Summary: Educational PACS of the Medical University of Szeged
Kuba, A., Csernay, L., Kardos, L., Alexin, Z.,
Nagy, A., Nyúl, L., Almási, L.
(1 page abstract)
This paper describes the Picture Archiving and Communication System
(PACS) developed for the Medical University of Szeged. The main aims of
the development were to provide a tool to collect studies from different
modalities and from different buildings, to archive them in a standard
format and to use the archived information in the education and in the
clinical routine. The system is able to collect studies from CT, MR, NM,
US, SPECT modalities, from Xfilm scanners and from any station
communicating according to DICOM storage query/retrieve service class.
The data are automatically converted from Interfile 3.3, ACRNEMA 2.0 or
TIFF formats into DICOM 3.0 format and stored in the dataserver of the
system. The study headers can be edited by graphic editor programs. The
PACS can collect information also from the Radiology Information System
(RIS) of the Department. In order to have an effective database
management the users may use Oracle to retrieve, present or modify data.
The Oracle system stores the whole header information but does not
contain the image data itself. The clients can reach the database using