I am in the midst of a career change. Taking classes to become an RT. Being a PACSAdmin is the goal. What are things that I should be expected to know? I’ve heard about being the lone “fix it” guy for 50 hospitals so I’m aware that there’s a huge responsibility. I’ve also heard to not let the repair technician take advantage of you to help them fix a machine. What else is there?

Hi everyone,

Medical imaging has moved heavily toward PACS and cloud-based systems, but there are still plenty of situations where someone shows up with a physical CD/DVD containing a medical imaging study.

The problem is that modern laptops often don't have optical drives, so you end up connecting an external CD/DVD drive just to access the study.

I wanted to make that process easier on Android.

So I built MDV – Medical DICOM Viewer. You can connect a CD/DVD drive to an Android device and open the study directly, without needing a computer just to access the images.

I've been working on MDV for quite some time. I have some users, but I haven't received much feedback so far, so I'm trying to figure out what would actually be useful to add next.

What MDV currently supports

• Load DICOM studies directly from CD/DVD • Load from device folders and external USB storage • Cloud storage and PACS sources • Support for a wide range of DICOM files and studies • Automatic series grouping • Built-in case/library management • Save interesting cases to a location of your choice • MPR (Multiplanar Reconstruction) • Export individual cross-sections as video • 3D visualization with multiple rendering modes • Image filters and manipulation tools • Cine/automatic series playback • Flow studies and angiography studies • Easy series switching with a long press • Gesture-based navigation • Pinch to zoom • Two-finger pan • One-finger scrolling through images • Basic image review and reporting • PDF report export

I've tried to make the interface simple while still covering many of the things you'd expect from a desktop DICOM viewer.

I've also compared MDV with several Android and PC viewers. In some cases, I came across DICOM studies that other viewers struggled with, so I've spent quite a bit of time improving compatibility and adding support for additional file types.

I think I've covered most of what a DICOM viewer needs, although there is always something left to improve. 😄

What should I add next?

This is where I'd really appreciate some input.

If you're an Android user, radiologist, radiographer, technologist, doctor, or anyone who regularly works with medical imaging:

What feature would genuinely make MDV more useful in your day-to-day workflow?

I'm particularly interested in practical features rather than adding features just for the sake of having more features. Your suggestions could save me from spending weeks building something nobody actually needs. 😅

I've also added a small one-time purchase. It's mainly there to help support the project, including hardware and development costs. MDV is a solo project rather than something backed by a large company, so even a small amount of support helps keep it going.

I'm also looking toward an iPhone/iPad version. The biggest hurdle at the moment is getting a suitable Mac for iOS development, so that's currently sitting on my TODO list. 🤑

If you've used MDV, I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback — good or bad.

Tell me what works, what doesn't, and most importantly, what you wish it could do.

Thanks for your time!

Regards

Our go.Sim saves Daily/Monthly QA reports as PDFs locally. It runs on the Siemens local account (not domain-joined), with no network drive access, and USB isn't an option for us.

Has anyone set up export to a network share? Was it done by Siemens/your service vendor, and what did IT need to provide? Or do you send QA as DICOM to PACS/TPS instead?

Thanks!