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Medical Imaging
An increasing number of hospitals, laboratories, doctors, and med-
ical research centers are relying on digital imaging to help speed
diagnosis, save money, improve treatment quality, and accelerate
medical training. Images from diagnostic tools such as CAT scan-
ners, MRI, echocardiograms, and X-rays are increasingly being
stored digitally and used either locally or in remote locations.
A single 30-second echocardiogram, for instance, can take up to
10GB of disk or tape storage. Forty radiology rooms at a major
Chicago medical center generate over two terabytes of images each
year. As the use of 3-D images, animation, and digital video
increases, the need for high capacity, high speed data backup will
grow with it. Some of the key requirements in medical imaging
backup include long media life, cost-effective performance, rapid
data transfer and ease of media interchange. The DLTtape system
is the ideal choice for medical imaging applications. DLTtape
media offers a 30-year shelf life and is compatible across multiple
generations of DLTtape systems. DLTtape systems also provide the
industry's highest data transfer rates in the mid-range market. This
enables doctors to access archived records faster and reduce patient
wait time. DLTtape technology makes near on-line storage a reality
for medical imaging applications.
Data Acquisition
The use of DLTtape technology at Cornell University, mentioned
earlier in this chapter, is just one example of a data acquisition
application. These types of applications vary greatly, but share sev-
eral common traits, including the need for absolute reliability, fast
throughput rates, high capacity (you don't want to have to change
tapes in the middle of that volcanic eruption!), scalability, and
media interchange.
10.8 VERTICAL MARKET APPLICATIONS