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Emergence of teleradiology, PACS, and other radiology IT solutions in Acta Radiologica
Jarmo Reponen1,2, Jaakko Niinimäki1,3
1Research Unit of Medical Imaging, Physics and Technology, 6370University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
Abstract:
For this historical review, we searched a database containing all the articles published in Acta Radiologica during its 100-year history to find those on the use of information technology (IT) in radiology. After reading the full texts, we selected the presented articles according to major radiology IT domains such as teleradiology, picture archiving and communication systems, image processing, image analysis, and computer-aided diagnostics in order to describe the development as it appeared in the journal. Publications generally follow IT megatrends, but because the contents of Acta Radiologica are mainly clinically oriented, some technology achievements appear later than they do in journals discussing mainly imaging informatics topics.
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