Chapter 10 - PACS Flashcards
A place where records or documents are preserved
Archive
Archive storage area is often found on:
Magnetic tape or optical disk
PACS archive controls:
Receipt, storage and distribution of new and history images
What is the fastest growing component in the PACS?
Archive
Archive storage capacity is said to _________ every 18-24 months
Double
Two major categories of archiving components
- Image manager and controller
- Image storage and server
Contains the master database of everything that is archived
Image manager
What does the image manager control?
Receipt, retreival, and distribution of images
Image manager also controls all ________ processes running within the archive
DICOM
Image manager runs a commercial database such as:
Sybase or Oracle
The image manager database contains only what type of information?
Header information, not image data
Where is image data stored?
Archive server
That archive server would be useless without:
The complete database
What is the PACS component that interfacecs with the RIS and HIS
Image manager
Image manager contains the DICOM header information:
Patient name
Identification
Exam Date
Ordering Physician
Location
___________ are organized within the image manager database to retreive a query
Fields
Image manager summary:
1. The order is placed in the _______
2. The images are aquired and sent to the _______
3. The image manager strips the header from each image and assigns a ________ to each image
4. The _______ files the information in various fields and communicates back to the RIS
5. A study is queried and pointers locate the images on the __________ and send images to the ______
- RIS
- Archive
- Pointer
- Database
- Archive server; workstation
Consists of the physical storage dervice of the archive system
Image storage or archive server
What are the three tiers of storage:
Short term
Mid term
Long term
Most PACS systems are set up with what type of tier storage?
Short and long term
What is the difference between short term storage and long term storage?
Short term - online; availabe quickly
Long term - images must be retreived from tape or disk storage and brought to RAIDS; can take 1 to 5 minutes
A ______-term tier is commonly a RAID
Short
What does RAID stand for
Redundant array of independent disks
Who coined the term RAID and when?
Patterson, Gibson, and Katz in 1988
How many levels of RAID were originally introduced?
5
What RAID level is data striped across all of the connected disks
RAID 0
What is the term to describe data that is broken up into pieces
Striping
What RAID level is where all the data sent to RAID are mirrored on to two disks
RAID 1
In mirroring, all data are duplicated and placed onto ____ separate disks
Two
What RAID level is data stiped across all of the disks and one disk is set aside for error correction (parity disk)
RAID 3
What RAID level is data striped across all of the disks, including the parity disk
RAID 5