[Intl_DxMedPhys] Rads reading with virtual desktop

[Lee Kiessel]

We have one radiologist who transitioned his home reading station from using a local PACS viewer to reading images through a virtual desktop (images are loaded on a virtual machine, and the display is streamed, uncompressed, to his home workstation).  This is supposedly to help with network bandwidth issues with slow image loading.

I've verified that the images are translating to the proper display luminance by loading test patterns in PACS on the virtual machine and viewing them on the home displays.  Similarly high contrast bar patterns display properly as well.

Our system is considering rolling this out to more radiologists, so I'd like to check to make sure I'm not missing anything that could compromise image quality.  Has anyone had experience with radiologists using a similar virtual desktop setup to view images?  Are there any pitfalls that I may be overlooking?

Thanks in advance!

Lee M Kiessel, PhD, DABR | Chief Diagnostic Physicist
Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center
1325 S Cliff Ave | Sioux Falls, SD 57105
Direct: 605-322-6279 | Cell: 605-838-8089

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