DICOM Standard and Its Application in Radioinformatics

Abstract

The DICOM standard is the emerging standard in the field of medical informatics. It defines the standard network interface and data model makes the medical image equipment manufacturers on the standard network equipment interconnection, simplify the development of various types of medical image, promote open unrelated to the factory of medical digital image transmission and exchange, prompting the image archiving and communication system of PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) and the combination of various hospital information system HIS (Hospital Information Systems). Radiation therapy departments in many hospitals have purchased more than one manufacturer of radiotherapy planning systems, and treatment information has to be communicated using DICOM standards. The use of DICOM in radiotherapy is called DICOM RT. At home, doctors are not fully aware of its importance and researchers do not. This paper mainly discusses the implementation and application of DICOM and protocol in precision radiotherapy system. The main contents include: (1) DICOM RT defines a total of seven information objects, which play a pivotal role in the information exchange of radiotherapy system. Discuss the content of DICOM RT; discuss the development of radiotherapy technology at home and abroad. (2) At present, DICOM standard has been widely used in the field of medical informatics, but no authority can provide DICOM compatibility verification of imaging equipment or DICOM application system, which still has many difficulties in system interconnection, that is, the research and implementation of DICOM test method. (3) The application of DICOM in PACS system. (4) Impaired compression study without visual loss in medical images based on DICOM standard.