Fwd: New Telemammography project over CA*net 3 and Internet 2

[Gene Hastings <hastings@info-ren.org>]

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>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:15:46 -0500 (EST)
>From: CAnet-3-NEWS@canarie.ca
>Subject: New Telemammography project over CA*net 3 and Internet 2
>
>For more information on this item please visit the CANARIE CA*net 3 Optical
>Internet program web site at http://www.canet3.net/news/news.html
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>
>[This is a very exciting health project between Sunnybrook Hospital,
>University of Pennsylvania and several other institutes.  A single mammogram
>file transmission can easily consume 33 Mbps of bandwidth.  It is typical of
>one of many new applications that are dramatically driving up the bandwidth
>consumption on our research networks.  Due to the high bandwidth
>requirements for this application and the resultant expensive local loop
>costs Sunnybrook is exploring the purchase of dark fiber to links it servers
>directly with the UoT GigaPOP.
>
>   - BSA]
>
>Dr Mawdsley writes...
>
>We are developing techniques to transfer and store very large images over
>the Next Generation Internet. Sunnybrook and Women's College Health
>Sciences Centre is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, and
>Dr Martin Yaffe, the PI of the  project is a professor in the department
>of Medical Biophysics and also in the faculty of Medicine.  We are
>currently accessing the CANET3 Gigapop through our  ÏUniversity of
>TorontoÓ server.
>
>One of our more significant projects is one with the American College of
>Radiology evaluating Digital
>Mammography, where we are providing them with digital mammograms ( and
>providing Quality Control services for the entire project (20 sites) out
>of Toronto, and hope to have the entire interaction internet based.
>A  very low level over view of the Digital Mammography archive project
>is at:
>
><http://NSCP01.PHYSICS.UPENN.EDU/ndma/cdrom/>
>
>The official web-site is <http://NSCP01.PHYSICS.UPENN.EDU/ndma>
>
>
>Just for info, our research group hosted a major international
>conference on Digital Mammography, which will have a significant impact
>on future medical imaging, and network implications.
><http://www.sunnybrook.utoronto.ca/~iwdm2000/>
>
>This is the public relations summary from the US NLM Ò NGI web site
>announcing the projects.
>
><http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/ngisumphase2.html>
>
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>Bill St. Arnaud
>Senior Director Network Projects
>CANARIE
>bill.st.arnaud@canarie.ca
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