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Digital imaging procedures are characterized by the large volumes of data that can be produced. With routine nuclear medicine studies, a single patient procedure will quickly exceed a one megabyte (Mbyte) storage requirement. Even with the introduction of economical large capacity disk drives allowing for on-line storage, these data continue to pose a significant impediment to the development of PACS (picture archiving and communication) systems. This is because the required storage (space) becomes too large for the available storage and, more significantly, the transmission rate (time) between locations can become too slow to be acceptable in a clinical environment.
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Appledorn, C.R., Todd-Pokropek, A.E. (1988). Error-Free Data Compression Methods Applicable to PACS. In: de Graaf, C.N., Viergever, M.A. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7263-3_22
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