American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 163, 1239-1243, Copyright © 1994 by American Roentgen Ray Society
Accessing picture archiving and communication system text and image information through personal computers
MR Ramaswamy, AW Wong, JK Lee and HK Huang
Department of Radiology, University of California at San Francisco 94143-0628.
Recent advances in storage technology have made possible the archiving of
tremendous amounts of text and image information within a picture archiving
and communication system (PACS). However, a radiologist's access to this
information typically has been limited to viewing workstations designed
primarily to support clinical activities. Unfortunately, these workstations
often overlook the benefits of PACS in teaching and research applications,
which are of significant importance in an academic institution. To support
such activities at our own institution, we have included two major
objectives in our second-generation PACS development: (1) to provide access
to text and image information archived within our PACS in an environment
that is easily accessible to and comfortable for our radiologists, namely,
their own Macintosh (Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA) personal computers; and
(2) to provide this information in standard Macintosh formats, so that
tools with which radiologists are already familiar can be used in
frequently performed teaching activities--the production of slides and
prints, the maintenance of personal teaching and research files, and
specialized image analysis and processing.
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