MEDRADSC 2BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dicom, Internet Service Provider, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Medical Radiation Sciences
• Course: MEDRADSC 2BB3
• Professor: Sandra Charbonneau

Document Summary

Industry, professional groups & clinical partners collaborate in working groups. A committee structure is used & testing is done to ensure functionality ( de-bugging ) Every major vendor is a part of the process. Develop standards for the exchange of medical information (ie cardiovascular information) Coordinate activity with other working groups (wg) Wg02, wg08, wg12, x-ray angiography, us, & structured reporting. We know there are many aspects of communication between imaging modalities, display stations & storage. Dicom describes each of the areas of communication as specific service classes. Dicom identifies imaging modalities as service objects. Dicom specifications define for device the following classes of information: To define sending & receipt of information. Object class: contains information about the study & patient ie. patient, study, results, modality. Service class: describes what to do with objects ie. image print, store, query, retrieval. Imaging equipment may behave as a scu or scp.