From: ree88132@zach.fit.edu (Keith Ledig)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.medicine,sci.med,sci.med.physics
Subject: PC-Tumor  BBS  Goes On-line       (407) 234-1287
Date: 12 Dec 92 04:03:20 GMT
Followup-To: talk.politics.medicine
Organization: Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne USA


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         PC-Tumor  BBS  Goes On-line       (407) 234-1287

     A new type of medical computer bulletin board system (BBS), the first
of its type, called "PC-Tumor" has officially gone on-line.

Its phone number is:            (407) 234-1287

     This BBS has four purposes.

          1) DATA BASE, or library, for digital, diagnostic quality,
             microscopic tumor images (or ANY type of tumor image).

          2) CONSULTATION BASE, for uploading and downloading images
             between consultants. The "sender" uploads the image,
             and the receiver or "consultant" downloads the image and
             renders an opinion.

          3) FORUM, or message base, for information for those interested
             in digitizing tumor images, and saving them to their home
             computers, or transmitting these images to other computers.

          4) WORKSHOP, dedicated to improving the quality of diagnostic
             digital tumor images.


     What does all this mean?

          Well, if you have a microscope or radiologic data on a monitor,
     a video camera, a TV-monitor, an inexpensive home computer such as
     an IBM, Mac, or Amiga, a modem, and have wondered how to capture, or
     "digitize" and save your high quality tumor images to your computer,
     or transmit these images to other computers, for immediate consults,
     avoiding the hassle of sending glass slides or x-rays via US-mail,
     UPS, Federal Express, or other time consuming routes,---then PC-Tumor
     BBS is the place for learning how to do these things, as well as the
     place you send them to for your consultant to download and view them,
     and comparing the quality of your images with those of the people
     who have been doing these kinds of things for years, and have now,
     with rapidly improving, inexpensive technologies, approached
     "diagnostic quality" in image characteristics, using inexpensive
     home computers and freely available software.

          Call PC-Tumor:    (407) 234-1287
          It's fun.
          It's free.
          Download our images and tell us how you like them.

          The data base is growing every day.  The quality of images is so
     good that you may think you're peeking into the microscope itself,
     or looking right into the viewbox. It is state-of-the-art, and driven
     by a US Robotics Dual Standard 16.8K baud modem "locked in" at
     57,600 baud, and has gotten certified upload and download transfer
     rates of over 5000 cps, which means that an average jpegged 30K image
     file can be transferred in just a few seconds using zmodem.

          Don't understand this jibberish (jpeg? cps? Dual Standard?)?
          Call PC-Tumor BBS at (407) 234-1287, 24 hours a day, seven days a
          week, with any type of modem, and get real smart FAST!

                                    Sysop:           John Minarcik, MD
                                    Sysop:           Curtis Brotherton

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Keith Ledig   ree88132@zach.fit.edu         [Tech-Forum BBS 407-722-4400]