As medical institutions conquer the challenges of implementing PACS for enterprise-wide softcopy viewing., attention has increasingly turned to quality assurance of display performance., calibration and finding ways to easily attain visual consistency across numerous workstations with multiple flat panel monitors.

While most people are aware of the DICOM standard, few know exactly what it means to be DICOM calibrated and how display systems employ automatic calibration methods to assure conformance with the standardized display function specified in the DICOM documentation.

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