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DICOM

• Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

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History
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The DICOM Standard

1. networked environment.
2. off-line media environment
3. It specifies how devices claiming conformance to
   the Standard react to commands and data being
   exchanged
4. . not only for images and graphics but also
5. . for waveforms, reports, printing, etc
6. It is a technique for uniquely identifying any
   Information Object

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Who needs DICOM?
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DICOM can be in
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Field Of Application

• The DICOM Standard facilitates interoperability
  of medical imaging equipment by specifying
• For network communications
• The syntax and semantics
• For media communication

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How does DICOM work?
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DICOM Patient Identification Attributes
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Attribute Structure
128 bytes
4 bytes (four characters DICM)
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DICOM VIEWER
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Dicom FILE

• Alias Name AMNESIX Modality CT
  16/64File Size 157 MBDescription CTA abdomen
  and lower extremities runoff of a patient with an
  illiac an eurysme pre and post stent placement
  recorded on a 16 detector CT (pre) and a 64
  detector CT (post)

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Future Of Dicom

• The DICOM standard is never more than 2 months
  old
• new CT objects and also 3-D objects
• In general, acquisition is moving to
  multi-dimensional, 3-D or more, and DICOM is
  following that trend

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Benefit  Once the studies are sent to PACS,
physicians are able to digitally view the studies
anywhere on the hospital network.  This increases
efficiency and eliminates the use of film and
videotape.
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Conclusion

• DICOM is not only an image file format. Its is
  primarily a networking protocol.
• Its the boss of the digital medical
  applications for data and images in medical
  activities.
• DICOM has several parts which describes the
  procedures of the digital object to analyze.
• DICOM uses several types of formats of
  compression for both images and text.
• PACS (hardware and software) and DICOM are closed
  related.

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