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Subject: Medical Image Format FAQ, Part 7/8
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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 BBLImage - See also 3DVIEWNIX - See also ANALYZE from
Mayo - See also volume-visualization FAQ - See also
NeuroModeller from Andrew Miller at Cornell -
http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~rwp/stradx/ Stradx 3D Ultrasound
Acquisition and Visualization Tool -
http://www.ablesw.com/3d-doctor/ 3D-Doctor PC 3D Application
(TIFF,DICOM) - http://members.tripod.com/tonyrudd/ Radiological
Analysis Tool (DICOM files,MPR,MIP) -
http://www.alphatecltd.com/ EIKONA3D software for (volumetric)
image processing, analysis, visualization (Confocal
Microscopy,CT,MR) - See also Visualization Toolkit (VTK) from GE
CRD and Kitware - See also etdips Exploratory 2/3D Image
Processing System from NIH windows software for volume analysis
and visualization

- 3DVIEWNIX (University of Pennsylvania):

- 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/departments/stand_accred/standards/pdf_standards/telerad.pdf

- ADAC:

- http://www.adaclabs.com/

- Agfa:

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

- ALI - Ultrasound PACS, DICOM WinVIEW:

- http://www.alitech.com/ - mailto:[email protected]

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 [email protected] Richard Smillie http://webrad.com

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

- http://www.mayo.edu/bir/ - See also ANALYZE from other format
convertors - See also SPM Brain Imaging Software

- ANALYZE from other format convertors and further format information

- See DICOM resources - Chris Rorden - MRIcro convertor -
http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/mricro.html#otherconv
- http://petaxp.rug.ac.be/~nolf/welcome.html#CONVERSION - See
also SPM Brain Imaging Software -
http://www.fil.ion.bpmf.ac.uk/spm/distrib.html#AzeFmt -
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/Imaging/analyze_fmt.htm

- 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
[email protected]

VoxelMan Atlas Springer-Verlag, Electronic Media 175 Fifth
Avenue New York, NY 10010 phone (212) 460-1682 phone (212) 533
5587 email [email protected]

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

- BBLImage:

- OpenSource for Linux and Solaris from the Brain Behavior
Laboratory, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania -
BBLimage is a collection of image processing tools for
extracting the brain volume from MRI images and segmenting it
into CSF and gray and white matter - ANSI C and Python - Sample
brain volume datasets available also -
http://www.med.upenn.edu/bbl/publications_downloads/downloads/software.shtml

- Blood flow modelling:

- [email protected] (George Foutrakis) -
http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~georgef

- CEN TC 251European Healthcare Informatics Standards:

- http://www.centc251.org/

- Coding schemes:

- http://www.snomed.org/ SNOMED -
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/UMLSDOC.HTML UMLS -
http://www.ama-assn.org/med-sci/cpt/cpt.htm CPT (official) -
http://otpt.ups.edu/Health_Policy/icd-9andcpt.html CPT,
ICD-9,ICD-9-CM download -
ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Publications/ICD9-CM/
ICD-9-CM - http://www.mcis.duke.edu/standards/termcode/icd9/
ICD-9-CM links (Duke) -
http://www-informatics.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/icd9/refs.htm ICD-9,
ICD-10 links (UCDMC) -
http://www.regenstrief.org/loinc/loinc.htm LOINC -
http://aurora.rg.iupui.edu/UCUM/ Unified Code of Units of
Measurement (UCUM) - http://www.eicd.com/ Coding resources
(commercial, but some free on-line capabilities)

- Color Space Transformations:

- http://home.earthlink.net/~janos1/vidpage/color_faq.html

- Compression information and software:

- See also
http://www.sr3.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~arimura/compression_links.html
Mitsuhara Arimura's definitive list of compression links. - 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

- 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:

- Lossless Image Compression Links:

- http://theory.cs.uni-bonn.de/~yasha/limcomplinks.html
Yakov Nekrich

- 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

- Gzip and zlib (also used in PNG image file format):

- http://www.gzip.org/ Gzip home page -
http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/ Zlib home page
- http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/ Infozip working
group home page

- Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT):

-
http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/abstracts/src-rr-124.html
Burrow's and Wheeler's technical report -
http://www.dogma.net/markn/articles/bwt/bwt.htm Mark
Nelson's DDJ article -
http://www.dogma.net/markn/articles/bwt/bwtcode.zip Mark
Nelson's DDJ code -
http://www.datacompression.info/BWT.shtml Links and
references - http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/ Bzip2:
Julian Seward's BWT-based utility (with source code) -
http://www.zzip.f2s.com/ Zzip: Damien Debin's BWT-based
utility (with source code)

- Lossless and Lossy:

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

- JBIG:

- http://www.jpeg.org/public/jbighomepage.htm Home page
- ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/JBIG/
Standard and toolkit

- General resources:

- Compression pointers by [email protected] (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

- ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/compression-faq
compression-faq/part[1-3] - http://www.datacompression.info/
Data Compression Library (Mark Nelson) -
http://www.ddj.com/topics/compression/ DDJ's compression
page - http://www.ross.net/compression/ Dr. Ross's
Compression Crypt

- CT reconstruction software:

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

- ct.tar.Z - snark77.tar.Z SNARK77

- SNARK93

- http://mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu/snark/index.html no
longer free :(

- Data General PACS:

- http://www.dg.com/healthcare/html/healthcare_pacs.html - See
also MarkCare Medical Systems (PACS)

- 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 [email protected] email
[email protected]

- Data General themselves:

DG Direct phone 1-800-343-8842

- DEFF Contact - TIFF based portable ultrasound format:

- ATL - [email protected] 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
[email protected] (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 [email protected]

- Digital Mammography:

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

- Digital Radiography:

http://www.bh.rmit.edu.au/mrs/DigitalRadiography/ RMIT

- Display Performance, Calibration and Assessment:

- http://deckard.mc.duke.edu/~samei/tg18 AAPM Task Group 18 -
Assessment of Display Performance for Medical Imaging Systems

- 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:

- http://www.dr-razz.com/

The author (Thurman Gillespy III mailto:[email protected])
writes:

Dr Razz is freeware DICOM image viewer for MacOS computers.

Features

-interactive, real-time window/level adjustment for extended
grayscale images like CT and MRI scans -supports many image
formats common in radiology including DICOM 3.0 (single frame,
uncompressed), ACR/NEMA, GE, Siemens, Picker, Fuji, Cemax,
Lumysis -open and save 8/12-bit JPEG and 8/16-bit grayscale TIFF
files -image compression formats supported includes LZW, JPEG,
and deflate (gzip) BR> -image processing operations include
flip, rotate, invert, rescale, magnify/minify, sharpen, blur,
Laplacian, histogram equalization and adaptive histogram
equalization -advanced interactive unsharp mask and dynamic
compression (density correction) interface controls -optional
overlay of patient demographics -multiple images can be opened
into one window as an image series -image series can be saved as
QuickTime movies -JPEG compression supported for PICT, PICS and
QuickTime formats -fat binary (68K and PowerMac versions)

- ECG:

- See CEN TC 251 ENV 1064 Electrocardiography Standard

- Elscint:

http://www.elscint.co.il/

- etdips Exploratory 2/3D Image Processing System from NIH windows
software for volume analysis and visualization:

- http://www.cc.nih.gov/cip/software/etdips/

- 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

- Flow Cytometry tools and data format standards:

- http://www.isac-net.org/fcs3/FCS3.html Data File Standard for
Flow Cytometry, Version FCS3.0 - http://www.isac-net.org/
International Society for Analytical Cytology (ISAC) -
http://www.bio.umass.edu/mcbfacs/flowhome.html UMass/Amherst
Flow Cytometry Home Page -
http://www.bio.umass.edu/mcbfacs/flowcat.html Catalog of free
flow cytometry software

- Format Conversion Tools - see DICOM Conversion Tools.

- GammaPC Nuclear Medicine display and processing includes DICOM reader:

-
http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Medizin/Nuklearmedizin/Physik_EDV/gammapc.html

- General Electric:

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

- GEMS image format information:

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

You can try calling GE documentation direct at:

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

- 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://www.hl7.org/ HL7 - See also Duke links to health
informatics standards -
http://www.mcis.duke.edu/standards/HL7/hl7.htm HL7

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

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

- IEEE 754-1985 Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic:

- 754-1985 (R1990) IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point
Arithmetic (ANSI) 20 pages [1-55937-653-8] [SH10116-NYF] $29.00
* IEEE Mbr: $20.30

phone 1.800.678-IEEE (in the US and Canada) phone 732-981-0060
(outside of the US and Canada)

- Image analysis software:

- http://www.xinapse.com/ Xinapse software and consulting

- Image guided surgery:

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

- Image processing:

- http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2vrva/design.html Bicubic
spline interpolation

- 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 - digital mammography - sites:

- http://marathon.csee.usf.edu/Mammography/Database.html -
http://www.rose.brandeis.edu/users/mammo/digital.html

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

- 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 [email protected]

- Interfile information contacts:

Trevor Cradduck [email protected] Andrew Todd-Pokropek
[email protected]

- Interfile sources

- http://www.keston.com/Interfile/interfile.htm - the
explanation - http://www.keston.com/Interfile/ - the files -
http://www.keston.com/Phantoms/ - samples

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

- See also Qsh site - medical image format translation program -
supports IBM Data Explorer - 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 - Picker MR and CT - Positron PET -
Philips 300 Series CT - Trionix Triad SPECT - Siemens
Somatom CT, Siemens Magnetom MR, CTI PET - Varian
Ximatron CT simulator - Elscint SPECT (coming soon) -
ACR-NEMA 1.0, ACR-NEMA 2.0, DICOM 3.0 and AAPM/qsh

- output formats:

- AAPM/qsh - Interfile - ADAC Interfile - Mayo ANALYZE
(and SPM) - NetCDF and IDL - IBM Data Explorer - DICOM
3.0 - Vital Images VoxelView - Vital Ximatron

David Reddy <--- USA contact Radio Logic Inc. Maritime Knoll
Professional Centre 10 Bluff Ave., Suite 114 phone and fax
860-669-9080 email [email protected]
http://www.radio-logic.com

Bartec Medical Systems Ltd. <--- UK, Europe & Mideast
Impression House Invincible Road Farnborough Hampshire GU14 7NP
England email [email protected]

- IrfanView Windows viewer supports general and DICOM formats:

- http://members.home.com/rsimmons/irfanview/

- JPEG - Independent JPEG Group (IJG):

- ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/tg/tgl/ - Tom Lane
[email protected]

- JPEG Sources

- JPEG - Official Web Site:

- http://www.jpeg.org/ -
http://www.jpeg.org/public/jpeglinks.htm JPEG Links

- JPEGStandard ISO/IEC 10918-1

- http://www.w3.org/Graphics/JPEG/itu-t81.pdf ITU
T.81, which is the ITU version os ISO 10918-1
(identical text) -
http://www.jpeg.org/public/spiff.pdf 10918-3 SPIFF

- Stanford PVRG JPEG CODEC:

- sequential DCT baseline and lossless modes. -
ftp://havefun.stanford.edu/pub/jpeg (Original home,
seems to be permanently gone) -
http://archiv.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/graphics/jpeg/PVRG/
- http://www.dclunie.com/jpegge/JPEGv1.2.1.tar.gz
Mirror of PVRG code at FAQ site -
http://gatekeep.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/X11/Graphics/JPEG-1.2.1/
Modified for HPUX -
http://www.dclunie.com/jpegge/jpegpvrg.pdf Stanford
PVRG JPEG documentation converted to PDF -
http://www.dclunie.com/jpegge.html Patches to Stanford
PVRG JPEG to cope with GE Bugs in DICOM JPEG on MOD

- IJG:

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

- IJG Lossless Extension:

- ftp://ftp.oceana.com/pub/ -
ftp://ftp.oceana.com/pub/ljpeg-6b.tar.gz - Written by
Ken Murchison mailto:[email protected]

- 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.

- Pascal source of lossless JPEG code in Chris Rorden's ezDICOM
application:

- DICOM resources - Chris Rorden

- Commercial Toolkits for Lossless JPEG:

- Pegasys Imaging

- Arithmetic codec source to extend IJG:

- http://www.esc.de/homes/guivol/jpeg-ari/ -
http://workaholics.net/~guivol/jpeg-ari/

- JPEG-LS ISO/IEC 14495-1 Information and codecs:

- http://www.jpeg.org/public/fcd14495p.pdf JPEG-LS
Final Committee Draft - http://www.hpl.hp.com/loco/
JPEG-LS LOCO object code from HP -
http://www.dclunie.com/jpegls.html JPEG-LS source code
from David Clunie -
http://spmg.ece.ubc.ca/research/jpeg/jpeg_ls/jpegls.html
JPEG-LS source code from UBC (based on HP codec)

- JPEG 2000 ISO/IEC 15444-1 Information and codecs:

- http://www.jpeg.org/JPEG2000.htm Official home page,
Final Committee Draft - http://jj2000.epfl.ch/ JJ2000
Java implementation (reference implementation proposed
for Part 5) - http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper/
JasPer C implementation (reference implementation
proposed for Part 5) - http://www.imagepower.com/
Windows, Solaris and DSP codecs (related to JasPer) -
http://www.kakadusoftware.com/ Kakaducommercial codec
in C++ - http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-7923-7519-X book
on JPEG 2000 by David Taubman and Michael Marcellin
(includes kakadu source and non-commerical use
license) -
http://products.analog.com/products/info.asp?product=ADV%2DJP2000
JPEG 2000 hardware implementation - http://j2000.org/
Almacom JPEG-2000 library (open source, free for
commercial use) -
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/jai_imageio/
JavaTM Advanced Imaging Image I/O API -
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/specifications.html
Quicktime 6 includes JPEG 2000 -
http://www.intel.com/software/products/ipp/ipp30/samples.htm
Sample of coding JPEG 2000 on Intel IPP -
http://e-www.motorola.com/brdata/PDFDB/docs/AN2089.pdf
Sample of coding JPEG 2000 wavelet on Motorola
StarCore

- JPEG Optimization:

-
http://vision.arc.nasa.gov/~al/papers/im-com-web.htmlDCT
Quantization -
http://vision.arc.nasa.gov/dctune/DCTune information
and patent

- Kermit distribution:

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

- Kodak Photo CD Information sites:

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

- LUNIS - Loyola University Nuclear Medicine Information System

- http://147.126.104.3/

contact [email protected] (Jim Halama) for access,
which is restricted ((708) 216-3777)

- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Resources:

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

- MarkCare Medical Systems (PACS):

- See also Data General PACS. - MarkCare Medical Systems, Ltd
Headley House, Headly Road Grayshott, Hampshire, England GU26
6TU phone +44(0)1428 605030 -
http://www.mark-solutions.com/markcare/ - DICOM Conformance
Statement - MarkCare.

- 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
[email protected]

- Medical imaging research - University of Leeds:

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

- Medical imaging resources:

- http://www.idoimaging.com/index.shtml index of free medical
imaging software

- 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/

- NeuroModeller from Andrew Miller at Cornell:

- http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/amiller/index.html -
http://users.infohouse.com/amiller/home.htm

- 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 [email protected]

- 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

- NIH Image/J - Java image processing software:

- http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/

- 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/

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

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

- Ophthalmology sites:

- http://www.vcomsystems.com/ VCOM Systems Tele-ophthalmology

- 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://www.expasy.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/

- Pathology sites:

- http://www.uniud.it/drmm/anpat/pathgallery/ -
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

- Pegasys Imaging commercial compression software:

4010 Boy Scout Blvd, Suite 400 Tampa, Florida 33607 phone (813)
875-7575 or (800) 875-7009 fax (813) 875-7705 email
[email protected] http://www.jpg.com/

- 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected]

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 [email protected]

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

- Qsh site:

- http://www.it.kth.se/~noz/qsh_dist/

- 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
[email protected]

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

Howtek, Inc 21 Park Avenue Hudson, NH 03051
http://www.howtek.com/ Jeff Wilson email [email protected]

Cobrascan Radiographic Digital Imaging Inc 1215 South Alameda
Street Compton CA 90220 phone (310) 639-4920 fax (310) 639-4963
email [email protected] http://www.cobrascan.com/

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

XRS email [email protected]

- Siemens:

http://www.siemens.de/

- SIMIS - UK PACS and Teleradiology Vendor.

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

- Slides - 35mm - by Internet.

Submit by ftp, receive by FedEx.

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

- SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering.

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

- SPM Brain Imaging Software

- http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/Imaging/ from the Medical
Research Council - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

- 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 [email protected] (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
[email protected]

Images-On-Call. email [email protected]

- Teaching File - Index:

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

- Teaching File - University of Washington:

Run by [email protected]

- 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

- Telemedicine Software - Telemis

- http://www.telemis.com/ DICOM receiver, security, compression
via email

- TIFF Specification Source - Tagged Image File Format:

- http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/pdfs/tn/TIFF6.pdf -
ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff/TIFF6.ps.Z TIFF 6.0 -
http://home.earthlink.net/~ritter/tiff/ Unofficial TIFF Home
Page - ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/tiff/ TIFF ftp site

- Toshiba:

- http://www.toshiba.com/tams/

- 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/

- Unique Patient Identifiers":

- http://www.ahima.org/publications/2f/feature.1099.2.html
Appavu's Journal of AHIMA article -
http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs/app0.htm Appavu's DHSS report

- 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:

- The original ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/ site seems to be dead, so
try: - ftp://ftp.tmk.com/vms-freeware/fileserv/ - or one of the
other mirrors listed at
http://www.goatley.com/fileserv//fileserv.html

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

- Of interest may be the site
http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/freeware/freeware.html

- Video capture vendors

Precision Digital Images 6742 185th Ave. NE Suite 100 Redmond,
WA 98052 phone 206-882-0218 fax 206-867-9177 email
[email protected] 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 [email protected]

SiteView (Windows and SunOS 4.x) Joe Shapiro phone (617)
674-2199 fax (617) 674-2217 email [email protected] email
[email protected] 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 [email protected] email [email protected] (Peter Hallett)
email [email protected] (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 [email protected]

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 - Chinese

- http://www.chinesevisiblehuman.com/index.asp?eng=eng Chinese
Visible Human

- Visible Human Project - Korean

- http://vkh3.kisti.re.kr/new/index.htmlVisible Korean Human

- 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://members.aol.com/VisPoint/

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

- Visualization Toolkit (VTK) from GE CRD and Kitware:

- http://www.kitware.com/vtk.html

- 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 [email protected]

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 [email protected] - 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 [email protected]
- in sci.astro.fits,sci.data.formats

- Teleradiology FAQ

- maintained by Phillip Berman [email protected] -
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
"[email protected]" 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
"[email protected]" with a message body:

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

The most commonly used site is "[email protected]" (send
"help" (no quotes) in the message body).

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

Run by Don Parsons dfp10%[email protected].

- To subscribe:

To: listserv%[email protected] Subject:
SUBSCRIBE HSPNET-L your_full_name

- For the monthly digest:

To: listserv%[email protected] Subject:
AFD ADD HSP* DIGEST HSPNET-L

- To contribute (if subscribed):

To: hspnet-l%[email protected]

- To download from the LISTSERV Database:

To: listserv%[email protected] 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: [email protected] Subject: subscribe info-mi

- To unsubscribe:

To: [email protected] Subject: unsubscribe
info-mi

- To contribute:

To: [email protected]

- To a human list manager:

To: [email protected]

- Interfile mailing list:

Don't know much about this list, but I am sure that
[email protected] (Andrew Todd-Pokropek) would be able
to fill you in on this.

- Nucmed mailing list for medical physicists:

- to subscribe: [email protected] - to unsubscribe,
etc.: [email protected] - to send to list:
[email protected] - the relevant human: [email protected] (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.

- PET Mail mailing list - Positron Emission Tomography:

PET Mail provides news and information of interest to the PET
(Positron Emission Tomography) imaging community.

[email protected]

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

- 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.

[email protected]

- 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: [email protected] - 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:

[email protected]

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

10105 Cottesmore Court Great Falls, Virginia 22066-3540 voice:
703-757-0054 fax: 703-757-0454 email: [email protected] web:
http://www.scarnet.org/

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

7.6 Usenet Newsgroups

- news:alt.graphics.pixutils or
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=alt.graphics.pixutils&hl=en -
news:alt.image.medical or
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=alt.image.medical&hl=en -
news:alt.med.equipment or
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=alt.med.equipment&hl=en -
news:comp.compression or
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.compression&hl=en -
news:comp.graphics or
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.graphics&hl=en -
news:comp.graphics.algorithms or
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.graphics.algorithms&hl=en -
news:comp.graphics.pixutils or
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.graphics.pixutils&hl=en -
news:comp.graphics.research or
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.graphics.research&hl=en -
news:comp.protocols.dicom or
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.protocols.dicom&hl=en -
news:sci.data.formats or
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=sci.data.formats&hl=en -
news:sci.med.emergency or
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=sci.med.emergency&hl=en -
news:sci.med.informatics or
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=sci.med.informatics&hl=en -
news:sci.med.physics or
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=sci.med.physics&hl=en -
news:sci.med.radiology or
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=sci.med.radiology&hl=en -
news:sci.med.telemedicine or
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=sci.med.telemedicine&hl=en -
news:sci.med.vision or
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=sci.med.vision&hl=en

The next part is part8 - DICOM information sources.