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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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Benefits of Teleradiology to Telehealth

Future Teleradiology

A couple of days ago an interesting case study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Initially, film was passed with the help of a digitizer but now it is done by using direct digital capture. Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is used to transmit and store data.

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What is DICOM Image Format & Why is It Important in Radiology?

Intelerad

DICOM Image Format is an international standard to transmit, store, retrieve, print, process, and display medical imaging information. DICOM allows transmitting medical imaging data to devices like scanners, servers, workstations, printers, network hardware, and PACS. What is DICOM Image Format?

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