[The system of collection, processing, storage and retrieval of x-ray diagnostic images]. / Sistema polucheniia, obrabotki, arkhivirovaniia i peredachi rentgenodiagnosticheskikh izobrazhenii.

The paper describes a system able to combine conventional techniques of diagnostic x-ray imaging with direct digital imaging on the original receiver with a resolution of 1.2 lin/mm. Digital roentgenography may be introduced into medical practice basing on the system of computers at the working places of roentgenologist and his assistant. Data base of long-term storage of x-ray images and input software for each x-ray picture are outlined. The authors have some experience of utilizing the system in the random sequence of patients (20,000) in general and specialized hospitals of Novosibirsk.

[Digital x-ray system (data collection, processing, storage and transmission of diagnostic information)]. / Tsifrovaia rentgenograficheskaia sistema (poluchenie, obrabotka, khranenie i peredacha diagnosticheskoi informatsii).

The paper deals with the system that allows the conventional procedures for obtaining diagnostic X-ray images to be integrated with direct digital ones. It presents patterns of introducing digital roentgenography into practical medicine and describes the system how diagnostic X-ray images are obtained, processed, stored, and transmitted, which consists of automatic working places for X-ray laboratory assistant and an X-ray physician. The requirements for long-term diagnostic archives data base and for the software support of input of the data accompanying each X-ray film are discussed in the paper. The information presented reflects the authors' experience in using the system in a multidisciplinary hospital having an unselected stream of patients (n = 6,000).