SRG Specialist Radiology + MRI Greenlane, Auckland

IntelePACS scheduled outage May 20

George Brownlee — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:52:10 +0000

This outage will affect: Healthcare professionals using our online services.

Please be advised that IntelePACS and all related services, including InteleViewer, will be unavailable between the hours of 02:00 and 08:00 on the 20th of May 2012.

Should you require images during this time, we recommend that you cache studies on your local machine or request studies on CD from our reception.

For any enquiries regarding this matter, please phone our reception desk on (09) 523 7054

InteleViewer in theatre at Ormiston Hospital

George Brownlee — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:30:35 +0000

Surgeons operating in selected theatres at Ormiston Hospital and the Auckland Surgical Centre now have on-demand access to their patients’ studies from the OR computers.

In addition, Doctors working in ADHB hospitals are able to request images be transfered to the ADHB PACS from SRG. Please contact the ADHB PACS department to request studies.

We are hoping to have InteleViewer available in theatres at both of the MercyAscot hospitals, Brightside Hospital, North Shore Hospital, Waitakere Hospital and Middlemore Hospital. Please email us at it@srgmri.co.nz for more information and progress updates.

InteleViewer on Ubuntu

George Brownlee — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:59:01 +0000

Run InteleViewer on Ubuntu Linux with Wine

We offer referring doctors online access to studies and reports with InteleViewer. Whilst InteleViewer is only officially supported on Windows and Mac (10.6+) platforms, it is possible to run InteleViewer under Wine on Ubuntu.

The following tutorial comes with no guarantee and is simply a proof-of-concept. It is in no way endorsed by Intelerad Medical Systems, nor should it be used in a clinical environment.

The following steps were performed on an Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) desktop, running under Virtual Box in Mac OS 10.7. It should theoretically work with later releases of Ubuntu.

Firstly, you will need to install the Wine compatibility layer. To do so, open the Ubuntu Software Center and search for ‘Wine’. Next to the ‘Wine Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer’ package, click ‘Install’

Once the installation of Wine is finished, open up your web browser and download the Windows 32-bit release of InteleViewer from SRG. The file can be found here. Save the file to somewhere accessible, such as your Desktop folder.

After the download has finished, open Terminal and do the following:

cd ~/Desktop/
wine InteleViewer-Setup-Windows-32-bit.exe

Wine will then be configured for first-use, and then load the InteleViewer installer. Continue through the installation as you normally would on a PC or Mac. The installer stalls on the ‘Shutting down dicom service etc’ part, but once it finishes it will continue just fine. I haven’t tried to use the DICOM service under Wine, so I left it uninstalled which is the default.

After the installation has completed, an InteleViewer icon will be on your Ubuntu desktop. Open InteleViewer as you normally would, and enter the settings for our PACS server: https://pacs.srgmri.co.nz

You will now be able to log in using your SRG credentials & access your patients’ images and reports!

Send a study from OsiriX on your Mac to an iOS device

George Brownlee — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:56:03 +0000

With OsiriX on your Mac, you can wirelessly transfer studies to OsiriX HD running on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. The following video tutorial will explain the required steps:

Avulsion Fracture of the Distal Triceps Tendon Insertion

Kate Fitzgerald — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:52:05 +0000

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Patient presented to the radiology department after falling onto their left elbow while walking on rocks. The patient symptoms included an acute onset of pain and loss of power on extension. The ultrasound scan demonstrated an avulsion fracture fragment displaced 4cm proximally from the olecranon process and retraction of the long head of the triceps tendon. There was an extensive partial thickness tear of the medial head of the triceps tendon with intact deep fibres and a large haematoma.

Although a surgical approach is the usual treatment for this injury, the patient opted for a conservative approach. On orthopaedic follow up, the patient had improved strength and movement.

Avulsion of the triceps tendon is the most uncommon of all tendon injuries. A triceps tendon rupture represents only 2% of all tendon ruptures. A rupture may be partial or complete, with or without an olecranon fracture. The most common mechanisms of injury are a fall onto an outstretched hand or a direct impact.

Use your iPad with IntelePACS

George Brownlee — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:08:08 +0000

With InteleBrowser, you can now use your mobile device to access studies directly from SRG. The following steps were performed on iPad, but and HTML-compliant web browser is capable of using the service.

For devices unable to run InteleViewer, such as iPads, or for computers without the application installed, we offer access to our IntelePACS servers with InteleBrowser.

InteleBrowser gives you limited access to studies and reports and is perfect for devices which are unable to run the full InteleViewer application.

Logging on to InteleBrowser

Open your device’s Internet browser (E.g. Safari) and point it to srgmri.co.nz/pacs (This is a shortcut to the full address, which is https://pacs.srgmri.co.nz)

Searching for a patient

When you login, you will be redirected to the search tool by default. If you are taken to another screen, click the ‘Patient Search’ text in the menu.

When searching for a patient, it is easiest to search by either the accession number or the patient’s name. When searching by name, the correct format is Surname, first initial. E.g. bloggs,j

Type the name into the Patient Name field. You can type the first few letters of the patient’s surname and IntelePACS will show you all your patients who have a surname beginning with those letters. In this case, patient ‘Test, T’

To further narrow down the results, you can specify more information in the search filters:

Specify a custom date range to see patients from a particular period, or filter the results based on modality. You could select more than one modality if you needed.

Press the search button to load results.

Opening a patient’s images

Once you have searched for a patient, the results will show in a list below the search form. Tap (or click) on a patient’s name next to their corresponding study to see the series within that study.

The series within the study will be listed below that (Figure A). Tap a series in the list and then double-tap (with a slight pause in between) on the thumbnails button (Figure B).

Once you have pressed the thumbnails button, your images will load as JPEGs