Teleradiology: current perspectives

Teleradiology.

Advances in telecommunications and computer software have led to the development of radiology image transfer systems. Radiologists may now report radiographs at a site distant from that of the examination, in some cases almost instantaneously. Computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasonography may also be supervised from afar. Developments over the past few decades are reviewe...

Down Syndrome: Current Status, Challenges and Future Perspectives

Down syndrome (DS) is a birth defect with huge medical and social costs, caused by trisomy of whole or part of chromosome 21. It is the most prevalent genetic disease worldwide and the common genetic cause of intellectual disabilities appearing in about 1 in 400-1500 newborns. Although the syndrome had been described thousands of years before, it was named after John Langdon Down who described ...

Collaborative Teleradiology

The paper introduces a notion of collaborative teleradiology as a novel organisation of information exchange during a remote radiological consultation. A general interaction pattern between medical experts taking part in a collaborative teleradiology session has been defined. This session has been compared to interaction typically performed in WWW centric teleradiology systems. Next technical i...

Veterinary teleradiology.

Veterinary teleradiology was first commercially introduced in the early 1990s with limited success, mostly influenced by slow Internet speeds and large file sizes. Currently the practice of teleradiology in veterinary medicine is widespread due to the availability of broadband Internet connections, image compression, and economically priced PACS and DICOM software. This review article will disc...

erdosteine therapy for renal failure: current perspectives