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Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is an international
standard used for medical images such as X-rays, MRIs, ultrasounds, and other
medical imaging modalities.
The Cloud Healthcare API provides operations for reading DICOM instances,
studies, and series that are consistent with the DICOMweb standard, and
supports the DICOM DIMSE C-STORE operation using anopen source adapter.
See theDICOMdocumentation
for more details on DICOM.
DICOM stores
ADICOM storeis a data store in the Cloud Healthcare API that holds all
of your DICOM instances. DICOM stores exist inside datasets.
TheDicomStoreresource provides a representation of a DICOM store's
attributes. For each of your DICOM stores, you can choose whether to publish changes to the DICOM store (such as the ingestion of a new instance into the store) to aPub/Subtopic.
DICOMweb conformance
See theDICOM conformance statementfor information
on the DICOMweb implementation in the Cloud Healthcare API.
The DICOMweb implementation in the Cloud Healthcare API only
supports REST, not RPC.
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