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Radiology dictation software for Mac

Loquen is radiology dictation software for Mac: hold one key, talk, let go, and clean, punctuated text lands at your cursor on your Mac. Its Radiology pack holds 271 terms, so FINDINGS:, T2-weighted and the Bosniak classification come out spelled the way you write them.

What the Radiology pack covers

In the pack’s own words: Diagnostic and interventional radiology vocabulary covering report structure and phrasing, imaging descriptors, cross-sectional findings, modalities, contrast, and image-guided procedures. That is 271 entries. Each one is the spelling you want typed, most with the mishearings a general speech model produces for it. When a term shows up in a dictation, the AI cleanup is told not to “correct” it.

• FINDINGS:
• IMPRESSION:
• hypoattenuating
• hyperechoic
• T2-weighted
• FLAIR sequence
• diffusion-weighted imaging
• susceptibility-weighted imaging
• ring-enhancing lesion
• spiculated margins
• ground-glass opacity
• tree-in-bud opacities
• interlobular septal thickening
• Fleischner Society guidelines
• Lung-RADS
• BI-RADS
• LI-RADS
• Bosniak classification
• insular ribbon sign
• subfalcine herniation
• appendicolith
• pneumatosis intestinalis
• transarterial chemoembolization
• digital breast tomosynthesis
• gadoxetate disodium
• multiplanar reformatted images

A sample of 26 of the 271 terms, exactly as the pack types them.

What you say, what gets typed

The left column is how a general speech model tends to write the spoken words. The pack swaps it for the right column before the text is pasted.

How it fits the day

Report headings are entries too. Say “findings colon” and FINDINGS: is typed; the same goes for TECHNIQUE:, COMPARISON:, INDICATION: and IMPRESSION:. Loquen pastes at the cursor in any app with a text field, so the report lands in whichever window has focus. Double-tap the key for hands-free; Esc cancels with nothing pasted.

The pack works alongside Medical core (2,307 terms, built around drug names, generic and brand, plus exam language, labs and imaging) and Pharmacology, which covers the long tail of drug classes. Every pack is included in the price. The packs are English only so far.

The pack also ships a starter set of phrases. A phrase is a named block of text: say its name anywhere in a sentence and the whole block pastes, untouched by the AI. Rename the starters, rewrite them, or add your own.

Private by default

Speech to text and AI cleanup run on the Mac’s own chip. In Private mode, the default, nothing you say leaves the computer: no audio, no text. The initial approximately 2.2 GB model download uses the network but carries no dictation. After setup, licence validation and update checks can use the network and carry no audio or text. No account, no telemetry, no screenshots. Built for HIPAA the simple way: patient notes never touch a server, so there is no server to trust. HIPAA compliance is about a practice’s whole workflow, so check with your compliance officer.