What's new in Portable RadiAnt DICOM Viewer 4.6.8
Oct 16, 2018
- Added support for large volumes (>2GB) in 3D VR and MPR (64-bit version).
- Improved support for breast tomosynthesis images (DBT).
- Improved support for files that are not fully compliant with the DICOM standard.
New in Portable RadiAnt DICOM Viewer 1.9.16.7446 (May 26, 2014)
- Improvements and bug fixes:
- Improved support for SPECT-CT studies (synchronization, MPR, fusion).
- Improved automatic synchronization of series with small difference in patient orientation (e.g. MR).
- Added support for a rare type of dicom files with little endian implicit transfer syntax.
- Fixed occasional crash of the viewer.
- Other minor improvements.
New in Portable RadiAnt DICOM Viewer 1.9.14.7431 (Jan 15, 2014)
- Fixed display of rare type of images with big endian transfer syntax.
New in Portable RadiAnt DICOM Viewer 1.9.12.7424 (Jan 10, 2014)
- Fixed display of certain types of images with PALETTE COLOR photometric interpretation.
- Other minor improvements.
New in Portable RadiAnt DICOM Viewer 1.9.10.7393 RC (Oct 28, 2013)
- New features:
- Support for length measurement using estimated radiographic magnification factor (e.g. in mammography images).
- Improvements and bug fixes:
- Enhanced PET SUV measurements (e.g. Philips scanners support).
- Fixed display of certain types of images with VOI LUT.
- Other minor improvements.
New in Portable RadiAnt DICOM Viewer 1.9.4.7257 (Oct 18, 2013)
- New features:
- Customizable annotations.
- Support for manual length calibration.
- US calibrated regions support (length or other parameters such as time, velocity, depending on the region).
- Improvements and bug fixes:
- Changes to the CD/DVD autorun package version:
- Changed structure of folders and filenames (for compliance with ISO 9660 Class 1 8+3 filename system)
- CD/DVD scanning can be narrowed down to specified folder(s) (-d command-line parameter)
- The "run.bat" file starts launcher.exe tool, which runs either 32-bit or 64-bit version of RadiAnt DICOM Viewer (previously always 32-bit version was opened)
- Imager pixel spacing is used for measurements when available (which is often the case for XA images).
- Faster opening of large image series from cd/dvd media (in systems low on memory)
- Fixed handling of certain JPEG2000 DICOM files.
- Fixed visual artifacts in ROI elements in exported images.
- Improvements in DICOM tags preview window (fixed incidental crashes, enhanced tag descriptions, corrected display of tags with multiple numerical values).
- Other minor improvements.
New in Portable RadiAnt DICOM Viewer 1.8.6.6744 (May 30, 2013)
- New features:
- Multi-touch support for Windows 8 touch-enabled devices:
- Use one finger to browse images of the series (or perform other function selected from the toolbar).
- Use two fingers to pan and zoom (pinch) images.
- Use three fingers to change window settings (brightness/contrast).
- Time-Intensity Curve generation (CTRL + SHIFT + E).
- Export files in DICOM format.
- Zoom & pan synchronization.
- Window settings (WW/WL) synchronization.
- New controls for Cine mode, overlayed at the bottom of the screen when mouse hovers over image.
- Cine auto start for US and XA series.
- Edit ROIs:
- Copy selected ROI (CTRL + C)
- Copy all ROIs in displayed image (CTRL + SHIFT + C)
- Paste ROI(s) in the same or in different image (CTRL + V)
- Duplicate ROI in corresponding series (CTRL + SHIFT + D)
- Duplicate ROI in all images of the series (SHIFT + ALT + D)
- Delete ROIs in all visible images (SHIFT + DEL)
- Open quickly multiple series (F4).
- Change color scale in fusion images (click color bar).
- Change fused image opacity (left mouse button down and drag over color bar).
- Maximize/restore panel (button/double click on image/CTRL + M), you can switch between opened series in maximized panel using TAB.
- Anonimize all visible patient data (SHIFT + F12).
- Tools can be assigned to the middle mouse button (with WL/WW adjustment default).
- Open DICOM folder in RadiAnt using right-click context menu on a folder in windows explorer.
- Command line parameter -b shows expanded folder tree, lets user choose a subfolder to be scanned for DICOM files.
- New command-line parameter "-cl" closes all running instances of RadiAnt DICOM Viewer.
- Improvements and bug fixes:
- Significant reduction of CD/DVD loading times (up to 3x faster).
- Improved multiframe DICOM file reading from CD/DVD.
- Detection of CD/DVD/Flash removal.
- Toggle series preview bar visibility (CTRL+SHIFT+F4).
- Toggle toolbar and status bar visibility (CTRL+SHIFT+F3).
- Toggle ROI visibility (ALT+F12).
- Change ROI label font size (CTRL+SHIFT+PLUS/MINUS).
- Hold SHIFT during ellipse drawing to make it a circle, hold it while drawing a segment to make it horizontal or vertical.
- Hold CTRL during ellipse drawing to show actual DICOM pixels area (only when image is magnified).
- Ellipse ROI label shows actual DICOM pixels number used for calculations.
- Close all panels (SHIFT + F4).
- Click panel close button with CTRL pressed to clear the panel instead of closing it.
- Options.xml file (ProgramData/RadiAntViewer folder in Windows7) - change default options (currently only by manual editing).
- Zoom-to-region mode for zooming tool (available in options.xml).
- Off-center zooming (retains desired image region visibility during zooming - available in options.xml).
- Scroll wrapping can be disabled in options.xml file.
- Added WW/WL presets for modalities other than CT.
- Status bar shows remaining files during folder scan.
- Displayed info about lossy compression of DICOM images (left top corner, below series number).
- CTRL + C copies value to clipboard in DICOM tags window.
- Improved support for images with VOI LUT defined.
- Fixed a rare crash caused by images with "RAW" modality.
- Fixed display of certain US images (e.g. Philips US systems, GE Vivid 7).
- Fixed default cine rate setting (FPS).
- Fixed problem with opening zip files that have non-standard characters in a filename.
- Compatibility with Windows Server 2008 system was improved by removing the dependency on wmvcore.dll library.
- Other minor features and bug fixes.
New in Portable RadiAnt DICOM Viewer 1.1.8.4646 (Sep 10, 2012)
- Better support for the new enhanced multi-frame DICOM CT and MR files -
- measurements, default window parameters, auto synchronization, cross reference lines,
- MPR and image fusion.
- SD (standard deviation) calculation in ellipse ROI.
- Fixed issue with ellipse ROI calculations in fusion MPR (coronal and sagittal)
- images.
- Faster DICOM load and export times.
- Better memory management.
New in Portable RadiAnt DICOM Viewer 1.0.4.4439 (May 16, 2012)
- New features:
- Multiplanar reconstructions.
- PET-CT fusion (other types of images can be also fused, e.g. DWI and conventional MRI sequences).
- Screen splitting with a predefined column/row number (drag and drop series thumbnail images into viewports).
- DICOM tags inspection window.
- Angle measurement.
- Cobb angle measurement.
- Improvements and bug fixes:
- The autorun package for CD/DVD contains both 32 and 64 bit versions.
- More keyboard shortcuts (series navigation - Home/End, tool selection -
- C/B/M/W/Z).
- Middle mouse button adjusts window level/width.
- Auto synchronization on/off switch.
- Display cross-reference lines on/off switch.
- Ellipse tool shows minimum and maximum values in covered area.
- ROIs drawn with an outline for better visibility on brighter backgrounds.
- Movable ROI text labels.
- More zoom presets added - 200, 400 and 800%.
- The installer supports silent setup mode.
- Crash reporting tool.
- Improved look of certain dialog windows when using non-standard DPI settings.
- Support for PALETTE COLOR DICOM images.
- Improved support for JPEG DICOM images.
- Other minor features and many bug fixes.