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DICOM
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine.
- DICOM is a standard for handling, storing, printing, and transmitting information in medical imaging.
- Includes a file format definition and a network communications protocol.
- DICOM differs from other data formats in that it groups information into data sets. That means that a file actually contains the patient ID within the file, so that the image can never be separated from this information by mistake.
- The communication protocol is an application protocol that uses TCP/IP to communicate between systems.
- DICOM enables the integration of scanners, servers, workstations, printers, and network hardware from multiple manufacturers into a picture archiving and communication system. The different devices come with DICOM conformance statements which clearly state the DICOM classes they support.
- BabySentryPro utilizes a DICOM interface to ultrasound machines or other sources of imagery.
- Please refer to dicom.nema.org for more details.
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