Systems integration for PACS

✍ Scribed by K.K. Chan; Ricky K. Taira

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 530 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-6111
• DOI: 10.1016/0895-6111(91)90007-i

✦ Synopsis

A successful PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) implementation requires an eclectic integration of a number of key technologies. Among these are equipment interfaces, communications, storage, and display. Coincident with this, the software architecture must support a distributed system of heterogeneous structures, provide for protocol and format conversions to a unified system standard, be scalable to accommodate expansion, and provide a measure of fault tolerance. In this paper we survey the current state of the UCLA PACS components and architecture.