Integrated telemedicine workstation for intercontinental grand rounds

Charles E. Willis; Robert G. Leckie; Linda Brink; Fred Goeringer

doi:10.1117/12.207630

27 April 1995 Integrated telemedicine workstation for intercontinental grand rounds

Charles E. Willis, Robert G. Leckie, Linda Brink, Fred Goeringer

Proceedings Volume 2431, Medical Imaging 1995: Image Display; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.207630
Event: Medical Imaging 1995, 1995, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The Telemedicine Spacebridge to Moscow was a series of intercontinental sessions sponsored jointly by NASA and the Moscow Academy of Medicine. To improve the quality of medical images presented, the MDIS Project developed a workstation for acquisition, storage, and interactive display of radiology and pathology images. The workstation was based on a Macintosh IIfx platform with a laser digitizer for radiographs and video capture capability for microscope images. Images were transmitted via the Russian Lyoutch Satellite which had only a single video channel available and no high speed data channels. Two workstations were configured -- one for use at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. and the other for use at the Hospital of the Interior in Moscow, Russia. The two workstations were used may times during 16 sessions. As clinicians used the systems, we modified the original configuration to improve interactive use. This project demonstrated that numerous acquisition and output devices could be brought together in a single interactive workstation. The video images were satisfactory for remote consultation in a grand rounds format.

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Charles E. Willis, Robert G. Leckie, Linda Brink, and Fred Goeringer "Integrated telemedicine workstation for intercontinental grand rounds", Proc. SPIE 2431, Medical Imaging 1995: Image Display, (27 April 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.207630

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