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Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)

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Part V:<br />

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Wouldn’t it be excruciat<strong>in</strong>gly bor<strong>in</strong>g to deal with some 20-year-old st<strong>and</strong>ard<br />

without be<strong>in</strong>g able to apply it to the most <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g th<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> today’s digital<br />

imag<strong>in</strong>g? When <strong>DICOM</strong> was born, surrounded by the Stone Age computers of<br />

the 1980s, it was very much ahead of its time. Today, it is constantly at risk of<br />

fall<strong>in</strong>g beh<strong>in</strong>d. Exp<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g cl<strong>in</strong>ical networks, complex hardware, <strong>and</strong> the entire<br />

radiology workflow challenge not only the st<strong>and</strong>ard, but any current tools <strong>and</strong><br />

abilities, human <strong>in</strong>cluded. <strong>DICOM</strong> is forced to evolve daily, adjust<strong>in</strong>g to this<br />

new reality.<br />

In this part of the book, we will enterta<strong>in</strong> ourselves with an overview of<br />

the most highly-evolv<strong>in</strong>g areas of digital medic<strong>in</strong>e, <strong>and</strong> the challenges they<br />

present.

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