DICOM In-Depth Course Agenda
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Day
1 Agenda:
DICOM Publications
Supplements and Correction Proposals
How to get information
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
ER Diagram - Information Entities
Requirement Types 1, 2, and 3
IOD Tables
CT IOD Modules and Attributes in Part 3
Differences in Part 3 and Part 4
SCU and SCP Requirements
SCU and SCP Behaviors
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:
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