This course will present an overview of the MIRC project, with emphasis on new developments in the RSNA MIRC implementation over the past year, including teaching file authoring tools, new viewing capabilities, and integration with PACS products through the IHE TCE integration profile. The presentation will also include an overview of MIRC developments in clinical trial support software. Attendees will also learn about the open-source development project for the RSNA MIRC implementation and how to participate in it.

The RSNA Medical Imaging Resource Center (MIRC) project is an initiative providing tools for a global community of teaching file and clinical trial resources on the Internet. The RSNA participates by making available a MIRC-compliant, open-source software package that can be used to install a very capable teaching file system that can also participate in clinical imaging trials as a principal investigator and/or acquisition site. The RSNA's MIRC site (MIRC.rsna.org) offers all the software and documentation for free. It also serves as a portal into the entire community of teaching file sites. The RSNA also manages an open-source project to extend the capabilities of its MIRC implementation. In the past year, many new capabilities have been added. The talk will describe these new capabilities.