ABOUT US

The Laboratory for Radiological Informatics (LRI) is part of the Department of Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. The LRI, located on the first floor of the University Library, houses the clinical picture archiving and communication system (PACS) image cache, long-term optical archive, database and web server. The facility is also the site for research in medical image informatics. Equipment includes long-term storage devices with heterogeneous high-capacity media, ATM, Gigabit and high-speed network communication hubs, developmental workstations and 3D rendering engines. More than 12 people work within the lab and they are involved in both clinical and research activities. Research projects include the implementation of a new hierarchical storage scheme, enhancement of a digital teaching file, development of a meta-medical archive connecting PACS at multiple institutions, and image security and compression methods.