Abstract
Digital image archiving provides online access to patients' historical images, which facilitates the clinical practice of radiologists and physicians. The archived images can be used as a resource to provide enormous image data in support of medical imaging related research. Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) provide a means to acquire, store, and manage medical images that are produced by a wide variety of imaging equipment. These images can be used for clinical review, diagnosis, and medical imaging related research. When an image archive system is placed in a clinical environment supporting a PACS, reliability and timely access to images become dominant factors in determining whether the archive system is operated satisfactorily. The sophisticated image management software implemented in the archive system therefore plays an important role in providing reliable yet efficient operations that support the archive, retrieval, and distribution of images for the entire PACS. The introduction of Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine provides an industry standard for interconnecting multivendor medical imaging equipment and PACS components, allowing communication of images and exchange of information among these individual computer systems.
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