How to View Images on Your CD
File
Room Hours:
7 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday – Friday
(907) 212-3144 to request films, reports
(907) 212-3119 fax
picfileroom@provak.org
The File Room provides patients
and clinicians CDs
of exams performed at PIC. Most exams
are stored in a digital
format, and no longer automatically
printed to film.
These discs can contain one
or many exams, and include an autoloading
program that will work on Windows
based PCs that run Windows 98 or
later, and Internet Explorer 5.0 or later. They are DICOM compliant,
and can be taken to other healthcare
facilities that utilize digital
imaging to be compared.
How to use the CD viewing software
If you are having trouble viewing the images on the CD, be sure you are running a PC with Windows 98 or later, and with Internet Explorer 5.0 or later. Some machines require that you log in as the Administrator first, then pop in the CD. It will load a file that it needs to run, and should load with no problem afterwards, even when you are not logged on as Administrator (clinicians, you may need to contact your IT person to do this).
Also, be sure you are clicking the button on the upper left of your screen labeled "View Images". This will load the actual viewing software called e-Film Lite. It contains a series of tools that will allow you to view each exam, its series and the images that belong to the series (MRI, CT and PET-CT studies have lots of images, whereas a simple chest x-ray may only have two). You can also select images in the bottom right corner with a mouse click, and then print them to a printer. You can also save the images you want as a .JPG file, or make an .AVI movie (for exams with multiple images). If you have any questions, please call Nathan Switzer at (907) 212-6032, or look at this PDF file for some help.
Apple Macintosh Users
CDs of exams are a great way for
patients to view their exams on
their home PC, and are formatted
in such a way that other healthcare
facilities can view the images easily.
Unfortunately, the viewing program
that automatically loads once the
CD is inserted is not compatible
with Apple Macintosh computers.
There is a shareware program called Osirix that
Mac users can download at no cost
that will allow them to view the
images.
Click
here to visit the site and download
the software.
