Dr. Ratib and Antoine Rosset, M.D., a radiologist in Geneva, Switzerland, recently developed OsiriX, Macintosh-based software for display and manipulation of complex medical image data.

"We chose to do it on the Macintosh because of the high performance of Mac graphics," Dr. Ratib says. "The purpose is to be able to quickly and interactively manipulate very large data sets in 3D, 4D and even 5D. It's amazing how much performance we get."

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