Neuroradiology workstation reading in an inter-hospital environment: A nineteen month study

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 309-317

  Huang, H K ^a   Lou, S L ^a   Dillon, William P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Display workstation; Picture archiving and communication system (PACS); Softcopy reading; Teleradiology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGY; RADIOLOGY;

NEURORADIOLOGY WORKSTATION; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (PACS); SOFTCOPY READING; TELERADIOLOGY;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER NETWORK; COST; DATA BASE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING;

AMBULATORY CARE; CALIFORNIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATA COLLECTION; DATA DISPLAY; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITALIZATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEURORADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 0031225142     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(97)00029-3     Document Type: Article

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