Digital and Medical Imaging

Digital Medical Imaging and Storage An Overview Overview Digital technology is the future of every industry, including the medical field. Medical technology has jumped forward in the past fifty years. Everything from digital monitoring of patients to the hyper-advanced laser surgeries, it is incredible to see to progression of medical technology and where it is going. One of the most rapidly developing branches of medical technology is medical imaging. The branch of the medical field is

A picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is a computerized medical technology that replaces the roles of conventional radiological film to digital form. PACS is used in a different department in the hospital, such as radiology, cardiology, and intensive care unit. PACS can be used for storing, sending, retrieving images and information from different places at different time. PACS is also important in the present for cardiologist who perform procedure using images   I. Introduction      

NASA’s Digital Breast Biopsy System By definition, the NASA’s Digital Breast biopsy system is the procedure of locating and scrutinizes abnormities through the technology of mammography. Formed by the foundations of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the development of the Digital Breast Biopsy system, has extended to possibilities of science, by advancing in ‘life-changing’ clinical performances, to support patients with earlier detections of breast cancer. By the Digital Breast Biopsy system improving

patient care and assisting physicians with complex cases. The first discovery of imaging technology was in 1895 by a German scientist named Wilhelm Roentgen, who won the first physics Nobel Prize in 1901. (Morris, 1525-1527) (Frie) His discovery opened the door for progressing developments in medical imagery such as the use of contrast agents to better visualize organs and the testing of the first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device in the 1980’s. (Morris, 1525-1527) (Frie) We have moved away from

Digital radiography (DR) is a revolutionary invention in radiography. With this technology, no cassette is needed for an x-ray examination meaning that there is no need to reload films or to erase imaging plate in every examination. This is a distinctive feature which conventional radiography and computed radiography (CR) do not have. DR was first introduced in 1996 (Carroll, 2011). Miniature electronic x-ray detectors are used as the image receptor. The detectors enable the direct capture of the

Kodak over the past five years. BACKGROUND Originally founded in 1880 by George Eastman, the Eastman Kodak company now stands as a leader in the infoimaging industry. Infoimaging is a $385 billion industry that consists of using traditional and digital film to allow people to capture and deliver images through cameras, computers, and the media. Currently under the direction of Chairman and CEO Daniel A. Carp, Eastman Kodak is divided into three major areas

innovations. For decades, radiologists’ interpretations were available only on paper. Transcriptionists converted dictation tapes into text, hence no voice recognition software was available and usually clinical reports were received via fax or by mail, medical orders and notes were written with pen and paper in contrast to actual computerized order entries. In fact,

Medical imaging, as we all know, is the process of taking images of various parts of the human body for diagnostic and surgical purposes. Some of the popular medical imaging modalities are X-ray radiography, Magnetic resonance imaging, Medical ultrasound, Computed tomography etc. Since, these images contain clinical data of extreme importance for treatment follow-ups and are acquired at cost of radiation exposure, infrastructure, money and time involved. Thus, once acquired, the medical imaging data

The first opportunity for Texas Health Care Imaging is the business slant with the development towards coordinating computerized imaging and electronic restorative records. The move in the medical services industry is consistently acknowledged to advance toward an electronic restorative record and part of that includes a total digital solution of imaging examinations. U.S. Federal government regulations are forcing the industry towards direct digital imaging solutions by 2017 to maintain current Medicare

this paper, I will be discussing what the advantages and the disadvantages of Digital Radiography in Diagnostic Radiology. Further more present factors with each subject showing how they are distinguished as an advantage and an disadvantage. Time, money, and radiation dosage to the patient are very important factors these days because of how many different regulations there are and the concerns for the patient as well. Digital Radiography also known as DR is static images produced with a fan x-ray beam