We have several new online first articles for everyone interested in medical imaging informatics and the technologies used or created for it.  Be sure to visit Springerlink for new content, it is updated almost daily.

From time to time, I’ll write about a new article that catches my eye.  Today’s is from Steve Langer, a pioneer and leader in our field, who writes about “DCMTB: A Virtual Appliance DICOM Toolbox”.   His group uses many of the free and/or open source tools developed recently for toolkits to help in imaging informatics such as DCM4CHEE, MIRTH, XNAT, PostGres SQL, programming environments and a group of Diagnostic Medical Physics tools.  The problem was that multiple team members could not use the same instance of a toolkit for fear of overwriting another’s work and the installation of these toolkits is not a trivial task.  Their solution is using virtual machines to build a configurable setting that gives each team member the “ownership” of a set of tools as needed and supports their multi-project environment.  This is interesting reading, don’t miss it.