PACS A Guide to the Digital Revolution /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dreyer, Keith J. (Editor), Thrall, James H. (Editor), Hirschorn, David S. (Editor), Mehta, Amit (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Health informatics.; Radiology.; Interventional radiology.; Nuclear medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.; Health Informatics.; Nuclear Medicine.; Diagnostic Radiology.; Interventional Radiology.; Public Health.

In the modern age of digital health care and medical imaging informatics, Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) have become a fundamental part of the technological infrastructure supporting the practice of radiology. PACS: A Guide to the Digital Revolution, second edition, provides the...

Table of Contents:

• Administrative Issues
• to RIS and PACS
• PACS Strategic Plan and Needs Assessment
• Creating the PACS Request for Proposal and Selecting a Vendor
• Reengineering Workflow: A Focus on Personnel and Process
• Reengineering Workflow: The Radiologist’S Perspective
• Financial Modeling
• Legal Issues and Formal Policies
• Technical Issues
• Computer Fundamentals
• Digital Imaging Fundamentals
• Image Acquisition
• Image Compression
• PACS Architecture
• Networking Fundamentals
• Servers and Operating Systems
• Storage and Enterprise Archiving
• Image Displays
• Digital Mammography
• Web Distribution
• Clinical Issues
• PACS Workstation Software
• Breast Imaging, Computer-Aided Detection, and Computer-Assisted Classification
• Three-Dimensional Imaging in Radiology
• Voice Recognition
• Order Entry in Radiology
• Digital Teaching Files and Education
• Teleradiology.