Using the MIRC DICOM Service for Clinical Trials to Automatically Create Teaching File Cases from PACS

Introduction

•Teaching files are present in most Radiology departments. Radiologists have always collected interesting cases for teaching purposes or for use in presentations and publications.

•In the past these teaching file were made of copied films, in the recent past with the advent of PACS teaching file are becoming digital. Several systems have been used to distribute these images over the internet.