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Can radiologists really interpret images from home?

April 26, 2017Home images interpret radiologists

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Can radiologists really interpret images from home?

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Yes. CT, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, and MR images can be transmitted from the imaging site to a computer in the home of the on-call radiologist. Very little information, if any, is lost in this transmission. X-rays are much more difficult to transmit because of the quantity of information necessary (very large gray scale as compared to digital images). This technology is, however, improving rapidly.