From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 23 4:25:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9751937B401 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 04:25:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grillolja.cs.umu.se (grillolja.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE1B943E65 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 04:25:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavisd-new (Postfix) with ESMTP id D218CA012; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:25:36 +0200 (MEST) Received: from kvist.cs.umu.se (kvist.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.192]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by grillolja.cs.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112DFA011; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:25:34 +0200 (MEST) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:25:30 +0200 (MEST) From: Paul Everlund To: Andy_Pike@integra-neuro.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, , Subject: Re: Using free BSD in medical equipment In-Reply-To: <80256C3A.00518798.00@ntserver3.integra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new amavisd-new-20020630 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 Andy_Pike@integra-neuro.com wrote: > > I work for a medical company situated in Andover England. We are currently > looking at various software packages that we could use as a platform for a > graphical user interface on a piece of medical equipment that is in an > early design stage. I have considered various Microsoft and UNIX based > packages and consequently found FreeBSD suitable for our requirements. > However I have one obstacle in my way, in order to convince my colleges I > need to find documented evidence of some commercial ventures (not internet > hosting or similar activity), typical examples: customer information > service, domestic satellite receiving equipment, pocket PC etc. > > Regards > > Andy Pike > > Development Engineer > > Integra NeuroSciences > Newbury Road > Andover > Hants > SP10 4DR > Tel 01264 345717 > > andy_pike@integra-neuro.com Hi! At Lund University Hospital we're currently using a FreeBSD system that is a middlestation between a Toshiba nuclear modality and our PACS archive. It's purpose so far is to convert between various image formats to DICOM, using a slightly modified application from Eric Nolf (XMedcon). A Modality Worklist Query is asked to Mitra's BROKER, for insertion of data in the DICOM object using a modified package of CTN from Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. After the DICOM object has been created it is send to our PACS archive. Everything works really good, and no one could be happier than me, as it was due to my suggestion we did chose FreeBSD. As I also be- came fully responsible for the project, it was a comfort using this great OS. This FreeBSD server will eventually be a gateway between other im- age systems as well, and I have no worries that it will not be able to handle this too! To summarize it all... The OS fully serves our purpose. If it will serve your is another story though. Good luck! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message