Title: DICOM medical image transmission using Bluetooth through ARM based processor for telemedicine applications

Authors: T. Kesavamurthy, S. Subha Rani

Addresses: ECE Department, PSG College of Technology Peelamedu, Coimbatore-04, TN, India. ' ECE Department, PSG College of Technology Peelamedu, Coimbatore-04, TN, India

Abstract: One of the emerging issues in medical-health is how best the mobile communications technologies that are globally available are exploited. The challenge is to produce a system to transmit a patient|s biomedical images directly to doctor|s personal digital assistants (PDAs) for monitoring and diagnosis purposes within hospital premises. The proposed work focuses on the design of a wireless telemedicine embedded system which transmits the computed tomography (CT) DICOM medical images archived in picture archiving and communication system (PACS) server to doctor|s PDAs via Bluetooth communication. The embedded system used in this project is an ARM based processor (AT91SAM9263), which is a 32 bit advanced embedded processor. The design and implementation of an embedded wireless communication platform using Bluetooth serial communication protocol is proposed and problems and limitations are investigated.

Keywords: computed tomography; digital imaging; mobile communications; DICOM; telemedicine; ARM; Bluetooth; medical imaging; medical image transmission; embedded systems; picture archiving; biomedical images; personal digital assistants; PDAs; health monitoring; medical diagnosis; e-healthcare; electronic healthcare.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMEI.2010.029804

International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2010 Vol.2 No.1, pp.52 - 71

Published online: 02 Dec 2009 *

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