Clinical Overview Of IMAC Systems

Abstract

The clinical aspects of the development and use of IMAC systems must be examined from the standpoint of both the staff in the department which creates the images (such as radiologists, pathologists, and their professional and technical colleagues) and from the standpoint of both professional and technical staff in departments which use the images, encompassing many of the other departments of the hospital. The need for IMAC pervades all these departments, and presents many common threads in terms of capability requirements. In the final analysis, the patient is the ultimate beneficiary of the results of IMAC, and this benefit is often achieved by the primary care physician, building on the efforts of others who have brought the image and its associated information to him or her in the appropriate context.