HOSPITAL-WIDE PACS WITH A DIGITAL IMAGE INTENSIFIER TV SYSTEM

Tokyo Hitachi Hospital, Hitachi Ltd., has used a hospital-wide PACS fo r over 1 year.The system runs a 100 Mb/s optical fiber network over th e whole hospital including wards and outpatient clinic rooms, with 11 image workstations. The network links digital imaging modalities such as X-CT, MRI, computed radiography (CR) and digital radiography (DR) w ith a 2048 x 2048 (2k x 2k) matrix image intensifier television (I.I.- TV) system. These modalities generate about 200 images/day. The system has managed over 300000 images of about 8000 patients so far. Althoug h being still under improvement, the system has really been used for r outine work. The hospital-wide PACS of a small hospital has been prove d to be very useful for both image diagnosis and image management.