Standards body (SDO)

DICOM Standard (NEMA)

DICOM

HealthcareData & file formats

WHY YOU NEED THIS

Hospital PACS, CT/MRI exports, and radiology workflows use DICOM — a massive tagged data dictionary indexed by PS number.

What It Is

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine — medical image file format, network protocol (DIMSE), and IOD (Information Object Definition) dictionary.

Taxonomy

By PS number (Part 1–20+) · IOD index · SOP classes · Transfer syntaxes

Top-Level Categories

File format & media storageNetwork communicationIOD dictionarySOP classesStructured reporting

Master Catalog

Current standard

Sub-Indexes & Guides

DICOM library browser

Related Registry Sources

dicommedical-imaginghealthcarepacs