A Workflow for Ensuring DICOM Compatibility During Radiography Device Software Development.

In medical devices, nonconformance with Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard is a serious risk. DICOM nonconformance radiology devices could cause undetected image loss, increasing examination time, and costs in health centers and could even result in the wrong patient treatment. However, there is a rich literature on medical standards that identify the best practices for producing safe and effective medical software.

Unified Open Hardware Platform for Digital X-Ray Devices; its Conceptual Model and First Implementation.

Background: Digital radiography devices are still the gold standard for diagnosis or therapy guidance in medicine. Despite the similarities between all direct digital x-ray systems, researchers and new companies face significant challenges during the development phase of innovative x-ray devices; each component is manufactured independently, guidance towards device integration from manufacturers is limited, global standards for device integration is lacking.

Method: In scope of this study a plug-integrate-play (PIP) conceptual model for x-ray imaging system is introduced and implemented as an open hardware platform, SyncBox.

iBEX: Modular Open-Source Software for Digital Radiography.

A device-independent software package, named iBEX, is developed to accelerate the research and development efforts for X-ray imaging setups such as chest radiography, linear and multidirectional tomography, and dental and skeletal radiography. Its extension mechanism makes the software adaptable for a wide range of digital X-ray imaging hardware combinations and provides capabilities for researchers to develop image processing plug-ins. Independent of the X-ray sensor technology, iBEX could integrate with heterogeneous communication channels of digital detectors.

Efficiency and reporting confidence analysis of sequential dual-energy subtraction for thoracic x-ray examinations.

We aimed to report and compare accuracy, reproducibility, and reporting confidence between thoracic dual-energy subtraction (DES) and routine posterior-anterior chest radiography (PA-CR) techniques. We obtained DES (D1-D4) images from 96 patients using DES and a high-resolution dynamic flat-panel detector in combination. We compared the DES images of these patients with their PA-CR images.