General DICOM PACS server for echocardiography images

Author

Gerritsen, MGJM ; van der Putten, N. ; Dijk, WA ; Dassen, WRM ; Spruijt, HJ ; Spruijt, EJ ; Uijen, GJH ; Hamers, R.

Author_Institution

Interuniv. Cardiology Inst. of the Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

431

Lastpage

434

Abstract

This study tackles a PC based general DICOM server for storage of studies acquired at all commercially available echocardiography workstations currently in use at the University Hospitals in the Netherlands. This storage can be done by media or network. For transfer via the network the DICOM storage communication protocol is chosen to import DICOM image objects. Via media, DICOM and other formats can be imported. A software module provides for automatic conversion to DICOM part 10 file format. The images are copied to the central repository and the ancillary data, encoded as DICOM tags, are stored to a relational database. References to the images are also table items of the same database. After query and retrieve via SQL, review with a generic DICOM viewer is possible on a routine basis at any PC in the hospital

Keywords

PACS; SQL; echocardiography; file servers; medical information systems; memory protocols; microcomputer applications; relational databases; workstations; DICOM image objects; DICOM network storage protocol; DICOM part 10 file format; DICOM storage communication protocol; DICOM tags; Netherlands; PC based general DICOM server; SQL; University Hospitals; ancillary data; automatic conversion; central repository; echocardiography images; echocardiography workstations; general DICOM PACS server; generic DICOM viewer; media; network; relational database; software module; table items; DICOM; Echocardiography; Hospitals; Image converters; Image storage; Network servers; Picture archiving and communication systems; Protocols; Relational databases; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology, 1999

Conference_Location

Hannover

ISSN

0276-6547

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5614-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.1999.826000

Filename

826000