AN INEXPENSIVE COMPUTER-BASED DIGITAL IMAGING TEACHING FILE

Despite a decade and a half of digital imaging in radiology, most radi ology teaching files remain film-based. The reasons include the high c ost or unavailability of digital acquisition and display devices. In t he past few years, a number of excellent exhibits that combine inexpen sive microcomputers with radiologic education have been shown at natio nal meetings [1-6]. Unfortunately, many of these methods require esote ric hardware, expensive or proprietary software, or special programmin g skills. We developed a simple method for creating and disseminating a teaching file of imaging studies obtained with digital techniques.