PACS man: questioning nuclear medicine and PET integration.

At its conception the principal requirements of a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) were a robust server that could archive and distribute computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance and CR/DR images within a departmental or enterprise-wide environment and workstations with the necessary tools to view these images. The problems faced by PACS were the same as those faced by all IT systems – the problems of archiving and communication.