Medical professionals
From visual communication of your findings to educating patients, digital images play a fundamental role in your work. Now, Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 Extended software helps physicians and healthcare professionals communicate even more effectively with powerful tools for publishing and presenting information so you can achieve higher patient satisfaction.
- Key features for medical professionals
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Industry-leading color correction
Enjoy dramatically enhanced color correction with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve color and tone details. Make precise adjustments with Brightness/Contrast and Curves controls, the histogram, color channel lines, and a clipping preview.
Improved Count tool
Easily and accurately tally objects or features in scientific images with the Count tool, which eliminates the need to perform manual calculations or rely on visual assessments of changes from image to image. Save even more time by performing multiple counts in a single image. Use separate colors for each count and save your counts in the file.
Quantitative data extraction
Easily calibrate or set the scale of an image, including setting measurements to the scale information in the header of DICOM files. Use selection tools to define and calculate distance, perimeter, area, and many other measurements. Record data points in a Measurement Log and then export the data, including histogram data, to a spreadsheet for further quantitative analysis.
Scale markers
Easily add scale markers to any image or series of images for presentations or publication.
DICOM image support
Import, correct, annotate, analyze, and create animations from DICOM images. Automatically remove confidential patient data from DICOM metadata and batch save JPEG files for presentations.
DICOM volume rendering
Volume render a DICOM image stack into a 3D anatomical image that can be viewed and explored from all angles and depths.
32-bit high dynamic range (HDR) support
Combine multiple exposures into a single, 32-bit image that preserves the full range of a scene — from the deepest shadows to the brightest highlights. Image processing and alignment algorithms deliver superior results.
Edit tracking
Automatically track all editing steps within your files with the Edit History log. Export steps to a text file or save them as part of image metadata for easier documentation of your work, file audits, and more.
Efficient file management with Adobe Bridge CS4
Get instant access to Adobe Bridge CS4 with faster start-up, use new workspaces to jump to the right display for every task, easily create web galleries and PDF contact sheets, and more.
3D object and property editing
Edit, enhance, and manipulate 3D images in a streamlined interface without dialog boxes. Adjust lighting, meshes, and materials. Easily orient objects and position the camera using 3D axes and a ground plane.
Single-key shortcuts
Edit motion graphics on video layers more efficiently with new single-key shortcuts.
Smooth animation workflow
Easily create animations from a series of still images or video frames with the Animation palette, which enables onion skinning.
High-quality output
Create outstanding print- and presentation-quality 2D and 3D composites with a new ray-tracing rendering engine, which also lets you print lenticular 3D images and generate interactive 3D PDF files.
Higher performance on very large images (Windows only)
Work faster with very large images by taking advantage of even more RAM (requires a 64-bit-capable computer with a 64-bit version of Microsoft® Windows® Vista®).
Integration with other Adobe software
Be productive with enhanced integration between Photoshop Extended and other Adobe applications you depend on for visualization and collaboration, including Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat®, Adobe Illustrator®, and Adobe InDesign®.
- Software and solutions
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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended for medical professionals
Maximize the power of digital images to document and facilitate patient care and enhance communication with patients and colleagues.
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Extend your creativity with plug-ins
Plug-ins add capabilities to Adobe applications, allowing you to be more creative and productive. To automate or customize your production tasks, generate professional effects, or work faster and easier, just plug in!
DICOMaccess, by DesAcc, Inc.
With DICOMaccess, Photoshop can transparently read and write DICOM files.
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended and DesAcc Solutions for Medical Imaging
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- Tutorials
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- Optimum strategies for using Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended in biomedical imaging (PDF, 2.6M)
- Annotate images (PDF, 879k)
- Calibrate, record, export image measurements (PDF, 884k)
- Combine multiple images: auto align (PDF, 1.3M)
- Create a composite image from DICOM files (PDF, 587k)
- Create DICOM animations with DICOM files (PDF, 989k)
- Create Flash-based animations with DICOM files (PDF, 1.0M)
- Establish image measurement scale (PDF, 512k)
- Improve image clarity: convert to black and white (PDF, 714k)
- Make selective and global image adjustments (PDF, 1.3M)
- Sharpen DICOM images (PDF, 1.2M)
- Other resources
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