Clinically-Based Archive Model For A Picture Archive And Communication System

Paul D. Fisher; Gerhard W. Brauer; Peter J. Hughes; Janice M. Lyle; Josip Nosil; Gordon W. Ritchie

doi:10.1117/12.968751

27 June 1988 Clinically-Based Archive Model For A Picture Archive And Communication System

Paul D. Fisher, Gerhard W. Brauer, Peter J. Hughes, Janice M. Lyle, Josip Nosil, Gordon W. Ritchie

Proceedings Volume 0914, Medical Imaging II; (1988) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.968751
Event: Medical Imaging II, 1988, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

As important as the clinical utility of digital radiography is to its acceptance by medical professionals, the performance of the PACS that supports such modalities, as experienced at the diagnostic reporting station, is at least as important. That performance is determined by the network configuration and memory node distribution of the PACS which must be based on the clinical requirements for image communication. To this end accurate film image flow data were accumulated in order to identify and quantify the clinical endpoint flows and volumes that would have to be supported by PACS. Based on those data, a statistical model was developed, and is presented, of the film image flow in a 12-room diagnostic imaging department. Actual image flow data support the authors' contention that, despite current technological limitations, an effective PACS configuration can be developed to provide the same level of image communication service currently provided by the film-based system.

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Paul D. Fisher, Gerhard W. Brauer, Peter J. Hughes, Janice M. Lyle, Josip Nosil, and Gordon W. Ritchie "Clinically-Based Archive Model For A Picture Archive And Communication System", Proc. SPIE 0914, Medical Imaging II, (27 June 1988); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.968751

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