21 C.F.R. § 892.2050 Picture archiving and communications system.
Title 21 - Food and Drugs
(a) Identification. A picture archiving and communications system is a device that provides one or more capabilities relating to the acceptance, transfer, display, storage, and digital processing of medical images. Its hardware components may include workstations, digitizers, communications devices, computers, video monitors, magnetic, optical disk, or other digital data storage devices, and hardcopy devices. The software components may provide functions for performing operations related to image manipulation, enhancement, compression or quantification. (b) Classification. Class II (special controls; voluntary standards—Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Std., Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) Std., Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Test Pattern). [63 FR 23387, Apr. 29, 1998]
Title 21: Food and Drugs
PART 892—RADIOLOGY DEVICES
Subpart B—Diagnostic Devices
§ 892.2050 Picture archiving and communications system.
