02. DICOM Networking: Introduction

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Clinical Network Architecture

ND320 C3 L4 02 Clinical Networks And Integration Points (DICOM)

Summary

When it comes to moving medical images around the hospital, the DICOM standard comes to the rescue. Alongside the definition of the format for storing images and metadata (which we have looked at in detail in previous lessons, it defines the networking protocol for moving the images around.

In the following few concepts, we will be talking about DICOM networking services, which are defined in Part 7 and Part 8 of the standard.

What is a DICOM Application Entity?

What is a DICOM Application Entity

SOLUTION: An abstraction of an application that uses DICOM networking protocol to communicate