Patent ID: 8842966

Claim:
An imaging modality configured to record data onto removable storage media, comprising: an image receiving interface configured to receive imaging data from an imaging sensor; a central processing unit configured to process the imaging data to generate a study in a standard medical imaging format, and to transmit the study in the standard medical imaging format; a removable media interface operatively connected to the central processing unit and configured to receive the study from the central processing unit, wherein the removable media interface is directly connected to the central processing unit of the imaging modality such that the central processing unit of the imaging modality controls the removable media interface to automatically start a storage operation to record the study generated by the central processing unit onto the removable storage media, and wherein the central processing unit transmits the study to the removable media interface using a localhost address and without the use of a physical network between the imaging modality and the removable media interface.