Clinical Competence ; Humans ; Outsourced Services ; Radiology ; education ; trends ; Radiology Information Systems

In this paper, the R-PS integration technique of the digital radiology is discussed. By the integration of the RIS and PACS, all data and information of each system and each medical image equipment in R-PS can be exchanged according to DICOM3.0, and seamless linkage can be realized by module interfaces. R-PS has many advantages such as share, safety, compatibility, practicability and feasibility. Standardization of communication interface, modularization of application and resource share of medical information can be realized by this technique.
Computer Communication Networks ; Hospital Information Systems ; Humans ; Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted ; Radiology ; trends ; Radiology Information Systems ; Software ; Systems Integration ; Teleradiology

In this paper a brief history of the development of PACS in China is reviewed, the current status of PACS is presented, and its development in the future is discussed.
China ; Humans ; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ; Medical Records Systems, Computerized ; Radiology Information Systems ; organization & administration ; trends ; Technology, Radiologic

Within six months of the discovery of X-ray in 1895, the technology was used to scan the interior of the human body, paving the way for many innovations in the field of medicine, including an ultrasound device in 1950, a CT scanner in 1972, and MRI in 1980. More recent decades have witnessed developments such as digital imaging using a picture archiving and communication system, computer-aided detection/diagnosis, organ-specific workstations, and molecular, functional, and quantitative imaging. One of the latest technical breakthrough in the field of radiology has been imaging genomics and robotic interventions for biopsy and theragnosis. This review provides an engineering perspective on these developments and several other megatrends in radiology.
Biological Markers/analysis ; Biomedical Engineering ; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted/*trends ; Diagnostic Imaging/*trends ; Equipment Design ; Genomics ; Humans ; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/*trends ; Radiology Information Systems/*trends ; Robotics ; Systems Integration ; User-Computer Interface

Digital Image Communication in Medicine (DICOM) defines a standard method to store and transmit digital medical image information, in which there is a piece of implemented protocol named DICOM-RT that specially addresses both the transmission of radiation therapy image data and the ancillary data. In this paper, we firstly introduce the DICOM-RT with the emphases on its components, relationship with radiotherapy and how to produce the DICOM-RT object that refer to some certain radiotherapy information. Then we expatiate on the impact that benefits from applying DICOM-RT to radiotherapy, with an aid to accelerate its application in China.
Automatic Data Processing ; Computer Communication Networks ; Humans ; Radiology Information Systems ; standards ; Radiotherapy ; standards ; trends ; Radiotherapy, Computer-Assisted ; methods ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed