The Department of Dental Radiology of Matsumoto Dental College is presently in the process of a new type of compact image archiving/processing system. The system consists of a personal computer, an image scanner with transparent unit for film scanning, an off-line CT image archiving through a floppy disk reader, a precision image display with full-color, a video printer and a high density 3.5 inch magneto-optical disk system. The system supports various image processing abilities which including frequency domain analysis and color processing. Our emphasis is on quality over speed and operation has also been tested and approved by dental radiologists and by the commercial availability of a system capable of an acceptable performance
