In March 2004, what a “divine surprise”: OsiriX first beta is out just before ECR ! Before, there were very few solutions to view DICOM images on a Mac, once OsiriX had arisen a true and useful DICOM workstation on Mac OS X was now available. Year after year OsiriX became more and more powerful.
With OsiriX I could do lot of tasks not available on our old workstations at that time: rapidly and conveniently reformat, 3D, virtual endoscopy. Now we have post-processing servers and PACS but I continue to work on OsiriX for some post-processing tasks such as MPR, 3D, Metadata analysis…
In my department, when radiologists are on duty, they receive examinations performed during night on their home computer. Half of us have a Mac and I installed OsiriX on those Macs in 2006. Since, I can work at home with the same quality of work than inside my department for diagnosis. At last, in France, examinations are given to patients with few relevant printed images and a CD/DVD with all images of the examination. Robots burn CD/DVDs with a PC viewer but nothing for Mac. Before OsiriX all referent physicians working on Mac were disappointed to be unable to view his or her patient’s examination. Since OsiriX creation I showed them how to download and install it on their Mac and they love it. Now in my department OsiriX is burned on the CD/DVDs.