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BASICS OF DICOM |  |
Few Websites dealing with the Basics of DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications
in Medicine)
1.
The Official Home Page Of DICOM is accessible from National Electrical
Manufacturers Association (NEMA) at http://www.nema.org/nema/medical/dicom/.
DICOM is an imaging industry standard which brings about the exchange, processing
and management of medical images in a digital form. There is a Power point
presentation on Dicom available at http://medical.nema.org/dicom/Pixelwrk/.
A summary of the Current Activities And future directions of the Dicom Standard
is accessible at http://medical.nema.org/dicom.html.
To know more about DICOM, DICOM 2001 is a downloadable pdf set of documents available
at http://medical.nema.org/dicom/2001.html.
The material is comprehensive and covers issues such as conformance, information
object definitions, service class specifications and media storage and file format
for media interchange in almost 16 parts
2. A Brief Background of
the DICOM Standard is accessible at http://medical.nema.org/dicom/geninfo/dicomstrategyv105/StrategyJuly0601.htm
. This Strategic Document "provides a summary of the current activities and future
directions of the DICOM standard". The webpage commences with A Brief Background
of the DICOM Standard, deals with the Scope of DICOM, outlines the Technology
Overview and gives a overview of the DICOM's Organizational Structure and the
all important DICOM Standards Committee and Working Groups
3. A Non
Technical Introduction To DICOM is a handy guide written by Steven C. Horii,
MD and is available at http://www.rsna.org/REG/practiceres/dicom/nontechintro.html
. The material covers important areas such as Communication, A DICOM Interchange,
DICOM Services, The Elemental Unit of DICOM, Conformance. An interesting DICOM
Walk-Through is also available at http://www.rsna.org/REG/practiceres/dicom/walkthrough.html
which goes into the DICOM methodology of actual accomplishment of send CT images
from a CT scanner to a workstation
4.
From the Penn State Radiology are a series of material on DICOM specifically
available as Physicians resources on DICOM at http://www.xray.hmc.psu.edu/physresources/dicom/.
The site, in particular has an educative set of DICOM slides in PowerPoint
that can be either viewed at http://www.xray.hmc.psu.edu/physresources/dicom/dicom_slides/
or downloaded as a zip file http://www.xray.hmc.psu.edu/physresources/dicom/dicom_slides/dicom_slides.zip
. Besides all this there are useful links to Basic Information, Dicom Software
Links, Links to Standard Drafts and Conformance Statements
5. The
Basics of DICOM at http://www.offis.de/projekte/dicom/project_dicom2.htm
offers an insight of Dicom. The material from OFFIS traces the origins
of digital medical image processing, moving on to overview of DICOM standard.
It outlines the DICOM data structures and DICOM Network Services. Furthermore,
the important issues of media exchange and the critical area of conformance statement
is also dealt with
6. What mom forgot to tell you about DICOM
is a handy site at http://www.dominator.com/customertools/dicom.htm
authored by Dan Konigsbach a DR Systems Senior Engineer. It is essentially a buyer's
guide for DICOM interconnectivity. The material is primarily to "educate radiology
customers, and to hopefully stimulate other manufacturers to adhere to the DICOM
standard in an honest, open, and functional manner."
7. The DICOM
Standard is a succinct guide from School of Psychology, Nottingham at http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/dicom.html
that offers a basic description of the DICOM standard. The webpage covers useful
material on the introduction to the DICOM single-file format and the importance
of the DICOM header. Besides a free software for viewing DICOM images is also
available. Moreover, links to free DICOM viewers, free DICOM servers/clients,
sample DICOM images and DICOM resources are all available.
8. DICOM:
An Introduction to the Standard is a basic primer on DICOM. This site is authored
by SC Horii, F W. Prior et al and is accessible at
http://www.dicomanalyser.co.uk/html/introduction.htm The site also briefly
deals with the future of DICOM
9. DICOM FAQ is a basic DICOM
primer available at
http://www.meb.uni-bonn.de/standards/dicom/DICOM_FAQ.html
. The material, albeit not recently updated, discuses areas such as the parts
in the standard, the availability of the demonstration software, compliance issues
and newsgroup links
10. DICOM Implementers Cookbook is
a downloadable document from
ftp://ftp-wjq.philips.com/medical/interoperability/out/DICOM_Information/CookBook.pdf
. The material from Philips covers the DICOM standard, the information processing
and Service Classes and issues such as media exchange of information and parts
of the DICOM standard are given.
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