PACS allows radiological and non-radiological image distribution to the hospitals, clinics, imaging centers, specialists and integration with other information systems.

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a global information standard designed to ensure the interoperability of systems used to produce, store, display, process, send, retrieve, query and print medical images. Physicians have better access to images and reports when DICOM standards are in place. DICOM was created by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) to aid the distribution and viewing of medical images, such as CT scans, MRIs, and ultrasound. DICOM is the most common standard for receiving scans from a hospital.

SAVIM is fully compatible with DICOM standard and also allows the integration to the standard of non-DICOM compatible modalities with analogue video output like endoscopy, microscopy, fluoroscopy, etc.

SAVIM is compatible with several medical modalities like: Magnetic Resonance, Ultrasound, Computed Tomography (CT), Digital Radiography, X Rays Angiography, Magnetic Resonance Angiography, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Nuclear Medicine, X Rays mammography, X Rays fluoroscopy, Positron Emission Tomography (PET), among others. SAVIM is also compatible with the main manufacturers of image modalities and PACS: General Electric, Philips, Siemens, Agfa, Picker, Toshiba, Hitachi, among others.

SAVIM creates a hospital-wide storage indexed by SQL Server databases with lossy or lossless compressions for the best disk use and also local storages at workstations for physicians’ personal archives.

The system can retrieve and visualize images in grey tones, color palette and true color with 8, 12, 16 and 24 bits per pixel color deeps. There are several pseudo-color palettes incorporated for the visualization of functional images like nuclear medicine. The bright and contrast of images is pointer led using window level and width with single or double windows, the latter very useful to display CT images. The user can measure distance, perimeter, angle, area and volume with a calibration of pixel size, in case this information is not available, by using a catheter reference or a well-known measurement. SAVIM has a basic set of image processing tools for annotation, measurements, geometric transformations, bright and contrast enhancements, zooming, negative, etc., the user can also localize the position of a slice in a transverse image for understanding better the image location.

SAVIM allows the creation of multi-planar reconstructions (MPR), import of DICOM compatible CDs generated in modalities or other PACS as well as export of this type of media for distribution to the patient or archival, export of images in DICOM format and BMP, JPG and AVI formats useful for scientific presentations, print of images on film by using high quality DICOM compatible laser printers, create and print reports on paper with the result of the diagnosis and images of interest.

For modalities where the DICOM standard is not available but an analogue video output is available, SAVIM can digitalize images from this video source and generates DICOM compatible images. The patient and procedure information can be retrieve from a DICOM Work list Server.

SAVIM takes advantage of the windows multi-monitor capabilities and can visualize images in several monitors attached to a computer simultaneously.

SAVIM has the necessary elements to create a hospital PACS with the functionalities needed for a proper film less operation: study planning, storage, query/retrieve, visualization, image processing, film printing, report and archival