Quality review center meets multi-institutional PACS challenges

February 27, 2008 Quality review center meets multi-institutional PACS challenges Douglas Page -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of the major challenges in providing management of imaging studies for multi-institutional clinical trials is accommodating image files created by a variety of PACS. The Quality Assurance Review Center, a research program within the University of Massachusetts Medical School that supports several National Cancer Institute-sponsored trials, acquires digital imaging data from institutions from around the world. While each site creates and stores imaging studies in DICOM format, DICOM image attributes and values are not uniform among the various vendors.

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