Overview of the DICOM standard

Author

Mustra, Mario ; Delac, Kresimir ; Grgic, Mislav

Author_Institution

Dept. of Wireless Commun., Univ. of Zagreb, Zagreb

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

39

Lastpage

44

Abstract

Digital technology has in the last few decades entered almost every aspect of medicine. There has been a huge development in noninvasive medical imaging equipment. Because there are many medical equipment manufacturers, a standard for storage and exchange of medical images needed to be developed. DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine) makes medical image exchange more easy and independent of the imaging equipment manufacturer. Besides the image data, DICOM file format supports other information useful to describe the image. This makes DICOM easy to use and the data exchange fast and safe while avoiding possible confusion caused by multiple files for the same study.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical imaging; DICOM standard; Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine; digital technology; medical equipment manufacturers; noninvasive medical imaging equipment; Biomedical equipment; Biomedical imaging; Communication standards; Computer displays; DICOM; Image storage; Mammography; Manufacturing; Medical diagnostic imaging; Standards development; DICOM; Mammography; Medical Imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ELMAR, 2008. 50th International Symposium

Conference_Location

Zadar

ISSN

1334-2630

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3364-3

Type

conf

Filename

4747434