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PACS: Diminishing the Distance and Enabling the Real-Time Services in Teleradiology

Cloudex Radiology

PACS – Picture Archiving and Communication System; a system involved in acquiring the medical images, transmission, viewing, storage, and retrieval of same images. The fundamental parts of PACS are – imaging acquisition, display workstations, archive servers.

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A brief history of radiology

Radiology Cafe

After working for weeks in his lab experimenting on the production of ‘strange rays’, which he referred to as ‘X’, he asked his wife Anna Bertha to lend ‘a hand’, the left one to be precise, which he used to produce the first X-ray image. after seeing the image. (2) It all started when Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays in 1895.