Kamauu Aaron W C, Whipple Jeffrey J, DuVall Scott L, Siddiqui Khan M, Siegel Eliot L, Avrin David
Department of Methodology and Innovation, Roche Palo Alto, 3431 Hillview Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
Radiographics. 2008 Jul-Aug;28(4):933-45. doi: 10.1148/rg.284075210.
The digital revolution in radiology introduced the need for electronic export of medical images. However, the current export process is complicated and time consuming. In response to this continued difficulty, the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative published the Teaching File and Clinical Trial Export (TCE) integration profile. The IHE TCE profile describes a method for using existing standards to simplify the export of key medical images for education, research, and publication. This article reviews the authors' experience in implementing the TCE profile in the following three processes: (a) the retrieval of images for a typical teaching file application within a TCE-compliant picture archiving and communication system (PACS); (b) the export of images, independent of TCE compliance of the PACS, to a typical teaching file application; and (c) the TCE-compliant transfer of images for publication. These examples demonstrate methods with which the TCE profile can be implemented to ease the burden of collecting key medical images from the PACS.
放射学领域的数字革命带来了医学图像电子导出的需求。然而，当前的导出过程复杂且耗时。针对这一持续存在的难题，整合医疗卫生企业（IHE）计划发布了教学文件与临床试验导出（TCE）集成规范。IHE TCE规范描述了一种利用现有标准来简化关键医学图像导出以用于教育、研究和出版的方法。本文回顾了作者在以下三个过程中实施TCE规范的经验：（a）在符合TCE的图像存档与通信系统（PACS）中为典型教学文件应用检索图像；（b）将图像导出至典型教学文件应用，而不考虑PACS是否符合TCE；以及（c）符合TCE的图像传输以用于出版。这些示例展示了可实施TCE规范以减轻从PACS收集关键医学图像负担的方法。
