Siemens Somatom Plus • Siemens Magnetom Impact • Siemens Magnetom SP • Siemens Magnetom Vision • Philips Gyroscan S5 • ? what else ?
SPI is a standard based on the old ACR/NEMA 1 standard, devised I gather by Siemens and Philips, for use in a PACS environment. Who currently maintains it and whether or not Sienet PACS systems are based on it, I am not certain. Many machines in the workplace use it in some shape or form, or can export files in SPI format. I gather it has been around since 1987 or so, but I do not yet have access to the reference documents, nor permission to disclose their contents, so much of the following is guess work or hearsay from Usenet. Like the ACR/NEMA standard, SPI is designed to define interconnections between pieces of equipment from the physical level through to the application level. Where appropriate it utilized relevant parts of ACR/NEMA. Unlike ACR/NEMA, I gather that SPI is aware of the concept of networks, objects containing information, the need to uniquely identify instances of objects, and defines an offline file format.
