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Abstract
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
is increasingly becoming the industry standard for exchanging
imaging data across modalities. This standard facilitates
exchange of meaningful imaging data between various
modalities. DICOM being a comparatively new standard,
many modalities in the medical world are not DICOM enabled.
In the increasingly networked medical workflow environment,
DICOM standards would play a crucial role in the medical
equipment manufacturing industry that deals with medical
images. The DICOM service implementation requires transfer
of imaging data from one modality to another in a particular
format. The implementation approach given below provides
a flexible framework to DICOM enable various modalities.
It provides a scalable framework for converting the
existing data to DICOM standard types.
DICOM mandates certain data to be transferred along
with image data and the remaining data is optional.
The proposed framework would help users configure such
optional data in text files (dictionary) which can be
changed at run time without the need of recompiling
the application. The underlying premise being that DICOM
services would be realized using commercial libraries
and the solution would be available using a specific
DICOM library. This white paper explains the basic DICOM
standards, implementation procedures involved and the
benefits gained by implementing this standard.
Author
Rakesh Nigudkar
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