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The introduction of imaging methods that produced
digital images began in the ____ with
nuclear medicine followed shortly by computed
tomography (CT) and ultrasound.

In particular, the rapid growth of__ resulted in radiology
departments and practices having to determine how best
to display and store the images.

The earliest CT systems
used __ images taken of the console display as a
way to record the images for viewing.

Manufacturers responded with film recorders that could
expose film to the CT image displayed on a ___; the film could be processed in conventional xray rapid processors and handled like any other
radiographic films

development of ___ represents one of the major enabling factors for PACS

in the early ____, as each manufacturer utilized proprietary encoding for images, it became apparent that it was difficult for medical imaging to be viewed or stored outside of the boundaries of the original acquisition modality, and indeed as a result of this some hospitals were forced into purchasing all equipment from a single manufacturer.

the first major meeting on PACS was held.

Organized by _____, the
meeting was held in Newport Beach, California and
most of the United States, European, and Asian
groups who were working on, or planning, PACS were
in attendance

was an early attempt to standardize
the way medical images were stored and transferred between
devices.

Here’s
what ACR-NEMA 300 could do:

ACR-NEMA 300 STANDARD limitations

• In response to the limitations of ACR-NEMA 300, the ACR-NEMA
Version 2.0 was published in __

This version aimed to enhance the
standard by improving image data transmission capabilities and
expanding the range of supported modalities

Until 1993 there was little adoption
of the ACR-NEMA standard In 1993,
an extensively revised version of the
standard was produced, renamed

A key feature of DICOM that
distinguished it from its
predecessor was the