DICOM import modules

RDSR module

Ultimately this should be the only module required as it deals with all Radiation Dose Structured Reports. Currently this has only been tested on CT and fluoroscopy structured reports, but it also has the logic for mammography structured reports if they start to appear.

Mammography module

Mammography is interesting in that all the information required for dose audit is contained in the image header, including patient ‘size’, ie thickness. However the disadvantage over an RSDR is the requirement to process each individual image rather than a single report for the study, which would also capture any rejected images.

CR and DR module

In practice this is only useful for DR modalities, but most of them use the CR IOD instead of the DX one, so both are catered for. This module makes use of the image headers much like the mammography module.

CT non-standard modules

Initially only Philips CT dose report images are catered for. These have all the information that could be derived from the images also held in the DICOM header information, making harvesting relatively easy.