Hospital-wide PACS with a digital image intensifier TV system.
Tokyo Hitachi Hospital, Hitachi Ltd., has used a hospital-wide PACS for over 1 year. The system runs a 100 Mb/s optical fiber network over the whole hospital including wards and outpatient clinic rooms, with 11 image workstations. The network links digital imaging modalities such as X-CT, MRI, computed radiography (CR) and digital radiography (DR) with a 2048 x 2048 (2k x 2k) matrix image intensifier television (I.I.-TV) system. These modalities generate about 200 images/day. The system has managed over 300,000 images of about 8000 patients so far. Although being still under improvement, the system has really been used for routine work. The hospital-wide PACS of a small hospital has been proved to be very useful for both image diagnosis and image management.
Tokyo Hitachi Hospital, Hitachi Ltd, Japan.
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D016288:Computer Terminals; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology; D006801:Humans; D008122:Local Area Networks; D055100:Optical Fibers; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013690:Television