1984 Volume 40 Issue 3 Pages 420-424
Today, hospitals are storing and utilizing medical image data manually. Moreover, because of new imaging diagnostic equipments, the use of image data has greatly increased resulting in too much tasks of storing, transporting and retrieving this data, therefore causing many troublesome problems for the function and management of hospitals. To solve these problems, TOSHIBA has developed TDIS, Total Digital Imaging System, which realizes the effective and economical performance of imaging diagnosis by incorporating many latest techniques ; sensing, collecting, mass storage, high speed retrieval, fast transmission, data process and high resolution display of medical images. TDIS is contained in the field of the technique on Picture Archiving and Communication System so called PACS. Annually International Conference of Picture Archiving and Communicaton for Medical Applications is held, and many engineers and doctors from many kinds of fields participate in research and development of these systems. A stationary card optical data storage device is described. Digital x-ray images were stored and retrieved at high data rates. Average density can be approximately 3×10^3 bits per in^2. A card has certain advantages for medical data archiving.
