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Introduction to the DICOM standard

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Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) has become one of the most popular standards in medicine. In the beginning, DICOM was used for communication of image data between different systems. Actual developments of the standardisation enables increasingly more DICOM-based services for the integration of modalities and information systems (e.g. RIS, PACS). In this article a review of the historical background, the technological concept, the organizational structure and current developments is given.

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  1. Department of Radiology, University Hospital Mainz, Langenbeckstrasse 1, 55131 Mainz, Germany, Germany

    Peter Mildenberger

  2. OFFIS (Oldenburger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsinstitut für Informatik-Werkzeuge und -Systeme, Escherweg 2, 26121 Oldenburg, Germany, Germany

    Marco Eichelberg

  3. Siemens Corp. Research, 755 College Road, East Princeton NJ 08540, USA, USA

    Eric Martin

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Mildenberger, P., Eichelberg, M. & Martin, E. Introduction to the DICOM standard. Eur Radiol 12, 920–927 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003300101100

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