Wii Takes the Controls from PACS

Ms. PACS: Wii may have just made it's way into medical imaging - in particular PACS. Now you can use Wii for more than just virtual bowling, tennis or any other Wii sport. The Wiimote lets you zoom, pan, scroll, and more, remotely.

The Wii remote is interfaced with GlovePIE, allowing the end user to interface with images, scroll through a CT volume data set. GlovePIE is a program that lets you turn a Wii Remote into a mouse, joystick, or even script it for unique functions in games and software.

The developer says this is where Radiology reads a case in a “Minority Report" kind of way. Check out the video demo. The developer says, "This is a simple example of me interfacing for window/level, zoom, pan & slice scrolling features on a CT set of images."

Maybe you can be a WiiPACS beta site! According to the developer, he says, "I’m open to suggestions!”