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Diagnostic Imaging, a "Parallel" Discipline Can Current Technology Provide a Reliable Digital Diagnostic Radiology Department?

Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering Departments of Computerised Tomography and Diagnostic Radiology, Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, Manchester

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Only recently has any detailed criticism been voiced about the practicalities of the introduction of generalised, digital, imaging complexes in diagnostic radiology. Although attendant technological problems are highlighted we argue that the fundamental causes of current difficulties are not in the generation but in the processing, filing and subsequent retrieval for display of digital image records. In the real world, looking at images is a parallel process of some complexity and so it is perhaps untimely to expect versatile handling of vast image data bases by existing computer hardware and software which, by their current nature, perform tasks serially.

Received for publication July 1, 1984. Revision received December 1, 1984.