Hospital-integrated PACS at the University Hospital of Geneva

Osman M. Ratib; Yves Ligier; Denis Hochstrasser; Jean-Raoul Scherrer

doi:10.1117/12.45289

1 July 1991 Hospital-integrated PACS at the University Hospital of Geneva

Osman M. Ratib, Yves Ligier, Denis Hochstrasser, Jean-Raoul Scherrer

Proceedings Volume 1446, Medical Imaging V: PACS Design and Evaluation; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.45289
Event: Medical Imaging '91, 1991, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The PACS under development at the University Hospital of Geneva is a hospital-wide image management system for radiological as well as non-radiological medical images which is part of one of the widest hospital information systems (HIS) in Switzerland (Diogene system). It is based on a multi-vendor open architecture and a set of widely available industry standards, namely: Unix as the operating system, TCP-IP as network protocol and an SQL-based distributed database (INGRES) that handles both the PACS and the HIS. The PACS is based on a distributed architecture of servers of two types: the archive servers connected to the sources of images and equipped with large optical disk libraries (jukeboxes) and display servers distributed over the hospital. A standard image storage format was developed based on the ACR-NEMA standard. This file format (the PAPYRUS format) allows storage of sets of images as a sequence of ACR-NEMA messages in an 'encapsulated' file structure. In order to provide a more uniform user interface on a variety of different workstations, a common platform for image display and manipulation called OSIRIS is developed based on X-11 windowing system and OSF/Motif extension. Such a platform is designed to be portable to any computer running Unix and equipped with a graphic display system running X-11. Because this software is written in the object-oriented language C++, it is easily expandable and easily adaptable to different needs and requirements.

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Osman M. Ratib, Yves Ligier, Denis Hochstrasser, and Jean-Raoul Scherrer "Hospital-integrated PACS at the University Hospital of Geneva", Proc. SPIE 1446, Medical Imaging V: PACS Design and Evaluation, (1 July 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.45289

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