Patent ID: 6954802

Claim:
A method for enabling a proprietary or standardized medical system to utilize new storage technology, the medical system having a medical scanner that scans a patient and creates medical image data and a computer workstation coupled to the medical scanner for analyzing the medical image data, the workstation utilizing at least one of standardized and proprietary storage technologies, the method comprising: attaching a peripheral-type removable medium recording station to the medical system, the recording station having a first storage device capable of initially storing medical image data received from the medical system on a nonremovable storage medium and a second storage device capable of storing medical image data on a first removable storage medium; receiving at the recording station, medical image data transmitted in a first format from the computer workstation; storing the medical image data on the nonremovable storage medium; converting the medical image data to a second format; and storing the converted data on the first removable storage medium, wherein the first format and the nonremovable storage medium are compatible with the technologies implemented by the medical system, and at least one of the second format and the first removable storage medium reflects new storage technology.