Requirements of functional imaging for future radiological systems

Although functional imaging is relatively new, it is evident that in the future a complete work-up of the brain would include functional imaging as described above. Since the data collected is extremely large and has an impact on archiving systems, we have identified the bare minimum that is required to store in a radiological system for efficient diagnosis and retrieval. According to our analysis, the minimal amount of uncompressed storage space for complete functional imaging is about 350 Mbytes.