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| Thread ID: 127225 | 2012-10-10 19:13:00 | How are X-Ray files transferred between medics? | stuffed (1469) | PC World Chat |
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| 1306231 | 2012-10-10 19:13:00 | Does anyone know the "mechanics" of X-Ray files?! Just that had an X-Ray at our small local hospital and I wanted it sent to my surgeon in another area ASAP. This was one huge technology challenge for the poor lone*radiographer - she didn't know if it was possible but would try through their base hospital. OK got a $20 CD of the scan but come on it can't be dat difficult? | stuffed (1469) | ||
| 1306232 | 2012-10-10 19:23:00 | I think the CD is the way they do it always has been for me and I have had my fair share of Xrays | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1306233 | 2012-10-10 19:24:00 | Just send it attached to an email. If you check on your cd you will find that the file is only a jpg file or similar. No rocket science there. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1306234 | 2012-10-10 22:33:00 | Just out of interest have found out the files are transferred by*PACS (image storage) system | stuffed (1469) | ||
| 1306235 | 2012-10-10 22:47:00 | In Upper Hutt x-ray docs are accessable direct from radiography to the doctor's PC. This also applies to to x-rays taken at Lower Hutt or Wellington hospitals. Over the last 3 or 4 years both SWMBO and I have had many x-rays taken and the doctor shows them to us. Bluenose. |
bluenose (14548) | ||
| 1306236 | 2012-10-10 22:56:00 | Yeah know how easy it is but just wanted to get some info so can kick some bums at our local DHB - which have now done! | stuffed (1469) | ||
| 1306237 | 2012-10-11 19:28:00 | Just out of interest have found out the files are transferred by*PACS (image storage) system www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 1306238 | 2012-10-11 20:08:00 | Well if they do use the PACS system then it's all good, otherwise if they use GSP (Gelatin silver) film emulsions they would have to scan the xray film with a very good quality scanner and then use some other method of transport to send it (Email, FTP CD etc) I'm guessing it depends on the size of the X-ray unit, patient throughput and budget. A small xray setup with only a few people through isn't going to have PACS |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1306239 | 2012-10-11 20:43:00 | After following up from the local DHB CEO I had a very immediate and positive response email and then a phone call from their manager. They are talking to their IT guys and looking at more staff training at their satellite hospital X-Ray department to improve the process. So all in all a good outcome - plus we all now a little more about the X-Ray transfer process! | stuffed (1469) | ||
| 1306240 | 2012-10-12 09:01:00 | Yeah, given x-ray is monochromatic (and typically feeble contrast) you'll want a system that only encodes in mono, but with a very good 'grain' to the greyscale and probably a good reolution as well. You don't want compression artifacts leading to a wrongfull diagnosis, so lossy compression is probably ruled out as well. Filesizes might be significant! I wouldn't chuck it into a jpeg, but even a mono bmp would be massive it was going to do the job justice. Given that skin tones can take on shaded profiles like the isobars on a weather map in jpg formats, if an xray suffered similar compression artifacts the doctors would be chasing worrysome phantom 'shadows' on every chest xray. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
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