MEDICAL IMAGES REMOTE CONSULTATION

Maurizio Ferraris (), Paolo Frixione and Sandro Squarcia ()
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Maurizio Ferraris: NACON s.r.l Via Cesarea 2/45, 16121 Genova, Italy
Paolo Frixione: NACON s.r.l Via Cesarea 2/45, 16121 Genova, Italy
Sandro Squarcia: Dipartimento di Fisica Università degli Studi di Genova e Sezione INFN di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova, Italy

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2001, vol. 12, issue 04, 481-486

Abstract: Teleconsultation of digital images among different medical centers is now a reality. The problem to be solved is how to interconnect all the clinical diagnostic devices in a hospital in order to allow physicians and health physicists, working in different places, to discuss on interesting clinical cases visualizing the same diagnostic images at the same time. Applying World Wide Web technologies, the proposed system can be easily used by people with no specific computer knowledge providing a verbose help to guide the user through the right steps of execution. Diagnostic images are retrieved from a relational database or from a standard DICOM-PACS through the DICOM-WWW gateway allowing connection of the usual Web browsers to DICOM applications via the HTTP protocol. The system, which is proposed for radiotherapy implementation, where radiographies play a fundamental role, can be easily converted to different field of medical applications where a remote access to secure data are compulsory.

Date: 2001
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