Abstract
Purpose
The aim of this paper is to describe the Web site of the Italian Project on CT Colonography (Research Project of High National Interest, PRIN No. 2005062137) and present the prototype of the online database.
Materials and methods
The Web site was created with Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 software, which allows the realisation of multiple Web pages linked through a main menu located on the home page. The Web site contains a database of computed tomography (CT) colonography studies in the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard, all acquired with multidetector-row CT according to the parameters defined by the European Society of Abdominal and Gastrointestinal Radiology (ESGAR). The cases present different bowel-cleansing and tagging methods, and each case has been anonymised and classified according to the Colonography Reporting and Data System (C-RADS).
Results
The Web site is available at http address www.ctcolonography.org and is composed of eight pages. Download times for a 294-Mbyte file were 33 min from a residential ADSL (6 Mbit/s) network, 200 s from a local university network (100 Mbit/s) and 2 h and 50 min from a remote academic site in the USA. The Web site received 256 accesses in the 22 days since it went online.
Conclusions
The Web site is an immediate and up-to-date tool for publicising the activity of the research project and a valuable learning resource for CT colonography.
Riassunto
Obiettivo
Descrivere il sito web del Progetto Italiano sulla Colonscopia Virtuale (CV), PRIN 2005062137 e, presentare il prototipo del database online.
Materiali e metodi
Il sito web è stato realizzato con il software Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 che consente la realizzazione di pagine web multiple, tra loro collegate attraverso un menu principale localizzato nella home page. Nel suo interno sono archiviati studi DICOM di CV, acquisiti con apparecchiature multistrato seguendo i parametri di qualità definiti dall’ESGAR; i casi presentano differenti metodi di pulizia intestinale. Tutti sono stati anonimizzati e classificati secondo il sistema C-RADS.
Risultati
Il sito è disponibile all’indirizzo www.ctcolonography.org ed è costituito da 8 pagine web. Nelle prove di scaricamento dei dati TC da tecnologia ADSL (6 Mbit/s), un file di 294 Mbytes è stato scaricato in 33 minuti, da rete universitaria (100 Mbit/s) in 200 secondi, da sito remoto accademico negli USA in 2 ore e 50 minuti. Il monitoraggio del numero di accessi in 22 giorni, dal giorno di pubblicazione, ha evidenziato 220 accessi.
Conclusioni
Il sito web è uno strumento immediato e aggiornato per la divulgazione dell’attività di ricerca progettuale e una risorsa didattica di CV.
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Neri, E., Laghi, A., Regge, D. et al. CT colonography: Project of High National Interest No. 2005062137 of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR). Radiol med 113, 1126–1134 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11547-008-0332-z
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