Many pieces of equipment will try to negotiate both a Private SOP class and an official DICOM SOP Class for the images they send to a PACS, on the basis that only a PACS from the same manufacturer will accept the private one, with everyone else accepting only the DICOM one.

There are two kinds of Rejection during association establishment, Association Rejection and Contexts Rejection.

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

DicomObjects (both COM and .NET versions) supports smoothing of displayed images, controlled by the MagnificationMode and MinificationMode properties of the image.

Those two functions of DicomImage sometimes get people confused as which should they use and which not.

As disk space usage has always been a priority when designing/implementing DICOM applications, “What is the best practice for writing DICOM files?