Systems integration for PACS.

A successful PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) implementation requires an eclectic integration of a number of key technologies. Among these are equipment interfaces, communications, storage, and display. Coincident with this, the software architecture must support a distributed system of heterogeneous structures, provide for protocol and format conversions to a unified system standard, be scalable to accommodate expansion, and provide a measure of fault tolerance. In this paper we survey the current state of the UCLA PACS components and architecture.