Research Article
Performance Evaluation of an Enhanced Uplink 3.5G System for Mobile Healthcare Applications
Table 5
Typical medical data in medical information management service.
| | Digital device | Signal or image resolution | Data rate required | | Temporal/spatial (no. of samples per second) | Contrast/resolution (bits per sample) |
| | Demographic data | — | — | 100 KB (text size) | | Laboratory and clinical data, medical history | — | — | 1 MB (text size) | | Digital audio stethoscope (recorded heart sounds) | 10000 | 12 | 120 kbps | | Ultrasound, cardiology, radiology (DICOM) | | 8 | 256 KB (image size) | | Magnetic resonance image (DICOM) | | 12 | 384 KB (image size) | | Scanned x-ray (DICOM) | | 12 | 1.8 MB (image size) | | Digital radiography (DICOM) | | 12 | 6 MB (image size) | | Mammogram (DICOM) | | 12 | 24 MB (image size) | | Recording of endoscopic video | — | — | 384 kbps Mb/s (speed) |
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