Abstract

PACS provides a consistent model to communicate and to store images with recent additions to fault tolerance and disaster reliability. However PACS still lacks fine granulated user based authentication and authorization, flexible data distribution, and semantic associations between images and their embedded information. These are critical components for future Enterprise operations in dynamic medical research and health care environments. Here we introduce a flexible Grid based model of a PACS in order to add these methods and to describe its implementation in the Children's Oncology Group (COG) Grid. The combination of existing standards for medical images, DICOM, and the abstraction to files and meta catalog information in the Grid domain provides new flexibility beyond traditional PACS design. We conclude that Grid technology demonstrates a reliable and efficient distributed informatics …

Date

2006

Authors

Stephan G Erberich, Manasee Dixit, Vincent Chen, Ann Chervenak, Marvin D Nelson, Carl Kesselmann

Conference

Medical Imaging 2006: PACS and Imaging Informatics

Volume

6145

Pages

203-208

Publisher

SPIE