Detailed description of the Mayo/IBM PACS

Dale G. Gehring; Kenneth R. Persons; Melvyn L. Rothman; James R. Salutz; Richard L. Morin

doi:10.1117/12.45280

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1 July 1991 Detailed description of the Mayo/IBM PACS

Dale G. Gehring, Kenneth R. Persons, Melvyn L. Rothman, James R. Salutz, Richard L. Morin

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Proceedings Volume 1446, Medical Imaging V: PACS Design and Evaluation; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.45280
Event: Medical Imaging '91, 1991, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The Mayo Clinic and IBM/Rochester have jointly developed a picture archiving system (PACS) for use with Mayo's MRI and Neuro-CT imaging modalities. The system was developed to replace the imaging system's vendor-supplied magnetic tape archiving capability. The system consists of seven MR imagers and nine CT scanners, each interfaced to the PACS via IBM Personal System/2(tm) (PS/2) computers, which act as gateways from the imaging modality to the PACS network. The PAC system operates on the token-ring component of Mayo's city-wide local area network. Also on the PACS network are four optical storage subsystems used for image archival, three optical subsystems used for image retrieval, an IBM Application System/400(tm) (AS/400) computer used for database management and multiple PS/2-based image display systems and their image servers.

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Dale G. Gehring, Kenneth R. Persons, Melvyn L. Rothman, James R. Salutz, and Richard L. Morin "Detailed description of the Mayo/IBM PACS", Proc. SPIE 1446, Medical Imaging V: PACS Design and Evaluation, (1 July 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.45280

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