Advances in Internet technologies have opened up new opportunities in relation to medical image interpretation. This task can be accomplished outside the hospital using distributed medical imaging applications. In this paper, a Java-based distributed medical imaging application is presented. This application is able to access to a remote medical image dataset via a network and provide the necessary interpretation functions, such as windowing and fly-through visualisations. Experimental results show that this Java-based medical imaging application has the ability to provide comprehensive functionality for radiology interpretation as well as a high level of user friendliness. Thus demonstrating Java is a suitable tool for developing distributed medical imaging applications.