PortView
What is it?
It is a Microsoft Windows-based image review system for radiation therapy facilities.
Figure 1 shows the typical look of graphical user interface.
It shares the same database with PortalSim and DICOM/DICOM RT server. To improve the efficiency and quality of clinical practice, a comprehensive intercom module is included to provide voice communication, text-and-graph messaging and scheduling and so on.
Figure 1 The typical look of PortView.
Who needs it?
It is developed for a radiation therapy facility that is looking for a fast remote image review
system to release radiation oncologists from laborious on-site image reviewing. The intercom functionality
simplifies the communication between radiation oncologists and treatment delivery staff to merely a
few button clicks.
How it works?
The DICOM/DICOM RT server running on a server computer receives all kinds of DICOM objects including
DICOM image, DICOM RT structure set, DICOM RT plan and DICOM RT image. The dedicate database manages the DICOM data and, administrative and clinical input as well. PortView is such a client application that
interfaces the central database and clinical staff with different clinical duties (Figure 2).
Figure 2 PortView system diagram.
Highlights of PortView
- Fast. It was programmed in C++ from ground up with the latest technology.
- Images are automatically registered.
- Images can be compared in multiple patterns (Figure 3).
Figure 3 Reviewing image with multiple patterns.
- Built-in voice intercom with conference and text chat works better than telephone
(Figure 4).
Figure 4 Voice intercom module.
Figure 5 Internal mailing scheme.
Figure 6 An example of pop-up mail with image.
Work ordering, scheduling and administrative modules streamline the clinical
practice in a more efficient way. Here is one example of calculating work orders
for radiation oncologists, medical dosimetrists and therapists according to assigned clinical duties:
For a radiation oncologist, the work order would show up as long as one of the
following orders is due,
- There are images to review
- There Mails to read
- There are scheduled work to complete
For a medical dosimetrist, the work order would show up as long as one of
the following orders is due,
- There are new patients without DRR images
- There are images without filed ID association
- There are mails to read
- There are scheduled work to complete
For a therapist, the condition for the work order shows up would like this,
- There are rejected portal images to retake
- There are mails to read
- There are scheduled work to complete
How to Contact Us
For the license and technical
support, please contact
Yulong Yan PhD
Tel: (214) 645 7636
Fax: (214) 645 2885
For sales information, please contact
Dawn Bolt, MHSA
Tel: (501) 526 6157
Fax: (501) 686 7285
Email: BoltDawnM@uams.edu