| Series Preface | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| Background | |
| The Internet/World Wide Web (WWW) | |
| The Concepts | p. 3 |
| A Very Brief History | p. 3 |
| What Is the Internet Today and How Does It Affect the Radiologist? | p. 4 |
| The Bricks: Networks | p. 5 |
| What Are LANs, WANs, and MANs? | p. 7 |
| Other Description Schemes | p. 7 |
| What Is an Intranet? | p. 8 |
| What Is a Firewall? | p. 9 |
| The Mortar: Protocols | p. 10 |
| General Internet Protocols and Languages | p. 10 |
| Health-Care Protocols | p. 13 |
| Imaging Standards and Protocols | p. 14 |
| Buildings/Organizations: The World Wide Web | p. 20 |
| How Does It Work? | p. 20 |
| What Is a Web Page and a Web Site? | p. 21 |
| What Is a Home Page? | p. 22 |
| What Is a URL (Uniform Resource Locator)? | p. 22 |
| What Are Search Engines? | p. 23 |
| What Are Portals? | p. 24 |
| Getting Wired | |
| Computers: Selecting a Computer for the Radiologist | p. 26 |
| Central Processing Unit (CPU) | p. 27 |
| Random Access Memory (RAM) | p. 27 |
| Video Cards/Monitor | p. 27 |
| Other Storage Devices | p. 28 |
| Connections: What Should I Get? | p. 29 |
| POTS: Plain Old Telephone System | p. 29 |
| Broadband Connections | p. 30 |
| Less Common Options | p. 32 |
| Other Data Technologies | p. 33 |
| Security | p. 34 |
| Tools of Utility | |
| General Applications Every Radiologist Will Use | |
| E-mail | p. 37 |
| Terminology | p. 38 |
| Programs and Applications | p. 38 |
| Text and Attachments | p. 38 |
| Mailing Lists and Newsgroups | p. 39 |
| Specific Applications on Browsers | p. 43 |
| Electronic Education: Teaching Files and the Internet | |
| Creating an Internet-Based Teaching File | p. 46 |
| Obtaining Digital Images | p. 46 |
| Adding Textual Data | p. 49 |
| Distribution | p. 50 |
| Viewing Your Teaching File | p. 51 |
| What About CME? | p. 52 |
| Technologies Revolutionizing Radiology | |
| PACS: Picture Archiving and Communication Systems | |
| Image Acquisition | p. 56 |
| Image Archiving | p. 58 |
| Short Term | p. 58 |
| Medium Short Term | p. 59 |
| Long Term | p. 59 |
| Image Transmission | p. 60 |
| Image Interpretation | p. 60 |
| ACR Standards | p. 61 |
| Conclusion | p. 61 |
| Teleradiology | |
| History and Perspective | p. 62 |
| Digitizing Images | p. 63 |
| File Sizes | p. 63 |
| Image Compression | p. 64 |
| Image Transmission | p. 64 |
| Image Interpretation | p. 65 |
| Report Generation | p. 65 |
| Security | p. 65 |
| ACR Standards | p. 66 |
| Conclusion | p. 66 |
| Voice Recognition | |
| Technology | p. 68 |
| Speech Recognition | p. 69 |
| Speech Synthesis | p. 69 |
| Speaker Identification and Verification | p. 69 |
| Natural Language Understanding | p. 69 |
| Software | p. 70 |
| Open RIS/HIS Interface | p. 70 |
| Prestored Reports | p. 70 |
| Templates | p. 70 |
| Addendum | p. 71 |
| User-Defined Fields | p. 71 |
| Bar Code Interface | p. 71 |
| System Security | p. 71 |
| VR: One Story | p. 71 |
| Implementation | p. 72 |
| Challenges and Improvements | p. 72 |
| Benefits | p. 73 |
| Conclusion | p. 73 |
| Electronic Medical Record and Patient Care Specific to Radiology | |
| What Are the Benefits of the Electronic Patient Record? | p. 76 |
| Standards | p. 76 |
| Integration | p. 76 |
| Telemedicine/Teleradiology and the EMR | p. 77 |
| The Internet and the EPR | p. 78 |
| Internet-Based Medical Image Distribution | p. 78 |
| Costs | p. 79 |
| EMR: One Story | p. 79 |
| Getting to a Web-Based Solution | p. 80 |
| Image Data Repository | p. 81 |
| Caveats | p. 81 |
| Hardware | p. 82 |
| Image Flow/Work Flow | p. 83 |
| Future Applications | p. 83 |
| Resources | |
| Radiology Web Sites | |
| Portals | p. 87 |
| Education | p. 87 |
| Modalities | p. 98 |
| Nuclear Medicine | p. 99 |
| MRI | p. 104 |
| Ultrasound | p. 111 |
| CT | p. 114 |
| Journals/Publications | p. 114 |
| Magazines | p. 119 |
| Divisions/Departments | p. 120 |
| Vendors | p. 139 |
| Book Vendors/Teaching Materials | p. 143 |
| Associations/Centers | p. 144 |
| Patient Resources | p. 152 |
| Portals | p. 153 |
| Appendices | |
| ACR Standard for Digital Image Data Management | |
| ACR Standard for Digital Image Data Management | p. 159 |
| Introduction and Definition | p. 160 |
| Goals | p. 160 |
| Qualifications and Responsibilities of Personnel | p. 161 |
| Equipment Specifications | p. 162 |
| Documentation | p. 166 |
| Quality Control and Improvement, Safety, Infection Control, and Patient Education Concerns | p. 166 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 167 |
| References | p. 167 |
| Appendix A Glossary | p. 168 |
| ACR Standard for Teleradiology | |
| ACR Standard for Teleradiology | p. 176 |
| Introduction and Definition | p. 176 |
| Goals | p. 176 |
| Qualifications of Personnel | p. 177 |
| Equipment Specifications | p. 178 |
| Licensing, Credentialing, and Liability | p. 181 |
| Documentation | p. 182 |
| Quality Control and Improvement, Safety, Infection Control, and Patient Education Concerns | p. 182 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 183 |
| References | p. 183 |
| Appendix A Glossary | p. 185 |
| Glossary | p. 193 |
| Index | p. 205 |
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