title: [DACS--a cost-advantageous nuclear medical document archiving and communication system].
abstract: A simple and inexpensive solution for the complete digital management of a nuclear medical institution is presented. The starting point was provided by five different gamma cameras, one of which was equipped with a PC-based ICON computer. The remaining cameras were first adapted to ICONs and subsequently integrated into a Macintosh LAN, of 15 computers, allowing the entire image acquisition, processing, interpretation, documentation and archiving to be performed on the same comfortable menu-guided surface. Complete patient management is accomplished by a specific commercially available data base to which a specially developed image and document archive was connected. The system described provides complete digital management without the conventional filing systems at the moderate price of approximately DM 11 x 10(4) plus the cost of the new camera computers.
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004282:Documentation; D015902:Gamma Cameras; D006801:Humans; D008838:Microcomputers; D009683:Nuclear Medicine / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012984:Software
vernacular_title: DACS--Ein kostengünstiges nuklearmedizinisches Dokumentenarchiv- und Kommunikationssystem.