eFilm Workstation™ 3.0 Overview

eFilm Workstation™ 3.0 is the newest release of the widely-used desktop diagnostic imaging software available via download. eFilm Workstation™ incorporates many features required for day-to-day work, window/level presets, synchronized stacking, MPR, reference lines, cine function and integrated CD burning, as well as advanced capabilities like volume rendering.

eFilm is an application used for viewing and manipulating medical images. Digital images and data from various sources (including CT, MR, US units, computed and digital radiographic devices, secondary capture devices, scanners, imaging gateways, or imaging sources) can be displayed, analyzed, processed, stored and sent across computer networks using this software.

eFilm Workstation™ continues to utilize customer feedback and the leading imaging trends to bring you high level workflow, visualization, processing and CD burning capabilities in an intuitive, economical manner.

Common uses

Primary reading station.

Advanced reading.

CD burning utility.

Technologist viewing station.

Backup viewer for existing.

PACS (disaster recovery).

Gold vs Platinum feature/function		3.0 Gold	3.0 Platinum
Database		SQL Express (4GB)	SQL Express (4GB)
Hanging Protocols (HP)		-	Yes
HP Builder w/relevant priors		-	Yes
Key Images		-	Yes
Edit/Delete Support for Key Images		-	Yes
Cardiac Thoracic Ratio (CTR)		-	Yes
CD/DVD Burning		Yes	Yes
Include additional non-DICOM files on CD/DVD		Yes	Yes
Customized Handling of Markers on Mammo Overlay*		Yes	Yes
Modify position and font size of annotations		Yes	Yes
Font Management on Display and Print		Yes	Yes
Configurable handling of Multi-frame images		Yes	Yes
Floating or docked thumbnail panel		Yes	Yes
MS Windows Copy and Paste		Yes	Yes
* eFilm Workstation is NOT FDA approved for Mammo Reading and Diagnosis.

eFilm Workstation™ features

The following is a list of highlighted features of eFilm Workstation for both Gold and Platinum versions:

Thumbnail viewer

Simplifies the task of choosing images and where they are displayed.

Can be toggled on/off or set to come up with every study through the Study Manager window.

Provides easy access to thumbnails of related studies, as well as current study.

User login/authentication

Identifying the user to the system allows eFilm to retrieve user specific profile information as well as provides a mechanism to meet HIPAA requirements regarding information access.

PET/CT image fusion

Fused PET and CT images from the same study can be viewed, permitting visualization of functional PET data combined with anatomical CT data.

Pixel-for-pixel zoom

Provides the option to display the image at full resolution with no interpolation.

True-sized printing

User can specify a scale factor that will result in true-sized DICOM printing, needed for orthopedic templating when using acetate templates.

MPR

MPR reconstruct a cross-sectional image in any plane from CT or MR data.

View real-time reconstruction in any orthogonal or oblique plane of the data with exquisite image quality.

Use MPR plane to generate slabs of arbitrary thickness via MIP.

Automatically creates a new series.

Stack through the reformatted images as you would any other series; view each slice's relative position on the source image.

User profiles

Create unique user profiles based on user name

Save multiple user profiles on a given workstation to allow users to easily launch their preferred toolbar configurations, window and level presets, layout presets and more

3D volume rendering

Preview slices and select particular images for inclusion (or exclusion) from volume reconstruction.

Adjust interpolation levels to suit processor speeds.

Color mapping opacity setting options.

View structures or organs as a whole (as opposed to slices).

Important: eFilm Workstation™ has been designed to support optimal clinical visualization. To realize optimal clinical visualization, the user must deploy a color monitor and a video card that fully supports Microsoft DirectX 8.1 or greater. In the absence of the DirectX 8.1 video card, volume rendering functionality and performance will be lower than optimal.

DICOM printing

Print to a large variety of printers.

Send a manufacturer-specific string to the printer, via the DICOM print configuration, for specifying a particular 'look up table' at the printer.

Customizable toolbars

Display only the tools needed when viewing various types of studies such as CR or MR.

Access needed tools quickly for increased efficiency.

Change the size of the icons on screen.

Invoke auto-hide feature to hide tools when not actively using them, maximizing use of diagnostic screen space.

Set up keystroke combinations to perform toolbar functions.

Integrated CD creation

Burn CD’s directly from the eFilm Workstation™ application.

Burn a ‘lite’ version CD of eFilm Workstation™ to use as a portable viewer using the integrated DICOMDIR support feature.

Compliant with IHE Portable Data Interchange (PDI).

NEW! Burn non DICOM Files to CD and DVD's.

Intuitive GUI

Customize toolbars per modality.

Save user settings in a user profile.

Work more accurately with dynamic distance display, mouse-over recognition and an alternating color scheme that make measurement lines much easier to read.

Mouse support

Accelerate productivity with a mouse configuration that allows users to use a variety of mouse hardware.

Assign right and left mouse click functions to different mouse or trackball buttons.

'Lock' a mouse or trackball button for common operations such as stacking and windowing; once the button is locked, the operation can be performed without the need to hold down a button.

Reasons to buy

Reasons to buy eFilm Workstation™ include:

Free 30-day trial of full version of the software. You can download a trial of eFilm Workstation™ to as many machines as you wish in order to test connectivity and workflow.

Simple online download, purchase and licensing engine.

The world's most widely used diagnostic imaging viewer.

A Class II FDA medical device.

Flexible pricing for annual licenses, unlimited time licenses. Academic pricing also available.

Continuous development to meet the needs of our large user base.

Intuitive CD burning application that will burn a lite version of eFilm on the CD so anyone with a PC can view your studies.

Unmatched online support resources in the user forum, knowledgebase, downloadable user guides and 9-5 weekday phone support (with a valid license key and support contract).

Recommended system requirements

MS Vista users

eFilm Workstation™ 3.0 is currently undergoing testing for operation within the MS Vista operating system environment, and will be validated for use in Vista systems soon.

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows 2000 Professional (SP4 or higher)

Windows XP Professional (SP2)

Required minimum hardware

eFilm must be run on a computer that meets the following, minimum hardware requirements:

Pentium II processor.

512 MB RAM.

40 GB free hard drive space (1 GB for installing eFilm and 39 GB for image storage).

8-bit video card (best performance is 24- or 32-bit).

Minimum display resolution 1024 x 768 with 16 bit/high color.

When choosing computer hardware, users should note that the most substantial performance gains result when RAM is increased. In order to prevent poor performance of the software, Merge Healthcare does not recommend that eFilm be run on a less powerful system than that listed above. Hard drive space should be added as image storage requirements increase.

Required hardware

To get the most out of eFilm, Merge Healthcare recommends that your computer meet the following specifications:

Pentium 4-class processor.

2 GB RAM.

40 GB free hard drive space (1 GB for installing eFilm and 39 GB for image storage)

Display resolution 1280 x 1024 with 32 bit/true color

For 3D volume rendering

Video card with at least 128 MB video.

RAM that fully supports DirectX 8.1 or higher.