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Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine - Definition |
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Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a comprehensive set of standards for handling, storing and transmitting information in medical imaging. It includes a file format definition and a network communication protocol.
DICOM was developed to enable integration of scanners, servers, workstations and network hardware from multiple vendors into a picture archiving and communication system.
DICOM files consist of a header with standardized as well as free-form fields and a body of image data. A single DICOM file can contain one or more images, allowing storage of volumes and/or animations. Image data can be compressed using a variety of standards, including JPEG, LZW and Run-length encoding (RLE).
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