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The acronym PACS was introduced in connection with the “First International Conference and Workshop on Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) for Medical Applications” in 1982 (1). PACS in themselves were no novelties; manual analog PACS were and are abundant. Even today imaging departments still rely heavily on “manual retrieval and transmission” of analog radiographic films from central film rooms, of floppy disks and mag-tape reels containing digital CT-images etc. The novelty was the concept of a “Computer-assisted PACS” as the first step towards a filmless medical imaging department, and the systematic approach to the problems of image retrieval, communication and archiving.
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Lamm, IL., Möller, T. (1991). PACS and Radiotherapy. In: Demongeot, J., Pereira, A.S. (eds) ISCAMI 1. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-8178-0883-3_18
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