Automated hands-free image manipulation and viewing: a useful macro feature that assists radiologists in the viewing of chest and extremity digital radiographs.

The authors present an adaptation of the macro recording feature on the Siemens Magic View 1000 workstation, which, with the click of one button, launches a macro that performs 3 clinically useful image manipulations. Using a Magic View 1004 Siemens unix workstation, the following Macro sequence was programmed: (1) select all images, (2) reverse grayscale, (3) edge enhancement, (4) display full-resolution all screens, (5) reverse grayscale, (6) enable zoom/pan function. This sequence of commands takes 11 seconds to complete for a 2-view chest x-ray, and 16 seconds for a 3-view hand series.