, "tcl...@ieee.org" wrote:
> On Feb 8, 9:49*am, mkan...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
>
> > Recently I released a simple DICOM viewer for educational use, after
> > demand of many people.
> > You can download the software (Sante DICOM Viewer EDU) from my site
> > at:http://www.medisoft.gr/
>
> > Best regards,
> > Manos Kanellopoulos
> > Biomedical Engineer
> > Software Developer
>
> Hi, Manos.
> I recently downladed Sante EDU, and was quite favorably impressed with
> it among the free DICOM viewers. Our company makes ultasound machines,
> and your applicaiton was able to display them as well as any of the
> free apps we have tried.
>
> It did fail to do some imprtant things, however. Most important,
> ultrasound multi-image files have time vectors in them for displaying
> the loops. Your application, like every free application I've
> encountered, does not use that infromation. So the loops are free-
> running instead of reflecting the actual times of the sequence. If you
> want to tweak your app, this would be a big improvement over the other
> freebies.
>
> Your application reads DICOMDIRs and displays the results in a very
> useful way -- although I haven't figured out any use for the DICOMDIR
> window that you display at the bottom of the screen. It does not
> connect to the DICOMDIR that is opened in a separate dialog box, and
> serves no working purpose that I could discern.
>
> It would be wonderful if your applciation would be able to create new
> DICOMDIRs, but I've never encountered a freebie that can do that. One
> other set of really nice free tools is the measurement tools like
> those that Philips provides in its free viewer (http://www.medical.philips..com/main...ctivity/scroll to the
> bottom of the page and download Philips DICOM viewer. BTW, their
> viewer only changes contrast and brightness on the currently-viewed
> image in a loop -- an incredibly stupid thing to do. Other than that,
> it's not an awful free viewer, either, and its measurement tools set
> the standard for freebie viewers.)
>
> One note to potential users -- we create palettized image data. Sante
> can read that data properly. You need to go to the Image/Mode menu
> item and select RGB Color in order to be able to adjust contrast and
> brightness on such images. It works properly once you do that.
>
> Thanks for making such a useful tool available!
>
> --Tom Clune