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You're probably right, although that's another problem. I've heard (this is not my area) that most of the big, expensive machines all use their own proprietary
by drinian 16y ago
You're probably right, although that's another problem. I've heard (this is not my area) that most of the big, expensive machines all use their own proprietary image formats.
Although I once had some emergency dental work done in New Zealand, and they were able to give me a laser-printed copy of their digital X-ray along with a printout of my EMR as I was walking out the door.
- rdl 16y agoActually, I unfortunately know a fair bit about medical imaging (since I supported radiology systems for a couple years). There's a ~1980s protocol called DICOM which is largely used to transport images around. It is quite complex for what it actually, has lots of vendor and device inconsistencies, and because medical imaging devices are expensive and have a long duty cycle, you can have a 10-20 year spread of equipment on your network. Some of the actual imaging technologies (MRI, CT, US) are inherently low resolution per image in a study (due to the limits of physics), but a study can be composed of a bunch of images, and it can end up 5-10GB. The high-resolution individual images tend to be x-ray, especially digital mammography.