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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1996
Aiman Albert Abdel-Malek, Schenectady, NY (US);
Kathryn Eike Dudding, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Bruce Gordon Barnett, Troy, NY (US);
Charles Andrew Tompkins, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Mohsen Gharabaghloo, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A satellite communication system for sending high resolution medically related images from a remote location to a central location for diagnostics, consisting of at least one remote transmitting and receiving station and a central diagnostic station adapted to provide an image based on a standard digital format such as Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM), and the Extended Transmission Control Protocol to transmit medically related images with a transmission efficiency of at least 90 percent to facilitate feed back while the patient remains at the remote transmitting and receiving station.