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Mon Nov 18 18:19:33 UTC 2002

Unnamed Administration sources reported that Stephen Sprunk said:
> 
> 
> BW, of course, depends on how fast you want the transfers to go.  The film files
> are in the hundreds of MB range, and providers are upgrading from FT1 FR to FT3
> ATM at major sites.

The answer is "not wait at all"...

See, over the last 20 years, radiologists went from being the
butt of MD jokes to being high demand subspecialists. They can
look at a view and charge {say} $100 for a glance.

If they can do say 5/minute, great. Ten, better. But in any case,
no way will [s]he cool heels waiting for an image to paint.

You want a buffer locally of the next n just to be sure.
They might send, oh, 6 scans; he looks at the first and says
"Forget the rest, this guy's got {Mumble}, call the surgeon."
(Or "Call the morgue, this guy will be there shortly..")

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