A Composite Instance is the official DICOM term for a persistent storable object.

PACS, picture archiving and communication systems, is a term used for a set of computers connected by a network, and dedicated to the storage, retrieval, distribution, and presentation of medical images.

Transfer Syntax is the language used in DICOM to describe the DICOM file format and the network transfer methods.

Why Private Data Element Implementations may require communication of information that cannot be contained in Standard Data Elements.

A Module is a group of DICOM attributes which provide information for related data, such as the “Patient” or the “Equipment”.

We are sometimes asked how to retrieve as study based on the accession number.