OsiriX

OsiriX
OsiriX
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Stable release 3.9.2 / June 15, 2011[1]
Operating system Mac OS X
Type Medical
License GNU General Public License
Website http://www.osirix-viewer.com

OsiriX is an image processing application dedicated to DICOM images (".dcm" / ".DCM" extension) produced by medical equipment (MRI, CT, PET, PET-CT, ...). Osirix is complementary to existing viewers, in particular to nuclear medicine viewers. It can also read many other file formats: TIFF (8,16, 32 bits), JPEG, PDF, AVI, MPEG and Quicktime. It is fully compliant with the DICOM standard for image communication and image file formats. OsiriX is able to receive images transferred by DICOM communication protocol from any PACS or medical imaging modality (STORE SCP - Service Class Provider, STORE SCU - Service Class User, and Query/Retrieve) .

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History

The OsiriX project started in 2004 at UCLA with Dr Antoine Rosset and Prof. Osman Ratib[2]. OsiriX has been developed by Rosset, working in LaTour Hospital (Geneva, Switzerland) and Joris Heuberger, a computer scientist from Geneva.

In 2010, a version of OsiriX for iPhone and iPod touch was released.

A complete history of OsiriX is available here: http://www.osirix-viewer.com/UserManualIntroduction.pdf

Features

OsiriX has been specifically designed for navigation and visualization of multimodality and multidimensional images: 2D Viewer, 3D Viewer, 4D Viewer (3D series with temporal dimension, for example: Cardiac-CT) and 5D Viewer (3D series with temporal and functional dimensions, for example: Cardiac-PET-CT). The 3D Viewer offers all modern rendering modes: Multiplanar reconstruction (MPR), Surface Rendering, Volume Rendering and Maximum intensity projection (MIP). All these modes support 4D data and are able to produce image fusion between two different series (for example: PET-CT).

Osirix is simultaneously a DICOM PACS workstation for medical imaging and an image processing software package for medical research (radiology and nuclear imaging), functional imaging, 3D imaging, confocal microscopy and molecular imaging.

Osirix supports a complete plug-in architecture that allows one to expand the capabilities of OsiriX for personal needs. OsiriX is released under a free software licence and runs under Mac OS X.

OsiriX Foundation

In 2008, the OsiriX Foundation was founded[3]. OsiriX Foundation will promote research and development and distribution of software tools for scientific and medical applications. It will host and help to promote research projects in Open Source software development for medical applications.

Usage as a medical device

The usage of software for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes is regulated by authorities. There are certified versions available which are labeled as Medical Device class II (FDA, USA) and class IIb (CE-Label, Europe) for clinical use. Pixmeo SARL <http://www.pixmeo.com> distributes OsiriX MD, a FDA cleared version.

See also

External links

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ Journal of Digital Imaging: OsiriX: An Open-Source Software for Navigating in Multidimensional DICOM Images
  3. ^ OsiriX Foundation - Excerpt of the Commercial Register of the State of Geneva, Switzerland

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