Anonymous

Suffolk

Systems Analyst

What sort of medical X-ray image would be suitable for transmission overseas for inspection by a radiologist in another time zone?

This might be a possible technique for mass screening, but I wouldn't have thought it was very practical for most hospital work. As the X-ray images most of us are familiar with tend to be life-size and (presumably) fairly high resolution analogue negatives, digitising them is likely to produce a lot of data.

I don't know what the latest medical X-ray procedures are, and Google does not help very much for once, but it doesn't look to me like we yet have the techniques for transporting significant amounts of X-ray data around the NHS, let alone the world.

I don't think I'm going to worry too much about this one...