Trans European Network for Positron Emission Tomography
This project is to be seen as a
breakthrough to cover the needs of the market concerning the provision
of integrated tele-consultation and computer supported cooperative
work services between Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Centres throughout
Europe. Example PET- and CT-Images which can be transferred
with TENPET:
Clicking on one of the images opens an enlarged view.
TENPETnetworks will be set up and validated in
terms of health care and cost improvements, at both national (throughout
Spain) and European (Germany, France, Spain) levels. It is expected
that TENPET will improve quality of patient care and patient management.
The approach of integrating advanced medical imaging technology and
health telematics network applications into a single, easy-to-operate
medical telematics platform, will be supportive for PET centres, according
to operational costs reduction and secure transmission of medical
data via a variety of telecommunications channels. Furthermore it
will allow the cooperation between professionals in PET centres and
peripheral hospitals and foster the development of the field. A hidden
benefit will be also the transfer of knowledge in the PET community.
Rapidly, as well as increasingly on long term, TENPET will bring PET
Centres throughout Europe closer together, extravagating linguistical
and cultural barriers.
Even if TENPET is primarily specialized in the avenue of Positron
Emission Tomography, it will have general impact on the area of health
telematics. Moreover TENPET will also set focus on the usage of new
communication technologies and protocols like Virtual Private Networks
(VPN) and Jabber
protocol.
The TENPET service will be based on the successful EU funded research
TeleInViVo
(Telematics Application Program, 2001 IST Grand Prize Winner)
and the commercial successor of it, the CE certified software product
›TeleConsult‹. The platform is supplied by MedCom,
runs on PCs with Windows 2000/XP and incorporates advanced techniques
for image visualization, analysis and fusion. In addtion, the Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) is offering expertise on telecommunication
issues and several research institutions throughout Europe are serving
as Centres of Excellence for the project.
