Developers often ask for advice on how to create their own UIDs and manage roots, so here is a suggested simple scheme.

Is it possible to get patient information from DICOM Print? Some developers, faced by systems with DICOM Print and no DICOM C-STORE have wondered whether that “DICOM output” could be used to capture images to store in a PACS.

Digital Imaging & Communication in Medicine DICOM is the main standard used in medical imaging, and is the main purpose of DicomObjects

Transfer Syntax Negotiation in DICOM is relatively simple, but often misunderstood.

Transfer Syntax Negotiation in DICOM is relatively simple, but often misunderstood.

UIDs are fundamental to DICOM and have many uses, including there being a unique one for each SOP Class and for each Composite Instance and each Normalised Instance.