title: Leveraging Internet technologies with DICOM WADO.
abstract: The digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) 3.0 standard was first officially ratified by the national electrical manufacturers association in 1993. The success of the DICOM open standard cannot be overstated in its ability to enable an explosion of innovation in the best of breed picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) industry. At the heart of the success of allowing interoperability between disparate systems have been three fundamental DICOM operations: C-MOVE, C-FIND, and C-STORE. DICOM C-MOVE oversees the transfer of DICOM Objects between two systems using C-STORE. DICOM C-FIND negotiates the ability to discover DICOM objects on another node. This paper will discuss the efforts within the DICOM standard to adapt this core functionality to Internet standards. These newer DICOM standards look to address the next generation of PACS challenges including highly distributed mobile acquisition systems and viewing platforms.
authors.affiliation: eHealth and Regional Health Business, Agfa HealthCare, 375 Hagey Boulevard, Waterloo, ON, N2L 6R5, Canada. paul.lipton@agfa.com
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lipton
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nagy
authors.forename: Gorkem
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sevinc
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000592:standards*; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D020407:Internet; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D018511:Systems Integration