Guidelines on Setting Up Stations for Remote Viewing of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Studies During COVID-19

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FIGURE 1.
Color-depth choices in RDP settings for Windows (top) and Mac (bottom).
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FIGURE 2.
(Bottom) Image created with smooth gray-scale range, which should not have visible rings. (Top) Image demonstrating rings that might be seen if display depth is not properly set. (Courtesy of J. Anthony Parker, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.)
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Small portion of SMPTE pattern, with arrows indicating small 5% and 95% boxes that should be visible after monitor calibration. Best viewed in full test pattern (see Table 1).
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FIGURE 4.
Windows (top) and Mac (bottom) screen resolution set for maximum available resolution for that monitor.

TABLE 1

Test Patterns

	Web link to GIF or PNG	Downloadable DICOM image
SMPTE test pattern	http://gamma.wustl.edu/images/smpte.gif also available as first image of https://parker.bidmc.harvard.edu/TestPatterns.html	SMPTE DICOM Image^*
Gray sphere test pattern	http://gamma.wustl.edu/images/bwhtest.gif also available as second image of https://parker.bidmc.harvard.edu/TestPatterns.html	BHW Test Pattern^*
RGB and white uniform images	Red Uniform Image^*	Red Uniform DICOM Image^*
	Blue Uniform Image^*	Blue Uniform DICOM Image^*
	Green Uniform Image^*	Green Uniform DICOM Image^*
	White Uniform Image^*	White Uniform DICOM Image^*

↵* Links are provided on SNMMI Physics, Instrumentation, and Data Sciences Council web page (https://www.snmmi.org/Council.aspx?ItemNumber=6565); navigate to the PIDSC Resources tab.