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Apr 1, 2000
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Remote consult in radiotherapy: HEP technologies in health Physics!
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Maurizio Ferraris,
Paolo Frixione,
Sandro Squarcia
Dipartimento di Fisica
Speaker:
Sandro Squarcia
NORMA (Network Oriented Radiological and Medical Archive) is an original project to
select the best Treatment Planning in radiotherapy. It allows physicians and health physicists,
working in different places, to discuss on interesting clinical cases visualizing the same
diagnostic images at the same time and highlighting zones of interest (tumors and organs at risk).
NORMA has a client/server architecture in order to be platform independent. Applying
World Wide Web technologies, it can be easily used by people with no specific informatic knowledge
and it provides a verbose help to guide the user through the right steps of execution. The client
side is an applet while the server side is a Java application. In order to optimize execution the
project also includes a proprietary protocol, lying over TCP/IP suite, that organizes data
exchanges and control messages.
Diagnostic images are retrieved from a relational database or from a standard DICOM
(Digital Images and Communications in Medicine) PACS through the DICOM-WWW gateway allowing
connection of the usual Web browsers used for the NORMA system to DICOM application using the HTTP
protocol. Browser requests are sent to the gateway from the Web server through CGI (Common Gateway
Interface). DICOM software translates the requests in DICOM messages and organizes the
communication with the remote DICOM Application.
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