of the generation and transfer of the preview images 24 can preferably ensue with the aid of progressively coded image compression and image transfer methods such as jpeg2000 although it is known to store low res data individually besides high res data the present invention includes using a storage format such as jpeg2000 which incorporates low res data inside the high res data multiresolution encoding the pacs 20 offers the possibility to simultaneously forward via a communications apparatus the data of a running image transfer 40 from the image acquisition apparatus 12 to an image processing workstation 30 and to link image processing descriptions presentation states 42 generated by the image processing workstation 30 with the simultaneously running image transfer 24 and to store them together in an image storage 22 with the high resolution image exposures 24 u2032 that are available later the image processing workstation 30 offers the possibility to show preview images from the image data 40 of a simultaneously occurring image transfer from the image acquisition apparatus modality 12 to implement image processing operations with these preview images 40 and to resave the description of the implemented image processing operations as presentation states 42 for pacs even though the image acquisition and image transfer are simultaneously still occurring a faster pre processing of the images by distributed finding workstations 30 is possible with the application of the method the image processing tools and the capability of the generation of presentation states 42 must be provided at.