ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many people have provided valuable assistance during the preparation of this book, in particular, many of my past graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and colleagues, from whom I have learned the most. Chapter 1, Introduction, and Part I, Medical Imaging Principles (Chapters 2–6), have been revised substantially from the original book PACS and Imaging Informatics: Basic Principles and Applications, published, 2004. Part II, PACS Fundamentals (Chapters 7–13), consists of materials based on revised industrial standards and workflow profiles, updated technologies, and current clinical experience of other researchers and ourselves. Part III, PACS Operation (Chapters 14–19), are mostly our group’s personal experience over the past six years in planning, design, implementation, and operating large-scale PAC systems. Part IV, PACS-based and DICOM-based Imaging Informatics (Chapters 20–28), presents systematic overview of current trends in medical imaging informatics research learned from colleagues and other researchers, as well as our own research and development.
Materials retained from the last edition were contributed by K. S. Chuang, Ben Lo, Ricky Taira, Brent Stewart, Paul Cho, Shyh-Liang Andrew Lou, Albert W. K. Wong, Jun Wang, Xiaoming Zhu, Johannes Stahl, Jianguo Zhang, Ewa Pietka, X. Q. Zhou, F.Yu, Fei Cao, Brent Liu, Maria Y.Y. Law, Lawrence Chan, Harold Rutherford, Minglin Li, Michael F. McNitt-Gray, Christopher Carr, Eliot Siegel, Heinz Lemke, Kiyonari ...
