PACS pitfalls and bottlenecks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3035, Issue , 1997, Pages 2-5

  Huang, H K ^a   Lou, S L ^a   Wong, W K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Human errors; Image acquisition; PACS operation; Pitfalls and bottlenecks; Workstations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERRORS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMALS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TABLE LOOKUP;

CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; CLINICAL EXPERIENCE; HUMAN ERRORS; IN-SERVICE TRAINING; OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT POSITIONING; PITFALLS AND BOTTLENECKS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0010360616     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.274553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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