The DICOM Protocol

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 communications protocol. This protocol is an application protocol; it uses TCP/IP to communicate between systems. DICOM files can be exchanged between two entities that have the capability to receive the information - image and patient data - in DICOM format.

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The official DICOM homepage