In this thesis, we describe one of the most important standards for DICOM medical data exchange. We explain the details of the data structures defined by the standard, how these data structures relate to other medical data exchange standards, and briefly describe the history of the standard's development.
In addition to the description of the standard itself, we also analyze the compliance of two sample radiological examinations with the DICOM standard based on the rules specified by the standard in the documentation. We explain how we obtained individual images in the DICOM standardized format from CD discs of sample examinations, their structure, and look for possible inconsistencies with the standard in the record itself. Since the DICOM standard is quite extensible and loose, at the end we also check if the same information about the performed examinations is visible in different DICOM image viewers (some licensed and some unlicensed).
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