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

Software Installation

•The MIRC software is written in Java and run under Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux, it requires that the Java 2 SDK 1.4 and Tomcat 4.1 are present on the system where the MIRC Site Software is being installed. The MIRC software includes several components among witch an authoring service and a MIRC DICOM Service for Clinical Trials.

•After installation, the MIRC DICOM service is configured to accept images from PACS (a DICOM Store AE Title and port is assigned to the MIRC Storage service). The Anonymizer for MIRC Clinical Trial Services is configured to eliminate protected patient informations, but to retain certain data such as: clinical history, imaging modality, organ system, and study comments.