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- From: adh@alvin.ach.uams.edu (Alvis Harding Jr.)
- Subject: Need info. on legal status of releasing MR and CT data to public
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- Organization: Arkansas Children's Hospital, Cardiac Imaging
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:08:36 GMT
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- Hello all.
-
- Apologies if this is a slightly inappropriate newsgroup for this posting. We
- do not receive misc.legal at our NNTP site.
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- I'm about to release a beta version of some medical imaging software I've
- been working on for a Sun platform. It would be nice if I could also release
- some MR and CT data so that users could immediatly start using it. What
- I'm wondering about is the legal status of releasing MR and CT data. With
- volumetric data, 3D renderings can be made of the person and that person
- can be recognized (if it is of the head). What are the legal implications of this?
- Do I need the patient's consent to do this? Do I need to tell the Radiology
- department to inform the patients that their data could be used for
- research purposes (and hence released)? In some of the movies I would
- like to release, the skin has either been clipped away or is not displayed
- at all (rendering the person to be unrecognizable). Would I have to
- modify the "raw" MR and CT data to be unrecognizable in this fashion
- as well? Any remarks on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
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- Alvis Harding Jr. adh@george.ach.uams.edu
- Arkansas Children's Hospital
- Cardiac Imaging
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