DigitalMedics is a german start-up company that
aims to develop medical image processing software
that exclusively runs under the Linux operating
system. The first product called REALTIQ which stands for “Re-aligning Tissue Quantification” is scheduled to be
released in September 2000, more information
at the companies website. The software is currently in the alpha-stage.
“The user can specify,
intuitively by using the mouse, an axis through this data, as well as a bounding-box around that axis.”
Further, the company has a nice little ditty on why Linux? as opposed to a well-known other operating system.
According to the company their REALTIQ Software Features:
- Re-align any patient-scan to new arbitrary axes by tri-linear interpolation
- Segmentation of long-bone tissue
- Quantification of long-bone tissue
- DICOM compatible
Requirements:
- Linux operating system
- 64MB RAM or more
- About 4MB of disk-space