[Digital x-ray system (data collection, processing, storage and transmission of diagnostic information)]

The paper deals with the system that allows the conventional procedures for obtaining diagnostic X-ray images to be integrated with direct digital ones. It presents patterns of introducing digital roentgenography into practical medicine and describes the system how diagnostic X-ray images are obtained, processed, stored, and transmitted, which consists of automatic working places for X-ray laboratory assistant and an X-ray physician. The requirements for long-term diagnostic archives data base and for the software support of input of the data accompanying each X-ray film are discussed in the paper. The information presented reflects the authors' experience in using the system in a multidisciplinary hospital having an unselected stream of patients (n = 6,000).