1. Introduction to SCAR 2001: The 18th symposium for computer applications in radiology

   • Byrn Williamson
   • Nicholas Hangiandreou
   • Steve Langer

   Introduction to Scar 2001: The 18th Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology Pages: 1 - 1

2. SCAR 2001 program committee

   Introduction to Scar 2001: The 18th Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology Pages: 2 - 2

3. Digital practice planning/DICOM structured reporting digital radiology equipment acquisition and installation procedures: A team approach at mayo clinic, Rochester, MN

   • Suzanne Ramthun
   • Claire E. Bender
   • Michele Back

   Session 1: Digital Practice Planning/DICOM Structured Reporting Pages: 3 - 5

4. Evaluating a voice recognition system: Finding the right product for your department

   • Mary Freeh
   • Matt Dewey
   • LuAnn Brigham

   Session 1: Digital Practice Planning/DICOM Structured Reporting Pages: 6 - 8

5. Planning for a multi-imaging center picture archiving and communications system

   • Gary Reed
   • Edward M. Smith

   Session 1: Digital Practice Planning/DICOM Structured Reporting Pages: 9 - 11

6. Integrating Digital Imaging and Communications In Medicine (DICOM)-structured reporting into the hospital environment

   • Dezso Csipo
   • Ruth E. Dayhoff
   • Peter M. Kuzmak

   Session 1: Digital Practice Planning/DICOM Structured Reporting Pages: 12 - 16

7. Tools to manage the enterprise-wide picture archiving and communications system environment

   • Louis M. Lannum
   • Shirley Gumpf
   • David Piraino

   Session 2: Quality Assurance in the Digital Practice Pages: 17 - 21

8. Quality-control issues on high-resolution diagnostic monitors

   • Laurence F. Parr
   • Amanda L. Anderson
   • Pamela Fetherston

   Session 2: Quality Assurance in the Digital Practice Pages: 22 - 26

9. Calibration of medium-resolution monochrome cathode ray tube displays for the purpose of board examinations

   • Michael G. Evanoff
   • Hans Roehrig
   • Christopher Merritt

   Session 2: Quality Assurance in the Digital Practice Pages: 27 - 33

10. An overview of a picture archiving and communications system procurement

    • Jane Essen
    • Thomas Hough

    Session 3: Business and Medical-Legal Issues Pages: 34 - 39

11. How many people does it take to operate a picture archiving and communication system?

    • Rosemary Honea

    Session 3: Business and Medical-Legal Issues Pages: 40 - 43

12. Developing policies and procedures for a picture archiving and communication system

    • Benet Gaytos

    Session 3: Business and Medical-Legal Issues Pages: 44 - 47

13. A comparison of image characteristics and convenience in panoramic radiography using charge-coupled device, storage phosphor, and film receptors

    • Allan G. Farman
    • Taeko Takemori Farman

    Session 4: Image Acquistion and Processing Pages: 48 - 51

14. Elastic registration of x-ray mammograms and three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging data

    • N. V. Ruiter
    • T. O. Müller
    • W. A. Kaiser

    Session 4: Image Acquistion and Processing Pages: 52 - 55

15. A Bayesian network for diagnosis of primary bone tumors

    • Charles E. Kahn Jr
    • John J. Laur
    • G. F. Carrera

    Session 4: Image Acquistion and Processing Pages: 56 - 57

16. A use of a neural network to evaluate contrast enhancement curves in breast magnetic resonance images

    • D. Vergnaghi
    • A. Monti
    • R. Musumeci

    Session 4: Image Acquistion and Processing Pages: 58 - 59

17. Study and status consistency duplicate-read protection in a distributed architecture

    • Brain Graf
    • Rebecca Mendenhall
    • Richard Wiggins

    Session 5: Digital Technologies Pages: 60 - 62

18. Enterprise-class digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) image infrastructure

    • Gary York
    • Joe Wortmann
    • Razvan Atanasiu

    Session 5: Digital Technologies Pages: 63 - 65

19. Puncture-proof picture archiving and communication system

    • Charles E. Willis
    • Charles W. McCluggage
    • Bruce R. Parker

    Session 5: Digital Technologies Pages: 66 - 71

20. Finding the optimal picture archvingand communciation system(PACS)architecture: A comparison of three PACS designs

    • Wyatt M. Tellis
    • Katherine P. Andriole

    Session 5: Digital Technologies Pages: 72 - 76

21. The Radiological Society of North America’s medical image resource center: An update

    • Eliot Siegel
    • Bruce Reiner

    Session 5: Digital Technologies Pages: 77 - 79

22. Designing fault-tolerant distributed archives for picture archiving and communication systems

    • Rebecca Mendenhall
    • Matt Dewey
    • Ian Soutar

    Session 5: Digital Technologies Pages: 80 - 83

23. Management of the picture archiving and communications system archive at Texas Children’s Hospital

    • Maria Elissa E. Blado

    Session 5: Digital Technologies Pages: 84 - 88

24. What digital imaging and communication in medicine (DICOM) could look like in common object request broker (CORBA) and extensible markup language (XML)

    • Andrew Van Nguyen
    • David E. Avrin
    • Ronald L. Arenson

    Session 5: Digital Technologies Pages: 89 - 91

25. Integrating digital educational content created and stored within disparate software environments: An extensible markup language (XML) solution in real-world use

    • Mark S. Frank
    • Thomas Schultz
    • Keith Dreyer

    Session 6: Digital Practice Applications—Education Pages: 92 - 97

26. Integrating digital teaching-file systems with off-the-shelf presentation software to facilitate speaker-led conferences

    • Mark S. Frank
    • Thomas Schultz
    • Keith Dreyer

    Session 6: Digital Practice Applications—Education Pages: 98 - 101

27. Automatic generation of teaching files during routine clinical dictation

    • Gary Wendt
    • Timothy Kulbago
    • Wally Peppler

    Session 6: Digital Practice Applications—Education Pages: 102 - 103

28. Assessing portal design skills in the radiation oncology interactive case management examination

    • Michael G. Evanoff
    • David H. Hussey
    • David Brown

    Session 6: Digital Practice Applications—Education Pages: 104 - 107

29. Beyond the electronic textbook model: Software techniques to make on-line educational content dynamic

    • Mark S. Frank
    • Keith Dreyer

    Session 6: Digital Practice Applications—Education Pages: 108 - 112

30. Empowering radiologie education on the internet: A new virtual website technology for hosting interactive educational content on the world wide web

    • Mark S. Frank
    • Keith Dreyer

    Session 6: Digital Practice Applications—Education Pages: 113 - 116

31. “WWW.MDTF.ORG”: A world wide web forum for developing open-architecture, freely distributed, digital teaching file software by participant consensus

    • Gregory L. Katzman
    • Danielle Morris
    • H. Ric Harnsberger

    Session 6: Digital Practice Applications—Education Pages: 117 - 120

32. Research and teaching access to a large clinical picture archiving and communication system

    • Marc Harrison
    • Justin Koh
    • David S. Channin

    Session 6: Digital Practice Applications—Education Pages: 121 - 124

33. Electronic teaching files: Seven-year experience using a commercial picture archiving and communication system

    • Eliot Siegel
    • Bruce Reiner

    Session 6: Digital Practice Applications—Education Pages: 125 - 127

34. Digital radiography and film scanners: Automating the transition to filmless radiology

    • Duane Dzingle
    • Gerald A. May
    • Harry T. Garland

    Session 7: Evaluation of Systems and Workflow Pages: 128 - 130

35. An academic radiology information system (RIS): A review of the commercial RIS systems, and how an individualized academic RIS can be created and utilized

    • Eric P. Tamm
    • Akira Kawashima
    • Paul Silverman

    Session 7: Evaluation of Systems and Workflow Pages: 131 - 134

36. Automating clinically relevant prefetch processes in picture archiving and communciation systems solutions

    • John T. Donnelly
    • Quentin Anderson

    Session 7: Evaluation of Systems and Workflow Pages: 135 - 139

37. Support of clinician image-related workflow by a user-edited, web-based Patient List Manager

    • Barton L. Guthrie
    • Chris Price
    • Eric Backehsto

    Session 7: Evaluation of Systems and Workflow Pages: 140 - 142

38. Automated examination notification of Emergency Department images in a picture archiving and communication system

    • Katherine P. Andriole
    • David E. Avrin
    • Todd M. Bazzill

    Session 7: Evaluation of Systems and Workflow Pages: 143 - 144

39. Distance learning in the digital environment

    • Richard H. Wiggins
    • Gregory L. Katzman
    • H. Christian Davidson

    Session 8: Digital Practice Applications—RIS, PACS, and EMR Pages: 145 - 146

40. Using digital certificates for radiology result receipt confirmation

    • Gary Wendt
    • Timothy Kulbago
    • Wally Peppler

    Session 8: Digital Practice Applications—RIS, PACS, and EMR Pages: 147 - 148

41. Functional requirements of a desktop clinical image display application

    • Bradley J. Erickson
    • William J. Ryan
    • Dale G. Gehring

    Session 8: Digital Practice Applications—RIS, PACS, and EMR Pages: 149 - 152

42. Minimizing Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Modality Worklist patient/study selection errors

    • Peter M. Kuzmak
    • Ruth E. Dayhoff

    Session 8: Digital Practice Applications—RIS, PACS, and EMR Pages: 153 - 157

43. A web Implementation: The Good and The Not-So-Good

    • Candice Bergsneider
    • David Piraino
    • Michelle Fuerst

    Session 8: Digital Practice Applications—RIS, PACS, and EMR Pages: 158 - 159

44. Picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) in private practice: St. Paul radiology PACS project

    • Ross T. Sutton
    • Robert G. Rasmussen
    • Jack D. Rietschel

    Session 9: Experience in Digital Practice Implementation Pages: 160 - 162

45. The legnano radiology picture archiving and communication

    • Elena Cossa
    • Umberto Ferri
    • Paolo Bernardini

    Session 9: Experience in Digital Practice Implementation Pages: 163 - 166

46. Trials and tribulations in deploying digital imaging network and picture archiving and communication system—film to filmless in 80 days

    • Laurence F. Parr
    • Phillip L. Liotta
    • Amanda L. Anderson

    Session 9: Experience in Digital Practice Implementation Pages: 167 - 170

47. The process of transitioning to digital operations in a clinic setting

    • Mary Freeh
    • James McFall
    • Alex Nieves

    Session 9 Experience in Digital Practice Implementation Pages: 171 - 174

48. Image distribution in a multi-facility radiology practice

    • Bradford Richmond
    • David Piraino

    Session 9 Experience in Digital Practice Implementation Pages: 175 - 176

49. The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center digital imaging network, picture archival and communication system, and radiology information system

    • Alberto F. Goldszal
    • Gary K. Brown
    • Edward V. Staab

    Session 9 Experience in Digital Practice Implementation Pages: 177 - 181

50. Combining speech recognition software with digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) workstation software on a microsoft windows platform

    • Randy Ernst
    • Walter Carpenter
    • Scott Wheeler

    Scientific Posters and Demonstrations Pages: 182 - 183