Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for determining a hanging or display protocol to display an image study. Certain embodiments provide a method for determining a protocol for display of an image study. The method includes comparing at least one query image from an image study to a database of reference images to identify at least one resultant image. The method additionally includes extracting one or more characteristics from the at least one resultant image. The method also includes applying a series of filters to a set of display protocols based on the one or more characteristics to determine a subset of the set of display protocols, at least one of the series of filters including an image recognition filter. The method further includes providing a display protocol from the subset of the set of display protocols for display of the image study.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for providing ballast to a portable device with a fillable ballast base such as a basketball stand, an umbrella stand, a road barrier or the like. The base is filled with a super absorbent polymer and water to produce a solid material, such as a gel, so that liquid will not leak out during use like water alone would and does not have the difficult filling issues and the storage issues like sand used for ballast.

Abstract: A method and system for linking position location information between two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) software applications for viewing diagnostic medical images. The position location information is integrated between 2D and 3D viewing paradigms. This integration provides bidirectional communication between the 2D and 3D viewing paradigm systems. The 3D cursor allows for immediate synchronized navigation through different image sets such as 3D magnetic resonance (MR) images and 2D computed tomography (CT) images while they are being simultaneously viewed on the two different viewing applications.

Abstract: A workstation including a memory management scheme is disclosed herein. The memory management scheme permits a large number of files to be open on the workstation. The memory management scheme includes a prioritization scheme such that the least relevant files are unloaded from the workstation memory when space is needed to download newly opened files. The memory management scheme further includes saving settings of files unloaded from the workstation memory so that they can be reloaded when needed, with a user perceiving the unloaded files as being continually open.

Abstract: An image management system (10), such as a PACS system is disclosed. The PACS system includes a PACS server (20) coupled to a communications network (22) and a plurality of PACS workstations (40) also coupled to a communications network (22). Each PACS workstation (40) is configured to receive two dimensional image information and provide incremental volume rendering on the PACS workstation (40) while the two dimensional image information is being received.

Abstract: A pair of copper rails on which a projectile is mounted forms an electrometic rail gun. One end of the rails is connected across an electrical coil which resides between a pair of Helmholtz coils made of a high temperature superconducting material. The Helmholtz coils are normally held in a superconducting state and carry large currents without the need of a voltage source. A thermal quencher is provided which is capable of removing the superconducting state by heating the superconducting circuit. When the temperature of the superconducting circuit rises above its critical temperature, the resistance of the wires will increase, causing the current to collapse. This sharp collapse of the current will cause a correspondingly sharp collapse of the magnetic field of the Helmholtz coils, thereby inducing a sharp current pulse in the force coil which produces a high-energy electric power pulse on the rails to launch the projectile. A magnetic quencher may be used in place of the thermal quencher.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises the combination of a microwave cavity or resonator aving a side opening through which a separate high pressure sample container extends. The container comprises a dielectric nylon or Delrin tube, closed at one end and open at the other, with the closed end located within the cavity, having an outer diameter at least five times its inner diameter and capable of withstanding internal sample pressures of at least 2000 atmospheres. The open end of the dielectric tube is connected to a high pressure source by two high pressure seals.