PACS Flashcards
A PACS consists of:
- Digital acquisition
- Display workstation
- Storage devices
A universally accepted standard for exchanging medical imaging via a networked set of display workstations, archive, and imaging modalities is:
DICOM
A PACS uses a RAID as its main:
Storage device
T/F: Early PACS radiologists believed that they needed four to six monitors to view images.
True
A firewall controls traffic between a single computer and a network in an environment with no:
Security
The acronym PACS stands for ______ system.
Picture archival and communication
Which workstation might be used to print copies of images or burn images to a CD for outside use?
File room workstation
Which advanced function allows the user to remove all tissue above and below a certain threshold and to show the object in three-dimensions for better visualization?
SSD
Which part of the PACS houses all of the historic digital image data along with the current digital data being generated by the modalities?
Archive
Which of the following would be considered categories of workstation functions?
1. Navigation
2. Image manipulation
3. Image management
1, 2 and 3
Which is the most interactive part of the medical image viewing system?
Display workstation
A radiology information system (RIS) can do what?
Collect and display orders
The software standards used for the exchange of text-based electronic information in health care are known as:
HL-7
Prefetching generally occurs at what time of the day?
Night
The greatest benefit of installing PACS software on existing computers throughout the medical facility is increased:
Access
