I&#x27;m shocked and also confused in reading this.<p>Why? Because the standards are there!<p>The ACR&#x2F;NEMA standard dates back to 1985(!) and is nowadays known as DICOM. Here in Germany&#x2F;Europe, the medical imaging systems as well as the archive systems (PACS) are designed to follow that standard. DICOM covers everything, from the exact flavour of lossless(!) image compression, to the metadata structure which covers fiels more than you ever need to describe the patient, up to the archiving of data.
There are even Free Software &#x2F; Open Source clients which do a great job in visualizing those datasets (OsiriX is a well known example).<p>I thought that this is an international standard. How can any hospital afford to buy crap medical devices that don&#x27;t care about such an important 30-year old standard?<p>Did I get something wrong about DICOM?