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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Xiaofeng Xu, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Glenn Robert Kulpinski, Tinley Park, IL (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
A PACS including a source of medical data, such as a CT unit ( ), a workstation ( ) capable of creating an image of the data, and a local area network ( ). A server ( ) stores compressed medical data in a RAID ( ) and also in a magneto-optical unit ( ) and a tape DLT unit ( ). The tape unit ( ) has a transfer rate equal to or greater than the transfer rate of the RAID.