DICOM
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is the standard for the communication and management of medical imaging information and related data.DICOM is most commonly used for storing and transmitting medical images enabling the integration of medical imaging devices such as scanners, servers, workstations, printers, network hardware, and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) from multiple manufacturers. It has been widely adopted by hospitals and is making inroads into smaller applications like dentists' and doctors' offices.
Duration: 20-25hrs
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Seminar Objectives
- What is DICOM from a high Level
- Core elements
- Negotiation Process and Associations
- SCU/SCP Roles
- Transfer and Abstract Syntaxes
- SOP Classes
- Information Object Definitions (IOD)
- Value Representation (VR)
- Unique Identifiers (UID)
- Data Types, private tags
- Service Classes
- Verfication
- Storage and Storage Commitment
- Modality Worklist and Performed Procedure Step
- Query/Retrieve
- Media Storage
- Other Services
- Image Quality and Integrity
- Structured Reporting
- Practical Exercise
- Commonly used DICOM tools and toolkits
- DICOM Conformance Claims
- Several Examples of Vendor Conformance Claims
- Relationship with the IHE Radiology specification