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How to Author MIRC Teaching File Documents

How to Author MIRC Teaching File Documents. MIRC. M edical I maging R esource C enter. MIRC info RAD Courses. How to Set Up a Personal Teaching File System. Tour of the MIRC Community Inside the RSNA MIRC Software How to Author MIRC Teaching File Documents

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How to Author MIRC Teaching File Documents

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  1. How to Author MIRC Teaching File Documents

  2. MIRC Medical Imaging Resource Center

  3. MIRC infoRAD Courses • How to Set Up a Personal Teaching File System. • Tour of the MIRC Community • Inside the RSNA MIRC Software • How to Author MIRC Teaching File Documents • How to Build a Database-driven MIRC Teaching File System.

  4. Today’s Outline • Quick overview of MIRC • Quick overview of the MIRC query service • Quick illustrated MIRCat tour • Demonstration of how to author MIRC Teaching File documents

  5. MIRC Objective Support the production, storage, indexing and distribution of medical imaging resources: • Teaching files • Scientific & technical documentation • Research images & datasets • Clinical trials data

  6. MIRC Concepts The key concepts: • MIRC is a community of cooperating libraries on the Internet. • The libraries cooperate by supporting a common query mechanism. • The query mechanism allows users to find information wherever it is stored.

  7. MIRC supports all information storage formats. • Images: DICOM, GIF, JPEG, PNG • Hyperlinks to other web content. • Virtually any content that is displayable in a web browser. • Pointers to other files for downloading.

  8. The MIRC Schemas • MIRC document • Format for documents on the RSNA site. • Format for Index Cards on the RSNA site. • MIRC query & MIRC query response • Format for communication between Query Services and Storage Service Indexes.

  9. MIRC Server Components • Query Service An entry point into the MIRC community for a user on the Internet. • Storage Service A cooperating information library. • Index: the library’s card catalog. • Server: the library’s shelves.

  10. MIRC SITES User Query Service MIRC site A Index RSNA site Internet Server Index MIRC site B Index Index Server Server Server MIRC site C

  11. MIRCat • What is MIRCat? • MIRC authoring tool. • Features: • Can construct MIRC compatible teaching, research or reference documents. • Documents can be submitted to a MIRC compatible storage service for retrieval. • MIRCat supports for DICOM Q/R • MIRCat supports for DICOM SCP. • MIRCat supports ACR lexicon and RADLEX (soon!). • Is already feature packed! • A lot more is to come. • Feedback from YOU is essential!

  12. MIRC Authoring Tool • Java (100% pure) • Specific to the MIRC document schema • DICOM, GIF, JPEG, PNG formats • DICOM Q/R SCU + Storage SCP • Personal & departmental directories • Image annotation tool • Personal templates

  13. MIRCat Modalities PACS Author Department Network Cases Cases Cases Cases Cases Cases DICOM SCP MIRC DICOM SCP Dep. MIRC

  14. Where Do I get MIRCat? http://mirc.rsna.org/mircatsoftware

  15. MIRCat Download • Contains a release description of software (currently Beta-3a) • Full documentation on installation and operation of software. • A link to download the software in a ZIP file. • Click the download link, save the ZIP file, and unzip the package on your desktop or anywhere.

  16. Installation • Install Java 2 version 1.4 (or later) • Link to installer from the RSNA MIRC site (http://mirc.rsna.org/mircatsoftware) • run the installer you downloaded

  17. The MIRCat application file. Configuration file reader. GIF image support library. Document Templates. DICOM utility function files. Image Editor. The MIRCat Directory

  18. The MIRCat Directory Can make a shortcut on desktop

  19. Menu Bar Button Bar for Common Menu Functions Tab Bar to Access Program Features The MIRCat Application Workspace

  20. How to Set Up Your MIRCat • Configuration Settings

  21. MIRCat Preferences • DICOM Storage • DICOM Q/R • Shared Image Directory • Browser location • Preferred export site to post MIRC documents. • Location of MIRC root dir. • Which template to use as default.

  22. MIRCat Tab Tour

  23. MIRCat Tab Tour

  24. MIRCat Tab Tour

  25. MIRCat Tab Tour

  26. MIRCat Tab Tour

  27. MIRCat Tab Tour

  28. MIRCat Tab Tour

  29. MIRCat Tab Tour

  30. MIRCat Tab Tour Megasave

  31. MIRCat Tab Tour

  32. MIRCat Tab Tour

  33. MIRCat Tab Tour

  34. Palette and Image Insertion • Image palette supports annotation overlays on your images. • Using the Megasave option will save five versions of your image: • Original DICOM image • JPEG version w/ original size and resolution • JPEG version • JPEG version with annotation • An thumbnail version of the image.

  35. Viewing Document in a Browser • Once you save the case, you can open it in your default browser. • This will provide you with the exact “look” of the content before you upload to the MIRC server. • If you need to make changes, do so and resave the document. • Remember, you can re-open old submissions locally, make changes and resubmit the case

  36. Types of MIRC Documents • Five default templates come with MIRCat to help you build content: • Basic article • Basic case • Basic index card • Teaching File Case • MIRC Standard Teaching File Case • Three Standard MIRC display formats. • page • tab • mirctf

  37. Page Display

  38. Tabbed Display

  39. MIRC Teaching File Display

  40. Guidelines • The document types can be modified, that is, elements can be added or subtracted. • The document types provide basic structure to your content. • Decide which document type to use depending on the content type. • Pick the suitable display format for your content.

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