We Built This House; It's Time to Move in: Leveraging Existing DICOM Structure to More Completely Utilize Readily Available Detailed Contrast Administration Information.

Autor: Hirsch JD; University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 S. Greene St, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA, jnjhirsch@comcast.net., Siegel EL, Balasubramanian S, Wang KC
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of digital imaging [J Digit Imaging] 2015 Aug; Vol. 28 (4), pp. 407-11.
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-015-9771-y
Abstrakt: The Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard is the universal format for interoperability in medical imaging. In addition to imaging data, DICOM has evolved to support a wide range of imaging metadata including contrast administration data that is readily available from many modern contrast injectors. Contrast agent, route of administration, start and stop time, volume, flow rate, and duration can be recorded using DICOM attributes [1]. While this information is sparsely and inconsistently recorded in routine clinical practice, it could potentially be of significant diagnostic value. This work will describe parameters recorded by automatic contrast injectors, summarize the DICOM mechanisms available for tracking contrast injection data, and discuss the role of such data in clinical radiology.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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