Review and interpretation of MR imaging studies with PACS: creating uniform series descriptors for radiologists and referring physicians.

Overview

OBJECTIVE: We sought to identify a limited set of standardized descriptors for various MR image series on a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) and to apply these descriptors to both existing and newly acquired MR images. CONCLUSION: Of the 47,028 MR image series in our PACS, approximately 2500 had been assigned unique descriptors, and nearly 82% of the descriptors had a frequency of appearance of less than 5%. We reduced the number of descriptors to 146 without loss of essential information. Use of standardized descriptors may facilitate identification of various MR image series.