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DICOM Grid Interface Service for Clinical and Research PACS: A Globus Toolkit Web Service for Medical Data Grids S.G. Erberichab, M. Bhandekarb, M.D. Nelsonb, A. Chervenakc, C. Kesselmanc aDepartment of Radiology, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, Univ. of Southern California bDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, Univ. of Southern California cGrid Computing Division, Information Science Institute, Univ. of Southern California Abstract. Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) have become the standard for digital image warehousing within hospitals and practice networks. However PACS are monolithic systems not intended to communicate in a flexible and dynamic way to affiliated hospitals or to support ad-hoc tele-radiology between outside physicians or radiologists. Enterprise PACS provides only limited and mostly vendor restricted access to outside affiliates. Here we present an extension to traditional PACS which bridges between institutional PACS and dynamic medical data Grids. A data Grid is a collection of IT services which provide access control, distributed data management, and publication and discovery methodologies. We describe how existing data Grid technology can be used toward a medical data Grid by adding a DICOM Grid Interface service. The service implements an Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA) standard service based on the Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF) implementation of the Globus Toolkit release 4 – a OGSA compliant open-source Grid middleware. The OGSA compliance preserves interoperability among Grid technology providers and is therefore of special importance in medical data Grids federating various IT infrastructures. Keywords: DICOM, PACS, Grid PACS, Globus Toolkit 4, OGSA, Data Grid 1. Introduction Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) have become the standard for digital image warehousing within hospital and practice networks. However PACS are monolithic sy