SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFER OF MEDICAL IMAGES

摘要

The current invention presents a system for the transfer of medical images that conform to a common medical image storage and retrieval protocol between computers that are located across a wide area network. In accordance with one aspect of the invention the system comprises; one or more image storage servers, each image storage server providing one or more medical images that conform to a common image storage and retrieval protocol, each image storage server being an element of a local area network and each image storage server being connectable to a wide area network, a list server for providing a list of one or more medical images available from the image storage servers and contact information for each local area network, the list server being connectable to the wide area network, and one or more client computers being able to request one or more medical images for transfer across the wide area network using the common image storage and retrieval protocol, each client computer being an element of a local area network and each client computer being connectable to a wide area network.