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[Digital echocardiography laboratory].

Paolo Trambaiolo·Alfredo Posteraro·Alessandro Salustri·Elisabetta Amici·Maurizio Piaggio·Cesare Decanini·Giancarlo Gambelli
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The implementation of a digital echocardiography laboratory exists today using the DICOM (Digital Imaging Communication in Medicine) standard to acquire, store and transfer echocardiographic digital images. The components of a laboratory include: 1) digital echocardiography machines with DICOM output, 2) a switched high-speed local area network, 3) a DICOM server with abundant local storage, and 4) a software to manage image and measurement information. The aim of this article was to describe the critical components of a digital echocardiography laboratory, discuss strategies for implementation, and describe some of the pitfalls that we encountered in our own implementation of the digital third level echocardiography laboratory.

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Paolo Trambaiolo, Alfredo Posteraro, Alessandro Salustri, Elisabetta Amici, Maurizio Piaggio, Cesare Decanini, Giancarlo Gambelli. 2004. [Digital echocardiography laboratory].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15490684/

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