Type:
Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Epidemiology, Computer Applications-Teleradiology, Computer Applications-General, Teleradiology, PACS, Education and training
Authors:
A. Székely1, R. Talanow2, P. Bágyi1; 1Debrecen/HU, 2Lexington, KY/US
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2012/C-1825
Background
Smartphones are phone devices that may also be used for browsing,
navigation and running smaller computer programs called applications.
One may consider them as compact personal computers which are primarily to be used for making phone calls. Tablets or „tablet PCs” are fully functioning standalone computers the size of a thin LCD monitor,
which use the screen itself for control and data input.
Both of these devices may be categorized based on the operating system that they use such as iOS,
Android,
Blackberry OS,
Windows Phone.
iOS,
which is a product of Apple,
is run by the iPhone (smartphone),
iPod Touch (media player and mini computer - Fig.1.) and the iPad (tablet) exclusively.
Android,
a brainchild of Google,
is a Linux-based,
open source operating system that is run by a growing number of mobile phones,
netbooks and tablets available from several different vendors.
Blackberry OS and Windows Phone are run by devices of RIM and Nokia respectively.
Smartphones and tablet personal computers are gaining wide acceptance among medical professionals,
and there has been a rapid growth in the number of medical mobile applications.
These software are meant to ease the everyday lives of medical students and professionals as well. To our knowledge no previous study has explored how mobile technology can be used by diagnostic imaging personnel.