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What is DICOM? What it stands for, who developed it and why we need it.The question for this section is what is DICOM? The answer, Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine. NEMA, the National Electrical Manufacturers Association is the group that holds the copyright to the DICOM standard. Members of NEMA formed the DICOM Standards Committee that is the group that developed the standard. It is a standard that defines how medical imaging information is handled, stored, printed and transmitted. It also defines a network communications protocol and the file format. DICOM communications occur at the applications level using TCP/IP to communicate between systems. This standard is what allows the various imaging devices, servers, workstations, film printers and network hardware to perform DICOM transactions between devices regardless of vendor or platform. Topics that will be discussed as you progress through this DICOM Training portion of the site include: The DICOM Standard, Data Format, Services, SOP class, and the conformance statement.
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