A Private SOP Class is an object constructed and transmitted in the same basic way as an official DICOM SOP Class but with the contents defined by the creator of the private SOP class, rather than by DICOM.

Hanging protocols are a means of defining how images should initially be displayed to a user.

A conformance statement is a detailed description, in a specific format (as defined in Part 2 of DICOM) of the DICOM-specific features of a particular product.

The Standard DICOM DateTime Format The standard DateTime format (YYYYMMDD) is explained in Table 6.

DICOM IOCM Image Object Change Management (IOCM) is a relatively new service in DICOM which uses (some would say, abuses) KOS object to provide a controlled mechanism for requesting the deletion of images from an archive.

The ROOT is the overall data model, and there are two main roots in DICOM, STUDY and PATIENT.