Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Introduction
• The DICOM Interface
• History
• Information Objects
• Roles
• Service Classes
• Conformance
• Parts of the Standard
• Other DICOM Terms
Image Clinical
Acquisition Interpretation
Film
Management
and
Library
Result Distribution
Image Output to
on Film Referring Physician
Introduction-
Evolving from a hospital need
In the 1980’s, it became clear
that the tremendous growth
in image acquisition systems,
display workstations, archiving
systems and Hospital Infor-
mation Systems made it
vital to have a good
connectivity and
interoperability between all
kinds of (medical) equipment.
Distribution
Printer
Network
Image
Archive
acquisition
1 2
Network
SCP
SCU
Image
DICOM
Application DICOM DICOM Protocol
Transfer TCP
Communication TCP TCP Protocol
Protocol
IP
Network IP IP Protocol
(Internet Protocol)
Ethernet
Link Ethernet card Ethernet card Protocol
(DICOM I/F PWB)
Course Name
Network
Toshiba America International Training Academy
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Data transfer
• When the system starts the communication, it will
send a package to the other system (provider) with
– The other party's IP address
– The other party's Port Number.
– The other party's AE title (Application Entity)
– The systems IP address for return handshake
• In the other system this packet will be passed
upwards and because of the port number, the TCP
layer knows to which application this package must
be passed. The DICOM provider will now check the
AE Title and respond to the source IP number with
the source port number.
• The packages that are sent are called datagrams.
• Physical
• OSI model
DICOM Application Entity
DICOM "Added
Value"
OSI Assocationa DICOM
OSI Upper Layer Control (ACSE)
Service Boundary Upper Layer
OSI Presentation protocol for
OSI Session TCP/IP
OSI Transport TCP
OSI Network
IP
OSI LLC Standard
Networking