Abstract

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) have become the standard for digital image warehousing within hospitals and practice networks. However PACS are monolithic systems not intended to communicate in a flexible and dynamic way to affiliated hospitals or to support ad-hoc tele-radiology between outside physicians or radiologists. Enterprise PACS provides only limited and mostly vendor restricted access to outside affiliates. Here we present an extension to traditional PACS which bridges between institutional PACS and dynamic medical data Grids. A data Grid is a collection of IT services which provide access control, distributed data management, and publication and discovery methodologies. We describe how existing data Grid technology can be used toward a medical data Grid by adding a DICOM Grid Interface service. The service implements an Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA …

Date

June 1, 2006

Authors

SG Erberich, M Bhandekar, MD Nelson, A Chervenak, C Kesselman

Journal

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

Volume

1

Pages

100

Publisher

SPRINGER SCIENCE+ BUSINESS MEDIA