title: Infrastructure design of a picture archiving and communication system.
abstract: A picture archiving and communication system (PACS) infrastructure is the necessary framework to integrate distributed and heterogeneous imaging systems, provide intelligent data-base management of all radiology-related information, arrange an efficient means of viewing, analyzing, and documenting study results, and furnish a mechanism for effectively communicating study results to the referring physician. The PACS infrastructure consists of a basic skeleton of hardware components integrated by standardized, flexible software subsystems. This review describes these concepts and basic building blocks drawn from our original investigation, past experience, and the current clinical system in our radiology department.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90024-1721.
authors.forename: H K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Taira
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D011873:Radiology Information Systems