Review and interpretation of MR imaging studies with PACS: creating uniform series descriptors for radiologists and referring physicians. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • OBJECTIVE: We sought to identify a limited set of standardized descriptors for various MR image series on a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) and to apply these descriptors to both existing and newly acquired MR images. CONCLUSION: Of the 47,028 MR image series in our PACS, approximately 2500 had been assigned unique descriptors, and nearly 82% of the descriptors had a frequency of appearance of less than 5%. We reduced the number of descriptors to 146 without loss of essential information. Use of standardized descriptors may facilitate identification of various MR image series.

publication date

  • September 1, 2002

Research

keywords

  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Physicians
  • Radiology Information Systems
  • Referral and Consultation
  • Subject Headings

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0036721303

PubMed ID

  • 12185022

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 179

issue

  • 3