DICOM® is the international standard to transmit, store, retrieve, print, process, and display medical imaging information

DICOM ® — Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine — is the international standard for medical images and related information. It defines the formats for medical images that can be exchanged with the data and quality necessary for clinical use.

DICOM ® is the registered trademark of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) for its Standards publications relating to digital communications of medical information.

DICOM ® is a Standard for communication of medical imaging information. Selected highlights of its history are shown below: 1980

DICOM is used in virtually all hospitals worldwide. It ensures the interoperability of systems used to: Produce, Store, Display, Send, Query; Process, Retrieve, Print... medical images and derived structured documents, as well as to manage the related workflow. Who needs DICOM? Physicians get better access to images and reports DICOM is in place.

DICOM is updated and republished several times per year. The links on this page include "current" in the filepath and will always resolve to the current edition. KEY: Each Part is published in multiple formats:

The new DICOM Standard assumes a default little endian representation which seems to be the most appropriate considering the old definition for 32 bit words, which specified that the least significant 16 bit word be transmitted first.

•dicom – 医学数字影像及传输 (iso 12052) – 是医学影像 及相关信息的国际标准 ‒是世界上最广泛使用的医疗健康信息标准之一 10万数量的设备，数百亿的医学影像存档 •dicom定义 ‒影像、波形、派生的结构化数据的格式, … 兼顾临床使用所需要的质量和元数据

Author: Lynn Lear Created Date: 06/25/2018 20:42:10 Title: DICOM Educational Conference Brisbane, Australia Last modified by: Spellman, Lisa

A DICOM data object consists of a number of attributes, including items such as name, ID, etc., and also one special attribute containing the image pixel data (i.e. logically, the main object has no "header" as such, being merely a list of attributes, including the pixel data). A single DICOM object can have only one attribute containing pixel ...