The impact of teleradiology in clinical practice--a Malaysian perspective.

B. J. Abdullah; K. H. Ng; R. Pathmanathan

The impact of teleradiology in clinical practice--a Malaysian perspective.

B. J. Abdullah, K. H. Ng, R. Pathmanathan

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Abstract

Teleradiology is the most mature and rapidly evolving specialty in telemedicine. The use of teleradiology has grown tremendously during the past few years. This article describes the role of teleradiology in health care along with a brief history of its development in tandem with advances in telecommunications and computer technologies. Teleradiology standards, image acquisition, data compression, transmission and image interpretation are summarised. The impact of teleradiology in the practice of radiology, traces the evolution of the modality especially in the Malaysian perspective and its current and future role are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	169-174
Number of pages	6
Journal	Medical Journal of Malaysia
Volume	54
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - Jun 1999
Externally published	Yes

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