IMPACT: inter-hospital PACS testbed based on super high definition imaging system and ATM network for tele-diagnosis experiment

Author

Sakano, T. ; Yamaguchi, T. ; Fujii, T. ; Okumura, A. ; Furukawa, I. ; Ono, S. ; Suzuki, J. ; Kohda, E. ; Ando, Y. ; Masaki, H. ; Sugino, Y. ; Kitamura, M. ; Yamane, T.

Author_Institution

NTT Network Innovation Lab., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Abstract

An inter-hospital PACS testbed called IMPACT (Inter-hospital Medical Picture Archiving and Communication system for Telemedicine) is constructed. The testbed applies the Super High Definition (SHD) imaging system as a radiological image viewer and 6 Mbps-135 Mbps Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network to interconnect five medical facilities and NTT R&D Center in and around the Tokyo area. The testbed enables the authors to transmit and display an 8 MB (2048×2048×2 byte) chest image in a few seconds without image compression. A tele-diagnosis experiment using the testbed proved the diagnostic routine time can be reduced from a week to a few minutes. This paper reports the system configuration and the experimental results

Keywords

PACS; asynchronous transfer mode; diagnostic radiography; image resolution; telemedicine; 1 w; ATM network; IMPACT; NTT R&D Center; Tokyo area; diagnostic routine time; inter-hospital PACS testbed; radiological image viewer; super high definition imaging system; system configuration; tele-diagnosis experiment; Computed tomography; Image databases; Picture archiving and communication systems; Postal services; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804393

Filename

804393