Professional DICOM management
for medical imaging centres

What is DICOM?

DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is the international standard for the acquisition, storage, distribution, and display of medical images. Published by ACR and NEMA, the current specification (PS3.x) spans more than 20 parts covering everything from the network protocol to file formats.

Every DICOM image is an object that contains both the image pixels and all the patient and study metadata (name, date, modality, acquisition parameters) in a standardised data structure. This means a CT acquired on a Siemens scanner can be displayed immediately on a Philips workstation without any conversion.

A PACS like Medisfera acts simultaneously as an SCP (Service Class Provider) to receive and serve images, and as an SCU (Service Class User) to query and retrieve images from external systems.

(0008,0016) UI =1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.2  # CT Image Storage
(0008,0020) DA [20250315]                  # Study Date
(0008,0060) CS [CT]                        # Modality
(0010,0010) PN [GARCIA^PEDRO]              # Patient Name
(0010,0020) LO [0512345678A]               # Patient ID
(0010,0030) DA [19751022]                  # Birth Date
(0020,000D) UI [1.2.3.4.5.6.7...]          # Study Instance UID
(0020,000E) UI [1.2.3.4.5.6.8...]          # Series Instance UID
(0028,0010) US 512                         # Rows
(0028,0011) US 512                         # Columns
(0028,0030) DS [0.625.625]               # Pixel Spacing
(7FE0,0010) OW [...]                       # Pixel Data