DICOM In-Depth Course Agenda

DVS Consulting, LLC

 



Day 1 Agenda:

 

Introduction into DICOM In-Depth

 

How to navigate the DICOM Standard

*  Parts 1 – 15

*   DICOM Publications

*   Supplements and Correction Proposals

*   How to get information

 

DICOM Encoding

*   Group and Element Tags. Length, Value

*   Default encoding and Transfer Syntax – Little Endian

*   Value Representation

*   Explicit Value Representation – Big Endian

*   Image Pixel Encoding – 8 bit and 16 bit

*   Key attributes for Image Display

*   Sequence of Items

*   Unknown Attribute Values (zero length)

*   Exercise – Read a DICOM Encoded Image (Hex Dump)

*   Enumerated Value/Defined Terms

*   Private Data Elements

*   Coding Schemes and Templates

*   How to build a valid UID

*   Multi-Frame Image – Frame Increment Pointer

*   Compression Transfer Syntaxes

*   Language support in DICOM

 

How to Read a CT (Composite) Image Object Definition

*   ER Diagram - Information Entities

*   Requirement Types 1, 2, and 3

*   IOD Tables

*   CT IOD Modules and Attributes in Part 3

 

How to Read a Normalize Object Definition (MPPS)

*   Differences in Part 3 and Part 4

*   SCU and SCP Requirements

*   SCU and SCP Behaviors


DICOM SOP Class – Detailed review of applications

*   Storage

*           DICOM Message Structure

*           C-STORE, IODs

*   Query/Retrieve

*           Query/Retrieve Models

*           C-FIND

*           Exercise – How to perform a Query Request

*           Retrieve and C-MOVE


 

 


Day 2 Agenda:

DICOM SOP Class – Detailed review of applications (con’t)

*   Modality Worklist (MWL)

*           C-FIND

*           Broad Based Query

*           Patient Based Query

*           Understanding the required attributes – linked to IHE requirements

*           Importance of Study Instance UID

*   Modality Performed Procedure Step (MPPS)

        *           N-CREATE

*           N-SET

*           Linking MPPS to MWL

*           Understanding the required attributes – linked to IHE requirements

*           Importance of Study Instance UID

*   *           Storage Commitment

*           N-ACTION, N-EVENT-REPORT

*           Action and Event Information

*           SCU/SCP Role Negotiation

*           How to manage the required multiple associations

*   Print

*           N-CREATE, N-SET, N-ACTION, and N-DELETE

*           Film Session

*           Film Box

*           Image Box

*           Print Job

*   Structured Reporting

*           How the SR Model relates to other DICOM objects

*           How to Query/Retrieve an SR

*           How to build an SR – Content Items, Name/Value Pair, Coded Entries

*           What is the Simple Image Report

*           What is a Template – how are they used

*           Relationship to IHE, XML, etc.

*   Media Interchange

*           Application Profiles

*           DICOM File Format

*           Media – MOD, CD-R, DVD

*           File Set Reader (FSR), File Set Creator (FSC), and File Set Updater (FSU)

*           DICOM Directory (DICOMDIR)

*           Directory Record Keys