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INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS. TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION. DATA RECONSTRUCTION--COMPUTER. COMPUTER: A MACHINE FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS. .
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MODERN COMPUTER:HIGH SPEED ELECTRONIC MACHINE THAT ACCEPTS INFORMATION IN THE FORM OF DATA AND INSTRUCTIONSTHROUGH SOME INPUT DEVICE AND PROCESSES THAT INFORMATION WITH ARITHMETIC AND LOGIC OPERATIONS STORED IN ITS MEMORY
INPUT PROCESSING OUTPUT
COMPUTER SYSTEMS HARDWARE SOFTWARE PEOPLE
HARDWARE SCHEME SECONDARY STORAGE: HARD DRIVE MOD CD MAGNETIC TAPE INPUT DEVICES: KEYBOARD MOUSE TOUCH SCREEN TRACK BALL ARRAY PROCESSOR OUTPUT DEVICES: VIDEO MONITOR PRINTER MEMORY COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES
INPUT DEVICES • KEYBOARD • MOUSE • TOUCH SCREEN • TRACK BALL
OUTPUT DEVICES • VIDEO MONITOR (CRT) • PRINTERS
TOUCH SCREEN CRT TRACKBALL KEYBOARD
STORAGE DEVICES • HARD DRIVE – SCANNER PATIENT DIRECTORY BACK UP - ARCHIVING • CD • MOD • MAGNETIC TAPE
MORE DATA IS STORED IF: IT’S COMPRESSED
MEMORY • ROM • RAM
ROM –READ ONLY MEMORY NONVOLATILE – AFTER THE COMPUTER IS TURNED OFF ITS CONTENT IS STILL INTACT
RAM RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY VOLATILE – AFTER THE COMPUTER IS TURNED OFF ITS CONTENT IS LOST
SOFTWARE • SYSTEM SOFTWARE • APPLICATION SOFTWARE
SYSTEM SOFTWARE (OPERATING SYSTEM) • WINDOWS • MAC OS • UNIX • LINUX
COMPUTERS CLASSIFICATION • SUPERCOMPUTERS • MAINFRAME • MINI – COMPUTERS (COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY) • MICRO-COMPUTERS (PERSONAL)
DATA PROCESSING: • SERIAL • MULTITASKING • MULTIPROCESSING
DATA FLOW MEMORY PROCESSOR BUS
MULTIPROCESSING • MULTIPLE PROCESSORS THE MORE PROCESSOR THE QUICKER (SHORTER) THE RECONSTRUCTION OF DATA
COMMUNICATION DEVICES • MODEM • NIC
PACS – PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM • IT’S A COMPUTER NETWORK • IT’S LINKED TO HOSPITAL INFO SYSTEM (HIS) AND RADIOLOGY INFO SYSTEM (RIS)
COMPONENTS OF FULL SERVICE PACS • IMAGE AQUSITION • IMAGE DISPLAY AND INTERPRETATION • IMAGE STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL • COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
SERVER In information technology, a server is a computer system that provides services to other computer systems—called clients—over a computer network
PACS ARCHIVING • An archive is a collection of computer files that have been packaged together for backup, to transport to some other location, for saving away from the computer so that more hard disk storage can be made available, or for some other purpose. An archive can include a simple list of files or files organized under a directory or catalog structure (depending on how a particular program supports archiving).
COMPRESSION FOR ARCHIVING • LOSSLESS • LOOSY
Lossless data compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data. It reduces the file size of an image but results in exactly the same data after decoding.
lossy data compression, which does not allow the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data. It modifies the image such that the original pixel values cannot be reconstructed anymore, although the decoded image might look very similar or even identical when compared to it’s original