Practical mini-PACS based on a hybrid video and digital network.
The Department of Radiology of the Shinshu University Hospital is presently in the process of developing a new type of mini-PACS with a hybrid architecture consisting of a video and a digital image archiving network. The video block consists of a server station with a video write-once optical disk (LD) and three workstations which are connected to two ultrasound imaging devices and an MRI device. The video images from any of these imaging devices are transferred immediately onto an LD. The examiner can observe the archived images immediately without any interruption of the examination. The image transmission time, including the record and play-back, is within 3 s. The digital block consists of a personal computer server and various workstations linked to the ETHERNET. This digital system supports database management, and archives digital images. This prototype system was used for daily clinical examinations from February 1989 to January 1990 and 31,366 images from 1561 patients were stored on the video disk. This one year experience suggests that a hybrid mini-PACS system is practical for total image archiving when the image matrix is less than 512 x 512 and selected digital image archiving.
Design and implementation of a picture archiving and communication system for pediatric radiology.
This work was supported in part by PHS grant number 2 AOl CA 39063-03A1 awarded by the National Cancer Institute and Konica Photo Industries (Tokyo, Japan); Philips MediCal Systems (Shelton, CT); Mitsubishi ElectriC, Gould/Imaging and Graphics Division (Fremont, CA); and 3M Corporation (St. Paul, MN). 1 All authors: Medical Imaging Division and Pediatric Radiology Section, Department of RadiolOgical Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Address reprint requests to H. K. Huang, Medical Imaging DMsion B2-030 CHS, Dept. of RadiolOgical Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1721. 1117
Fascism and the right in Europe, 1919-1945
This new text places interwar European fascism squarely in its historical context and analyses its relationship with other right wing, authoritarian movements and regimes. Beginning with the ideological roots of fascism in pre-1914 Europe, Martin Blinkhorn turns to the problem-torn Europe of 1919 to 1939 in order to explain why fascism emerged and why, in some settings, it flourished while in others it did not. In doing so he considers not just the 'major' fascist movements and regimes of Italy and Germany but the entire range of fascist and authoritarian ideas, movements and regimes present in the Europe of 1919-1945.