A Picture Archiving and Communication System based on an open and distributed architecture

Author

Ratib, O. ; Ligier, Y. ; Girard, C. ; Perrier, R. ; Logean, M. ; Vurlod, J.F.

Author_Institution

Center of Med. Inf., Univ. Hosp. of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Volume

3

fYear

1992

fDate

Oct. 29 1992-Nov. 1 1992

Firstpage

1197

Lastpage

1198

Abstract

The Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) under development at the University Hospital of Geneva is part of a large hospital information system and is intended as a hospital-wide image management system for radiological and non-radiological images. This system is based on an open architecture regrouping equipment from multiple vendors in a distributed topology. The image archival is organized in multiple locations geographically distributed in the hospital. These regional archives are logically linked together to provide a virtual access to all images generated from different imaging modalities.

Keywords

PACS; distributed processing; document image processing; medical image processing; radiology; topology; PACS; distributed architecture; distributed topology; hospital information system; hospital-wide image management system; image archival; imaging modality; multiple vendors; nonradiological images; open architecture regrouping equipment; picture archiving and communication system; virtual access; Biomedical imaging; Picture archiving and communication systems; Servers; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1992 14th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0785-2

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-0816-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1992.5761448

Filename

5761448