TSG
DICOMTALKS is a Picture Archiving and Communication System
for computerized on-line receiving, storing, archiving and visualizing
of medical images in digital form for use in a department of a hospital.
It communicates with other departments in a local area network or
outside the hospital using wide area network technology. Adoption
of DICOM standard for creating, storing and communicating digital
images has accelerated the development of new solutions in the practice
of medicine. Digital images provide more information to the doctors
compared to images on films. Doctors can use the data for better
diagnosis and treatment of patients. All images can be accessed
and viewed on computer display terminals through PACS implementation
included in this system. The system enables users to capture, process,
and transmit or receive radiological data. Text data, such as studies
and patient data, as well as high-resolution images can be processed
and transmitted. This system is intended for improving the productivity
of the department through better access to medical images for quality
of patient care. The system is designed to be modular. It may be
configured for a small, medium or large department for information
exchange with any DICOM compliant source. The system can also be
configured for a small clinic as well as individual doctor having
access to DICOM images in a network or through media exchange.
Key Features
Capturing and storing of digitized images directly from the
radiology modality in a Image server
Receiving of images in a Network from DICOM source - continues
to listen for new message for transfer of images of another series
Receiving of images from Media Exchange - provides importing
of image objects from another DICOM compliant storage media (e.g.
CD-Drive)
Media Storage Directory SOP Class found on the media provides
the information about image objects
Selected series of image objects are transferred to the database
Receiving of non-DICOM images - Non-DICOM images are typically
images acquired from a film scanner in commercial image formats
used on MS Windows platform. These images are converted into DICOM
format and transferred to a database
Distribution of Images - Images are accessed from any terminal.
Terminal is connected to the server through local area network
or wide area network or through Web
Visualization of images - Image data is converted from pixel
values into shades of gray values for reconstruction of image
for display
Window Center and Window Width concept of image visualization.
Image in DICOM format has large amount of data in terms of shades
of gray or color. Only a small window of this data is displayed
on computer screen. Software provides tools to select the position
and size of this window for visualizing image data. These software
tools enhance the ability of consultants for better diagnosis
or localization of organs at risk
Images may be printed on paper or film. Scaling for this output
is user controlled
Custom functions: Custom functions are created in the software
to meet specific requirements
Archiving and retrieval of Images: This module is used for
taking backup / archiving record(s) and related DICOM data along
with additional data that may be created for supporting custom
functions
TSG
DICOMTALKS is a Picture Archiving and Communication System
for computerized on-line receiving, storing, archiving and visualizing
of medical images in digital form for use in a department of a hospital.
It communicates with other departments in a local area network or
outside the hospital using wide area network technology. Adoption
of DICOM standard for creating, storing and communicating digital
images has accelerated the development of new solutions in the practice
of medicine. Digital images provide more information to the doctors
compared to images on films. Doctors can use the data for better
diagnosis and treatment of patients. All images can be accessed
and viewed on computer display terminals through PACS implementation
included in this system. The system enables users to capture, process,
and transmit or receive radiological data. Text data, such as studies
and patient data, as well as high-resolution images can be processed
and transmitted. This system is intended for improving the productivity
of the department through better access to medical images for quality
of patient care. The system is designed to be modular. It may be
configured for a small, medium or large department for information
exchange with any DICOM compliant source. The system can also be
configured for a small clinic as well as individual doctor having
access to DICOM images in a network or through media exchange.