[THIN] Re: Viewing XRay Images via Citrix

  • From: Callaway <callaway4all@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:21:46 -0700 (PDT)

You seem quite adept in this area.  Have you been down
this road before???


--- Alexander Danilychev <teknica@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> X-ray images are usually in a TIFF format with no or
> very little image 
> quality loss. Uncompressed TIFFs are about 10MB in
> size for reasonable 
> reproduction of an 8x11 print and, as you know, some
> X-ray pictures are 
> about 3 times that size.
> 
> Lossless compression (like JPEG) can shrink these
> images to about 750K size; 
> however it is possible to acquire artifacts, which
> is not acceptable for 
> medical imaging.
> 
> The best test is a benchmark - see what compression
> does Citrix provide (not 
> as good as static JPEG, since they are probably
> using RLE) and whether 
> doctors can handle possible liability, since their
> X-ray diagnoses can be 
> hindered by artifacts of compression!
> 
> Although original program is acceptable by doctors,
> since Citrix image 
> compression is not something you can control, your
> implementation might not.
> 
> ALEX
> 
> PS
> Obviously at high magnification and partial image
> display you can get a good 
> quality at reasonable bandwidth consumption.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Callaway <callaway4all@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: "thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: [THIN] Viewing XRay Images via Citrix
> >Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:41:59 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >There is a software package entitled JPACS that is
> >used to allow physicians to view x-ray images, and
> I
> >have installed on a Metaframe 1.8 server FR1
> running
> >NT 4.  Are there any "tweaks" I could employ to
> help
> >speed up the presentation of these images or is
> doing
> >something like this just a bad idea over Citrix
> (like
> >animation) is?
> >
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