Digital radiology techniques require high 

 speed networks: a single X-ray film rep- 

 resented by a 2K-by-2K-by-10 bit gray 

 scale generates a 4 megabyte image 

 file. 



BRHR: Medical Informatics Grants and Other 

 Training 



NLM competed the award of 10 Medical Informatics 

 Training Grant programs at academic medical centers. 

 The program supports cross-disciplinary training of 

 health professionals in the use of advanced computing 

 technologies. 



NCRR conducted a pilot project to introduce scientific 

 computing methods to high school science teachers and 

 their students. 



DCRT and NCRR sponsored "hands on" training of 

 biomedical researchers in the use of new computational 

 biology tools at NSF Supercomputer Centers and on the 

 NIH campus in Bethesda. 



BRHR: Basic Research Through Long Distance 

 Microscopy 



In the first demonstration of its kind, scientists at a work- 

 station in Chicago viewed high-resolution images of 

 nerve cells in a high-voltage electron microscope located 

 1,700 miles away at the San Diego Microscopy and 

 Imaging Resource (SDMIR), which is supported by 

 NCRR. Further details are given on pages 123-125 in 

 the Case Studies section. 



FY 1994 Milestones 



NIH will accelerate the pace of molecular and genetic 

 discovery by enabling the solution of currently intractable 

 problems in molecular structure prediction, drug design, 

 and human genome database analysis. 



The program will apply and evaluate new computer 

 architectures to key problems of human health and dis- 

 ease, in a manner that gives early feedback to computer 

 designers on the strengths and limitations of their sys- 

 tems for medical applications. The HPCC Program will 

 rapidly build an electronic community among life science 

 researchers by connecting academic medical centers to 

 the Internet. It will create prototype medical imaging 

 applications that use the Internet and provide a model 

 for distance-independent medical consultation. It will 

 double the pool of computationally trained investigators 

 in biomedicine. 



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