Filmless Radiographic System For Army Field Hospitals

Melvin Siedband; Frank Grenzow; James Gray; Craig Heilman; Huilian Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.953362

25 May 1989 Filmless Radiographic System For Army Field Hospitals

Melvin Siedband, Frank Grenzow, James Gray, Craig Heilman, Huilian Zhang

Proceedings Volume 1093, Medical Imaging III: PACS System Design and Evaluation; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.953362
Event: Medical Imaging III, 1989, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

Small computers incorporating hard disc memory, multiple high resolution monitors and the small computer systems interface (SCSI) can be used for low-cost filmless radiography. A system has been constructed which can perform all of the functions required of a small clinic or field hospital including scheduling, reporting, image acquisition and display, image annotation, image storage and transmission, and control of peripheral devices. The peripheral devices include an optical card reader/writer, an optical disc reader/writer, a SCSI to DIN/PACS port, an Ethernet port and a SCSI to a long distance telephone/computer port, the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) port. Individual patient optical data cards may be prepared, all images and reports may be archived in a small optical disc in the computer, other image sources may be coupled to the system via the DIN/PACS port, data may be exchanged with the local DIN via the Ethernet port and with distant sites via the ISDN port. The small optical data cards, about the size of a credit card, are used for individual patient images and reports. An independent viewer may be used to display the contents of the cards. The result is a complete "filmless and paperless" medical imaging system. The system was developed on Contract DAMD17-88C-8058 with the US Army Medical Research and Development Command.

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Melvin Siedband, Frank Grenzow, James Gray, Craig Heilman, and Huilian Zhang "Filmless Radiographic System For Army Field Hospitals", Proc. SPIE 1093, Medical Imaging III: PACS System Design and Evaluation, (25 May 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.953362

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