Digital (R)Evolution in Radiology

This book describes the development of Digital Radiology and Networking (commonly named PACS) and outlines future perspectives. It includes an easy, comprehensive overview and how-to guidance for implementing a digital radiology system. The book describes the present state of the art in digital radiology, including the history of digital radiology, planning a digital radiology department, hard- and software components, teleradiology, functional aspects of monitor reporting, virtual reality, 3D practical digital radiography guide, quality assurance, synergy effects, navigation, economical outcome and the virtual patient.

Thoroughly revised and enlarged with brandnew aspects from the integration of digital systems Editor has long practical and theoretical experience Practical and solid guidance on how to set up a digital radiology system

Inhalt
Outlook.- Outlook.- Basics of digital radiology.- Are the new technologies robbing us of our human dignity? About the new sciences within medicine.- Basics of computer technology and digital imaging.- The digital radiology in the digital hospital of the future.- Planning digital radiology: practical approaches.- Radiology information systems in the digital hospital.- Radiology information system and picture archiving and communication system: interfacing and integration.- Horizontal PACS deployment in an integrated system.- Hospital PACS as an agent of continuous change.- Large PACS projects.- A view to the past of the future Digital (r)evolution at the Danube hospital.- Digital history of radiology.- Medical image archives.- Storage and networks.- Applications using new digital technologies.- Reporting from monitors.- Medical reporting using speech recognition The KFJ solution (Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital, Vienna, Austria).- Physiological tests and functional diagnosis with digital methods.- eHealth: The economic perspective.- Image fusion.- Expanding the digital revolution to physical anthropology.- Metropolitan healthcare networking.- Teleconsultation in medicine and radiology theory and legal aspects.- Application service providing (ASP) a challenge for the future of medicine. An example: marc major centre for digital image exchange.- Information Technology (IT) in radiology tele-consultation.- Multimodality registration in daily clinical practice.- Ten years experience with computer-assisted interventions from head to toe.- The therapeutic value of mapping and 3D modeling of cartilage lesions in the knee.- Experiences and future aspects of neuronavigation.- F-18-FDG PET in oncology.- Perfusion and spectroscopy in cerebral magneticresonance tomography (MRT).- Digital mammography.- New advances for imaging laryngo / trachealstenosis by post processing of spiral-CT data.- Current development and economic issues.- Flat panel detectors closing the (digital) gap in chest and skeletal radiology.- Digital radiology and its cost-effectiveness? Experiences and recommendations from Vienna's Donauspital (Danube hospital).- Investing in PACS using real option theory.- Process benchmarking in radiology.- Mobile IT adoption in the enterprise: 2004 update.- Epilogue.- Virtual reality symbiosis of science and art.- Internet activism Beyond Microsoft's walls.