Techs need advanced postprocessing skills

Dimag.com
Heather Brown, Ph.D.

Postprocessing software vendors sell their software based on the "push of a button" fantasy: Simply by pressing several buttons, the user completes the entire case. Although software interfaces are becoming increasingly more user-friendly, postprocessing volumetric data still requires an advanced skill set. This need is indicated by the number of physicians seeking specialized training courses to process cardiac cases. Unfortunately, while doctors are receiving advanced education, technologists are being left by the wayside, with only limited vendor-specific applications training.

Although many physicians are learning how to use postprocessing software, it is increasingly apparent that this task will become the responsibility of technologists. More and more postprocessing labs are popping up around the country where dedicated technologists prepare postprocessed data sets for a physician's review. The technologists who work in these labs are typically those who have taken the initiative to learn the software through applications training and/or trial and error.

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