Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa, 2, 56100 Pisa, Italy.
Eur J Radiol. 2011 May;78(2):210-24. doi: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2009.06.022. Epub 2009 Jul 19.
Integration of RIS and PACS services into a single solution has become a widespread reality in daily radiological practice, allowing substantial acceleration of workflow with greater ease of work compared with older generation film-based radiological activity. In particular, the fast and spectacular recent evolution of digital radiology (with special reference to cross-sectional imaging modalities, such as CT and MRI) has been paralleled by the development of integrated RIS--PACS systems with advanced image processing tools (either two- and/or three-dimensional) that were an exclusive task of costly dedicated workstations until a few years ago. This new scenario is likely to further improve productivity in the radiology department with reduction of the time needed for image interpretation and reporting, as well as to cut costs for the purchase of dedicated standalone image processing workstations. In this paper, a general description of typical integrated RIS--PACS architecture with image processing capabilities will be provided, and the main available image processing tools will be illustrated.
将 RIS 和 PACS 服务集成到单个解决方案中已经成为日常放射实践中的普遍现实，与基于胶片的旧一代放射活动相比，它可以极大地加速工作流程，并且工作更加轻松。特别是，数字放射学（特别是横截面成像方式，如 CT 和 MRI）的快速发展，以及集成的 RIS-PACS 系统与先进的图像处理工具（二维和/或三维）的发展齐头并进，这些工具在几年前还是昂贵的专用工作站的专属任务。这种新的情况可能会进一步提高放射科的生产力，减少图像解释和报告所需的时间，并降低购买专用独立图像处理工作站的成本。本文将提供具有图像处理功能的典型集成 RIS-PACS 架构的概述，并说明主要的图像处理工具。
