medical images into PPT

[MarthaH]

Does anyone know of a way to import medical images -
dicom3 - into PowerPoint other than the screen grab or a
copy/paste from a PACs or other server? We'd like to be
able just to insert>from file>... the dicom images.

these are strictly medical images, with patient data, type
of machine, study data included in the file itself.

thanks

 

[Bill]

What I recommend is the screen grab (ALT-PRINTSCREEN), open Microsoft Photo
Editor (and leave it open for all images), Click the "Edit" menu and select
"Paste as new image". Click the Selection tool if you need to and get just
the part you want. If you do this, press CTRL-C to copy again and reselect
"Edit", "Paste as new image". When you have what you want, click "File",
"Save as" and save it as a jpg. Then use the "Insert", "Picture", "From
file" method to get them on your slides.

This way you will have these files for other presentations if necessary, and
can even link them into your presentations if wanted. If this is too much
effort, after you press ALT-PRINTSCREEN, go to Powerpoint, click "Edit",
"Paste Special", select the JPG option and insert it. This isn't as
efficient and as small a file size as inserting the images mentioned above,
but it is MUCH smaller that a plain copy and paste!

Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com

 

[John O]

Does anyone know of a way to import medical images -

dicom3 - into PowerPoint other than the screen grab or a
copy/paste from a PACs or other server? We'd like to be
able just to insert>from file>... the dicom images.

these are strictly medical images, with patient data, type
of machine, study data included in the file itself.

I've never heard of this type of image, but is there any way to export this
data in some other format? Other than the screen capture route Bill
explains, the only probable way to go anywhere is to get the images in a
format common to some graphics converter such as IrfanView or Photoshop.

Bill...would a PNG image be better for this application than JPG? In my
experience screen caps saved as JPGs look...awful.

-John O

 

[MarthaH]

What you suggest is a variation on what my doctors do.
They usually take the images into Photoshop and then jpg
them. I just wondered if there was a more direct method.
After the 1st 60 or 70 images, this can get very boring.

-----Original Message-----
What I recommend is the screen grab (ALT-PRINTSCREEN), open Microsoft Photo
Editor (and leave it open for all images), Click the "Edit" menu and select
"Paste as new image". Click the Selection tool if you need to and get just
the part you want. If you do this, press CTRL-C to copy again and reselect
"Edit", "Paste as new image". When you have what you want, click "File",
"Save as" and save it as a jpg. Then use the "Insert", "Picture", "From
file" method to get them on your slides.

This way you will have these files for other

presentations if necessary, and

 

[Bill]

I certainly don't know of an automated way. SORRY!

Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com

 

[John O]

I believe Photoshop has some batch tools. How useful they are depends on
your version and workflow.

 

[B]

You may want to check out Howie's Funware site. There is a free screen
capture tool that saves screen captures as bmp's or jpg's using sequential
save numbers.
http://www.howiesfunware.com/

Then, simply batch import the saved pict files into PowerPoint.

******* Warning ********:
I would double and triple check for HIPAA compliance in exporting the
pictures. It may be the reason for having them in a different file format
to begin with.

B

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Have a look at Irfanview ( www.irfanview.com )
It looks like it can read at least some Dicomed formats and will write to
just about any standard format. And it does a nice, easy job of batch
conversions.

Free for personal use.

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[MarthaH]

Thanks,
I shall check out the screen capture tool to see if it's
better than the ones we use. I have been recommending
using Shyam's Image Importer Wizard when it comes time to
put the images into PPT, but it would be nice to have a
way to batch the 'capturing' of the images.

Yes, we are very careful about HIPAA compliance. The
doctors would have to rename the images as they are saved.

 

[Peter Coombs]

Photoshop with the dicomaccess plug-in does this brilliantly. Set up a
macro and it will remove names, adj Bright contrast & compress as
required.

P

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Photoshop with the dicomaccess plug-in does this brilliantly. Set up a
macro and it will remove names, adj Bright contrast & compress as
required.

Thanks, Peter.