Osirix can also be configured as a PACS server. The current version is 7.0 and was released on December 7, 2015.
#OSIRIX LITE COST MAC OSX#
OsiriX runs on Mac OSX and is released under the version 3 of the GNU Lesser General Public License. The free lite version can be downloaded from the OsiriX website, the source code is available at Github. The price for a single licence is 678 EUR. This version complies with the European Directive 93/42/EEC concerning medical devices. In February 2010, Antoine Rosset and Joris Heuberger created the company Pixmeo to promote and distribute the OsiriX MD version, certified for medical imaging. In March 2009, Antoine Rosset, Joris Heuberger and Osman Ratib created the OsiriX Foundation to promote open-source in medicine. Osman Ratib, Professor of Radiology in UCLA, returned to Geneva at the end of 2005 as the chairman of the Nuclear Medicine service.
#OSIRIX LITE COST MAC OS X#
In June 2005, OsiriX received two prestigious Apple Design Awards : Best Use of Open Source and Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution. Joris Heuberger, a mathematician from Geneva, joined the project in March 2005 on a voluntary fellowship of 6 months in UCLA, Los Angeles. In October 2004, Antoine Rosset went back to the Geneva University Hospital in Switzerland, to continue his career as a radiologist, where he published an OsiriX reference article in June 2004 in the Journal of Digital Imaging. Osman Ratib, to explore and learn about medical digital imaging. He received a grant from the Swiss National Fund to spend one year in UCLA, Los Angeles, with Prof. The first version was developed by Antoine Rosset, a radiologist from Geneva, Switzerland, working now at the La Tour Hospital in Geneva. The OsiriX project started in November 2003. Today one project is generally considered as a reference for DICOM applications : OsiriX. The list is not exhaustive I did the following segmentation to present my personal selection of current DICOM image viewers : Referring to my recent post about the DICOM standard, this contribution presents an overview about an important entity in the medical imaging workflow : DICOM image viewers.