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At the Department of Radiology of the University of Graz a PACS has been installed and is used in daily routine. This PACS is interfaced with a RIS. Our experiences show that one of the most urgent clinical interest in PACS is not the reporting on the diagnostic console, but the image transfer to clinical departments where they are not available or only with time delays. Therefore we provide the decentralised access to the images within the PACS and activate the image transfer to the end users of the diagnostic information.
To display the images in the clinical departments, we developed software to turn every standard IBM compatible PC into a cheap image display console. To enable an easy and fast expansion of the PACS structure, a software tool has been developed that enables the definition, generation and installation of software processes which are necessary for the exchange and transfer of images via an interactive user dialogue. To import images from conventional examinations into the PACS, the user interface and software for the image acquisition by a digitizer (Konica) were developed.
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Wiltgen, M. et al. (1993). Image Transfer within the Hospital: Developments and Experiences. In: Lemke, H.U., Inamura, K., Jaffe, C.C., Felix, R. (eds) Computer Assisted Radiology / Computergestützte Radiologie. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49351-5_7
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