| 摘要 |
<p>A medical imaging system for communicating image information between a plurality of different medical imaging modalities (12) having different input protocols and a plurality of different laser imagers (18) having different output protocols takes advantage of a reusable, object-oriented software architecture having a plurality of functionally independent components. The individual components can be configured in a communication pipeline (26) to communicate image information between a medical imaging modality (12) and a laser imager (18) according to desired protocols in a networked manner. Each component can be interchanged with a differently configured component to facilitate communication of image information according to a different protocol, thereby reconfiguring the pipeline (26) to achieve significant flexibility. The software architecture is scalable to produce a plurality of communication pipelines (26), each of which can be configured according to desired protocols. Thus, the system can support a different protocol by either swapping components to reconfigure a single communication pipeline (26), or by simply selecting an alternative among a plurality of differently configured communication pipelines (26) in the scalable architecture. The software architecture is equipped with a network executive component (14) designed to configure one or more communication pipelines (26) for network communication.</p> |
