Digital Imaging Network-Picture Archiving and Communication System (DIN-PACS) has been the cutting edge technology in telemedicine and teleradiology world. It enables sharing and processing of patient data and images in a networked environment. This sharing implies a distributed environment where doctors and other health practitioners do not need to be physically present in the data sources in order to access them. This advantage in itself is a very economical alternative in time and money. Furthermore, digital processing enables doctors and health practitioners to acquire, examine, and even digitally manipulate data (text, images, sound, and videos). A reduced rate of image loss probability and inexpensive and fast image storage further provide attractions to digital imaging network. Until recent years, however, DIN-PACS technologies are implemented in a localized environment only, e.g., within a single hospital or clinic. The need to share and process these data in a wider area environment (e.g., inter-hospital, city-wide, state-wide, nation-wide, or even world-wide environment), especially in teleradiology discipline, prompted the concept Virtual Radiology Environment (VRE). Virtual Radiology Environment enables the networking of multiple DIN-PACS, which requires an integrated network design configured for both clinicians and radiologist needs. This dissertation presents the design specification and a CORBA-based prototype implementation of such environment.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/289065 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Pardede, Ferdinand Marinus |
| Contributors | Martinez, Ralph |
| Publisher | The University of Arizona. |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Dissertation-Reproduction (electronic) |
| Rights | Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. |
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