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AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorSiegfried Bocionek
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A medical system architecture with a modality for the acquisition of examination images, with an apparatus allocated to the modality for processing the examination images, an apparatus for the transmission of the examination images that works according to the DICOM method for data exchange between various applications, an apparatus for storing the examination images, and with further devices for the post-processing of the examination images. Cameras are connected to the devices for the processing and post-processing of the examination images. The devices have monitors and are fashioned such that current photographic images or image sequences of the cameras can be mixed in next to the examination images in a separate window on the monitors.
A medical system architecture comprising:
A medical system architecture as claimed in claim I wherein said post-processing device is a first post-processing device having a first viewing monitor and a first camera for producing at least one first still image of an environment of said first post-processing device, and wherein said medical system architecture further comprises a second post-processing device connected to said communication network, said second post-processing device having a second viewing monitor and a second camera for producing at least one second still image of an environment of said second post-processing device, said first post-processing device mixing said at least one second still image into a window at said first viewing monitor and said second post-processing device mixing said at least one first still image into a window at said second monitor, for video conferencing between said first and second post-processing devices.
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