IHE Radiology Technical Framework Supplement 2006-2007 – Image Fusion (FUS) Integration Profile

Creating and viewing images that have been co-registered is becoming an increasingly important process in the clinical domains and radiology in particular. Currently, registration and image fusion can be performed on individual workstations designed for that purpose, but the results are not readily transferable to other systems, often due to proprietary or inconsistent implementations. Further, for the results presented on different systems to appear the same, those systems must consistently and correctly handle issues such as identifying and retrieving the right datasets for the fusion display, matching data between single-slice and multislice datasets, performing spatial translations and rendering the fused display. This supplementary resource addresses the ability to convey registered data from one system to another for further processing, storage and display and to present repeatable fused displays consisting of a grayscale underlying image and a pseudocolour overlay image.

Main sections:

· Integration profiles

· Transactions