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American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 156, 835-839, Copyright © 1991 by American Roentgen Ray Society

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An ultrafast network for communication of radiologic images

BK Stewart, SL Lou, WK Wong and HK Huang
Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90024-1721.

The three most difficult problems in making picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) a clinical reality in radiology are image archiving, very high-resolution display stations, and high-speed networking. This article considers high-speed image transmission through a high-capacity network. Our laboratory has tested several commercially available high-speed networks over the past year. Only one of these networks (UltraNet) has adequate throughput and capacity potential necessary for our PACS. The focus of this experiment is to determine the throughput and capacity characteristics of this star topology networking scheme as they relate to the operation of a PACS in the clinical environment. A large-scale test was done to gauge network performance for three networking configurations modeling those in a PACS: duplex, parallel, and relay. Ten computers used in our PACS (Sun 3 and 4 computers) were connected with UltraNet. For point-to-point throughput (half-duplex model), the network delivers up to 3.1 megabytes/sec for Sun 3 computers and 6.8 megabytes/sec for the Sun Sparcserver 490. As regards capacity considerations (parallel model), five parallel image transfer processes generated a maximum of 13.9 megabytes/sec through the network. Only a slight degradation in individual process throughput was observed (1.4%). With regard to shared access to high-contention resources on the PACS network (e.g., archive servers), this network demonstrated equal sharing of server networking capacity between the various client computers. With the encouraging results of this experiment, we believe that the UltraNet network will be sufficient for the image communication requirements of our PACS. We are proceeding with the implementation of UltraNet as the high-speed backbone of our extended PACS network.
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