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DICOM, the "Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine" protocol,
has now been widely adopted by the manufacturers as the standard for
providing interconnectivity between the various equipment used in
Radiology and Radiotherapy. However, since DICOM departs
somewhat from standard network protocols based on WEB technology, it
is rarely mastered by IT people from the hospitals. This leaves the
problems of interoperability to the responsibility of the medical physicists
in charge of the equipment. The aim of the course was to provide
the medical physicist with the necessary qualifications for understanding
the DICOM protocol in some detail, especially for its use in Radiotherapy.
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Lecture notes
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titles by an attending lay person.
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Mrs L. Perret
Computer Science Department,
IIUN,
University of Neuchâtel |
Introduction to networking
(250 kB)
- Network architecture consists of a stack of layers:
- host to network (physical transfer, e.g. Ethernet);
- internet layer (packet routing, using IP);
- transport layer (rearranging packets, error checking, using TCP);
- application layer (ftp, http, smtp, ...).
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Ch. Parisot
GE Medical Systems, France |
The basic structure of DICOM
(1'336 kB)
- DICOM is an application layer (the "http" for medical
images).
- Define the required workflow as first step - then
consider how to solve this with DICOM.
- Don't ask "Do you support DICOM?" - but
"Which service class do you support?".
- Storage service class (send an image);
- Query service class (ask whether images exist);
- Retrieve service class (ask for images to be sent).
Check conformance statements for matching SC-User vs.
SC-Provider.
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M. Neumann
Nucletron B.V., Veenendaal,
The Netherlands |
The DICOM extensions for radiotherapy
(1'954 kB)
- DICOM-RT is not a separate standard - it is an
extension, defining 7 new objects:
- RT image
- RT dose
- RT structure set
- RT plan
- RT treatment record (bem session, brachy session,
summary).
- Beams are defined with a system of "control
points".
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J.-F. Germond
Hospital of
La Chaux-de-Fonds |
The clinical physics aspects behind DICOM-RT
(5'722 kB)
- What should the physicist know about DICOM-RT?
- Terminology (learn it);
- Clinic work flow (describe it);
- Interpretation of attributes (map it).
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H. Deutschmann
LKS Salzburg, Austria |
Real time process validation in clinical practice and the role of DICOM-RT
(Due to the dynamic sequences in this presentation conversion to pdf was not possible)
- It is not difficult to define meaningful
functionalities which cannot be handled with the present
DICOM-RT version - so the standard needs further
development.
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Ch. Parisot
GE Medical Systems, France |
General perspectives of DICOM
(4'981 kB)
- Handle workflow (already works for diagnostic
radiology):
- Worklist for device;
- Storage commitment;
- Modality performed procedure step.
- Future developments need to be user-driven and
vendor-supported.
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M. Neumann
Nucletron B.V., Veenendaal,
The Netherlands |
Radiotherapy perspectives of DICOM
(1'013 kB)
- Extended query/retrieve (for RT objects).
- Handle workflow (in DICOM-RT).
- Integration with RT Information Systems.
- Incorporate new functionalities (e.g. fluence maps,
optimization parameters).
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