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Using PowerPoint to Create High-Resolution Images for Journal Publications

¹ Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 1 Deaconess Rd., WCC, Rm. 306, Boston, MA 02215.

View larger version (39K): [in a new window]   Fig. 1 —Screen capture of Registry Editor in Windows XP Professional operating system (Microsoft) shows "ExportBitmapResolution" parameter for setting output image to 300 dots per inch. User can double-click on this parameter to enter another resolution value.

View larger version (31K): [in a new window]   Fig. 2 —Screen capture of Page Setup pop-up window in PowerPoint 2003 (Microsoft) shows settings for creating 5 x 7 inch slide.

View larger version (62K): [in a new window]   Fig. 3 —Screen capture shows CT image inserted into PowerPoint (Microsoft) slide using drag-and-drop function. It also shows action of resizing an image to best fit dimensions—that is, 5 x 7 inches. Note Picture toolbar shows commonly used image-processing tools (e.g., color, contrast, brightness, crop, rotate, and so on).

View larger version (84K): [in a new window]   Fig. 4 —Screen capture of 16-MDCT image of heart (5-mm-thick maximum intensity projection) of 55-year-old man scanned using LightSpeed 16 scanner (GE Healthcare). In this image, an arrow and a label, "A," were drawn using drawing tools from Drawing toolbar in PowerPoint 2003 (Microsoft). Note that using the arrow keys on the keyboard while holding down the Control (Ctrl) key allows greater control of object placement.

View larger version (28K): [in a new window]   Fig. 5A —Screen captures show steps for exporting slide and saving as TIFF file. Screen capture shows Save As window for exporting finished slide to TIFF image. This function can be accessed from File menu. Multiple images can also be saved simultaneously if presentation contains more than one slide. When multiple images are saved with Every Slide option selected, images will be saved as: Slide1, Slide2...within a folder labeled with a given file name. TIFF images then can be renamed.

View larger version (35K): [in a new window]   Fig. 5B —Screen captures show steps for exporting slide and saving as TIFF file. Screen capture of Properties window shows dimensions (2,100 x 1,500 pixels) and resolution (300 dots per inch) of sample TIFF image file (Fig. 5A.tif). This information is displayed under Summary tab.

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