Using Better Storage Technologies To Elevate The Art Of Diagnostic Radiology

Twice the capacity at one half the price. Those kinds of numbers fundamentally change how diagnostic radiology centers serve their patients and improve patient care while lowering their overall costs to deliver their services. To recognize these benefits, some radiology centers are starting to use new, lower cost storage systems to store the increasing number of larger size, higher resolution images that the latest Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems produce.

Ongoing improvements in MRI imaging technologies continue to provide radiologists with ever more detailed images of their patients. Images produced by the newest MRIs reveal nuances in shadow that better allow radiologists to determine precisely where a problem resides and better establish what the nature of the patient's problem is.

The hidden downside associated with using higher resolution images is that it requires more storage to house the larger image files that MRIs produce. Each two-dimensional cross-section or slice of tissue generated by an MRI produces an image that can range from hundreds of kilobytes (KBs) to megabytes (MBs) in size.