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MetronDVM
Here is what's new since 4.0!
Current Metron users, this summary will help you understand 5.0 features.
- For CR or DR users we have “unified the database” so that as soon as you acquire an image, it is in the Metron database. That is, there is no longer the distinction of the “DR sub-system” or the “CR sub-system”. You do not have to “enter the image into Metron” as a second step.
- We have simplified our patented Hoof Analysis guided markup. For several of the image types, there are less picks required, and also there are less parameters computed, but they are the important parameters. This helps us take a step towards guided mark-up being faster and easier and less confusing for users. The “classic” Hoof analysis is available by selection under Preferences.
- Reports have been unified, and made more powerful. Previously there were two kinds of reports: “Hoof Reports” and “Generic Reports”. These have been unified to prevent confusion. All report details entered now persist from session to session. We have added a new type of page called a “Form Page” in which it is possible to use any of many pre-defined “Forms” or to lay out your own. A “Form” is a page with several images, positioned however you like.
- Reports are now stored in the same database alongside all the images and video clips for the animal on a particular date. This removes confusion about where to find your report.
- Any operation that makes sense to do for a set of images can now be done by high-lighting two or more image thumbnails and selecting the operation. For example:
- View 2 to 6 images side by side
- Delete a group of images
- Export a group of images
- Print a group of images – print from 1 to 8 images per page.
- Send a group of images by e-mail
- Send a group of images by DICOM
- Burn a group of images to a CD or DVD
- Cut or Copy a group of images (to Paste into a different location)
- All operations the display or export images (multi-view, print, export, e-mail, etc) allow you to choose to show the annotation and/or any mark-up or not.
- Send and Receive DICOM are now set up so that all Metron data is encapsulated within the DICOM image sent. This allows Metron users to send images and data to each other across the internet anywhere in the world.
- When images arrive by DICOM or e-mail, a button in the Metron interface blinks red to let you know images have arrived. With one click you accept them into your copy of Metron.
- Metron 5.0 extends the concept of Guided Mark-Up to companion animal radiographs. We support the Vertebral Heart Score (VHS) for cats and dogs, and the TPLO for dogs.
- Metron 5.0 adds a Dental capability including teeth charts for dogs, cats, and horses. “Forms” have been added so that images can be arranged, several to form, arranged as a full mouth study, or in other ways.
- Metron 5.0 supports USB video cameras, for example, the Acclaim inter-oral camera from AllPro.
- Metron 5.0 supports the Dental Duo CR scanner for dental sized plates from AllPro.
- Metron 5.0 introduces the concept of “Collections” of images. The user can add any images in the system into a collection, and then perform any of the multi-image operations on the collection. For example, one can put images from different dates into a collection, then use the multi-view function to view them side by side.
- Metron 5.0 includes a Search function, for example, to search for all radiographs of Hocks throughout the system, and adds them all to a collection. Collections can be saved for later use in presentations.
- Any time an image is deleted, it goes into the Trash Can. Hence, images can be “un-deleted” if need be. The user empties the trash can from time to time.
- For CR and DR images acquired from Metron, the annotations are no longer “burned in” to the image. This is better in case of later transmission by DICOM to other systems, and it also means that rotation and other operations in Metron are faster, because the image need not be recomposed. The image is rotated, and the annotation is overlaid on top. Hence, many imaging operations are faster.
- In Metron 5.0, even after the image has been marked-up, one can still use the full power of the filtering tools. The overlays are not affected by the image processing, the image is filtered “under them” and the overlays are re-drawn on top.
- In Guided Mark-Up the picked points can be “dragged” with the mouse to improve their placement. Previously, one had to “undo pick” and then pick again.
- A report can be e-mailed just as like an image. If the e-mail is going to a Metron recipient, they will get the entire report and it will appear in their database just as it is in the senders, and they can edit it. If a report is e-mailed to a non-Metron user, then it is automatically converted to a PDF file and attached to an e-mail.
- The new Forms, introduced for the purpose of dental charts, can be used generally in Metron for other uses. Forms can be defined so that they “auto-populate” so that as images are added to Metron, they also go directly into one or more forms that can accept them. In this way, for example, as a study of a horse’s foot is shot, the images could automatically go into a form layout.
- CD burning has been unified in Metron 5.0. Formerly there were two different locations to burn CDs from. Now they are both together, and the user can choose to burn an “image only” CD, or to burn a CD containing the Metron Viewer.
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