Many hospitals are still using low quality video tape or DVD-video to view their swallow studies for speech pathology, The TIMS DICOM System is now being used extensively in these speech pathology applications to record and view the entire procedure on their own computers. Reported advantages to using TIMS for speech pathology applications include:

-Record the entire procedure

-High resolution (1024 x 1024) for superior image quality

-Instant, non-linear access to studies

-Viewer included with stopwatch in 100ths of a second for timing swallow events

-Record to CD/DVD for playback on computer

-Send entire study or portions of the study to PACS

-Easy editing of the study

-Affordable

For a speech pathology case study at the University of Michigan Hospital, go to:
Speech Pathology at the University of Michigan

For a description of TIMS in use for speech pathology applications, go to:
TIMS in use for Speech Pathology

April 2008