Summary
Objective:
This paper shows the use of the emerging Grid technology for gathering underused
resources that are distributed among a corporate network. The work of these resources
is coordinated for facing tasks which are not affordable by the individual usage of
each of them.
Methods:
This paper shows an application for the projection, using Volume Rendering techniques,
of huge medical volumes obtained from CTs and RMIs, adapted to Grid computing.
Results:
As a result the article shows the feasibility of the creation of an application based
up on Grid technology, which solves problems that cannot be addressed by using common
techniques. As an example, the article describes the projection of a huge medical
dataset, which exceeds the resources of most common PCs, carried out by taking profit
of idle CPU cycles from the computers of an organization.
Conclusions:
Grid technology is emerging as a new framework which allows gathering and coordinating
resources distributed among a network (LAN or WAN), for addressing problems which
cannot be solved through the single use of any of these resources. Medical Imaging
is a clear application area for this technology.
Keywords
GRID - Medical Information computing - three-dimensional imaging
