Subject: Medical Image Format FAQ, Part 8/8
Date: 9 Apr 1996 13:34:43 -0400
Summary: This posting contains answers to the most Frequently Asked
. Question on alt.image.medical - how do I convert from image
. format X from vendor Y to something I can use ? In addition
. it contains information about various standard formats.

Posting-Frequency: monthly
Version: 3.01

    7.7 DICOM Information Sources

       - AdobePhotoshop Plugins (Public Domain) for ACR/NEMA import (works with
       NIH Image also):

..- ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac

...- /Graphic/Utility/photoshop-acr-nema.hqx

..- ftp://zippy.nimh.nih.gov/pub/nih-image

...- /plug-ins/ACRNema.hqx Frank Owen
...(owen@sgi.siemens.com)
...- /user-macros/import_ACR_NEMA.txt

       - ANSI - Getting a Registered Organization Number for a DICOM UID Root:

..ANSI Registration Coordinator
..Michelle Maas
..phone (212) 642-4900
..phone (212) 642-4884
..fax   (212) 398-0023
..e-mail mmaas@ansi.org
..www    http://www.ansi.org/

..numeric identifier costs $1000 and takes 10 days (needed for
..DICOM)
..organization name  costs $1500 and takes 90 days (not needed
..for DICOM)

       - COSIRA - Getting a Registered Organization Number for a DICOM UID
       Root:

..COSIRA - Canadian Open Systems Interconnection Registration
..Authority
..275 Slater Street, 19th Floor
..Ottawa Ontario K1P5H9
..phone (613) 236-7803
..fax   (613) 234-6934

..Attention: Louis Ferland, extension 427

..NumberForm object identifier costs $500 Canadian
..NameForm object identifier costs another $500 Canadian

       - DICOM Conversion Tools - dicom3tools:

..- dicom3tools_*.tar.gz

...- ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/dclunie/dicom3tools/
...- http://www.rahul.net/dclunie/dicom3tools/

..- Tools and libraries for handling offline files.
..- Conversion from proprietary formats.
..- Can handle older ACR/NEMA format data.
..- Can handle SPI.
..- VERY limited X display capability.
..- No DICOM networking (yet).
..- Features.

...- Proprietary image conversions from ...

....- GE CT 9800
....- GE CT High Speed Advantage (Genesis)
....- GE MR Signa 3X/4X
....- GE MR Signa 5X (Genesis)
....- GE CT Sytec
....- GE CT Pace
....- GE MR Max
....- Siemens CT Somatom DR family
....- Siemens CT Somatom Plus family (SPI)
....- Siemens MR Magnetom Impact     (SPI)
....- Siemens MR Magnetom SP         (SPI)
....- Siemens MR Magnetom GBS/GBS2   (native)
....- Siemens MR Vision              (native)
....- Philips MR Gyroscan S5         (native,SPI)

...- Image format support ...

....- DICOM 3 offline file format (draft Part 10).
....- Parsing/validate DICOM modules and IODs.
....- Pbmplus extended 16 bit raw format.
....- Raw binary images.

...- Archive retrieval from ...

....- Generic extract 9-track and DAT.
....- GE CT 9800 9-track.
....- GE Genesis DAT.
....- Philips Gyroscan MR S5 ANSI tapes.

...- Miscellaneous image format utilities ...

....- Dump.
....- Patch.
....- Swap bytes.
....- Word to byte shift.
....- Extract 12 bit packed data.
....- Guess unknown image parameters.
....- Vax VMS DUMP output to binary.

       - DICOM Conformance Statement sites:

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Applicare.
...http://www.applicare.nl/#DICOM

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - ATL.
...Not yet available electronically
...jbono@corp.atl.com John Bono

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Duke University Image Server.
...ftp://louis1.mc.duke.edu/pub/dicom/doc

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - General Electric.
...ftp://ftp.med.ge.com/pub/DICOM

...       - Tutorial
...       - Introduction
...       - Advantage Windows
...       - CT HighLight and HighSpeed Advantage
...       - CT Prospeed
...       - MR Signa
...       - MR Vectra

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Index.
...http://www.xray.hmc.psu.edu/dicom/dicom_home.html

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Intech - HiCube.
...http://www.intech.it/hicube/diccons.html

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Intech - XFRAME.
...http://www.intech.it/xframe/home.html

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - ISG.
...http://www.isgtec.com/dicom.htm

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Loral.
...http://www.xray.hmc.psu.edu/dicom/loral_cs/loral_cs.html

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Philips.
...http://www.philips.com/ms/connectivity/index_en.html
...ftp://ftp.xray.hmc.psu.edu/dicom_docs/conformance_stmnts/philips
...dicom@ms.philips.nl

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Picker.

...http://www.picker.com/

...- NM Odyssey (HTML)
...- CT IQ and PQ scanners (Postscript)
...- Voxel Q/AqQSim 3.11 (Postscript)
...- Voxel Q/AqQSim 3.2 (Postscript)
...- MR Edge/Vista/Asset (HTML)
...- Vistar (HTML)

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Siemens.
...http://www.siemens.de/med/dicom/dicom.html
...dicom@ErlH.Siemens.DE

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Survey.
...http://www.rahul.net/dclunie/dicom-conformance/survey.html

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - UCDMC.
...http://www-radiology.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/pacs/MCONF.html

       -  DICOM data dictionary:

..- From NIH ftp://zippy.nimh.nih.gov/pub/nih-image

...- /documents/dicom-dict.txt

..- In dicom3tools_*.tar.gz

...- ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/dclunie
...- http://www.rahul.net/dclunie

       - DICOM Directory of Resources:

.       - http://www.merge.com/subpage/DICOM.html

       - DICOM draft standards and working documents:

.       - DICOM draft standards at Penn State and mirror sites:

...- ftp://ftp.xray.hmc.psu.edu/dicom_docs
...- ftp://ftp.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/dicom/dicom_docs

.       - DICOM draft standards from IMSIG (HL7/DICOM):

...-
...http://dumccss.mc.duke.edu/standards/HL7/sigs/image-management/im-home.html
...-
...ftp://dumccss.mc.duke.edu/standards/HL7/sigs/image-management/

.       - DICOM draft standards at NEMA:

...- ftp://ftp.nema.org/dicom
...- http://www.nema.org/medical

       - DICOM FAQ
..See DICOM FAQ.

       - DICOM File Convertors and Viewers:

.       - AdobePhotoshop Plugins (Public Domain) for ACR/NEMA import
.       - Alice
.       - dicom3tools
.       - Dr Razz
.       - Evergreen Technologies
.       - Imaging Solutions
.       - IMNET Systems
.       - ImportACCESS
.       - InterFormat
.       - Medical Imaging Technology Associates
.       - MultiView
.       - Papyrus and Osiris
.       - SiteView

.- DICOM image samples:

.       - ftp://wuerlim.wustl.edu/pub/dicom/images/version3
.       - ftp://ftp.med.ge.com/pub/DICOM
.       - http://www.xray.hmc.psu.edu/public/med_img_dbs.html
.       - http://www.zki.uni-frankfurt.de/disc95/
.       - http://dominica.ee.ic.ac.uk/ICMIT/Dicom/Files/
.       - http://www.rahul.net/dclunie/images/
.       - http://rgssup.analogic.com/alpha2
.       - http://foyt.indyrad.iupui.edu/medres/iurad2.html

       - DICOM Information Object Validation Service:

.       Submit DICOM images by ftp or http and have them checked online

.       - http://www.rahul.net/dclunie/html/dicomvl.html

       - DICOM Interfile Conversion Software - IDICON:

.       - http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~idicon/ IDICON

       - DICOM to Information System integration contacts:

..Intech HiCube DICOM IS Integration.
..email lapus@intech.it (Lapo Bertini) Director of Marketing
..http http://www.intech.it/hicube/home.html

..Mitra DICOM IS Integration.
..email eric@mitra.com (Eric Peterson)
..http http://www.mitra.com/his-scp.html

..Philips Inturis.
..email R.A.vanGeuns@nl.cis.philips.com (Rob van Geuns)
..http http://www.philips.com/ms/connectivity/index_en.html

       - DICOM interface toolkits and solutions:

..Dejarnette Research Systems Inc.
..Wayne Dejarnette
..Suite 700
..401 Washington Avenue
..Towson, Maryland 21204
..USA
..phone 410-583-0680
..fax   410-583-0696
..email info@dejarnette.com

..Merge Technologies Inc.
..1126 S. 70th St, Suite N508B
..Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53214-34151
..phone 414-475-4300
..fax   414-475-3940
..email sales@merge.com (sales)
..email itk_support@merge.com (toolkit)

..http http://www.merge.com/

..Merge Technologies Europe.
..Molvense Erven 69
..5672 HJ Nuenen
..The Netherlands
..phone +31-40-838-948
..fax   +31-40-832-975

..Kodak Health Imaging Systems
..18325 Waterview Parkway
..Dallas TX 75252
..phone 214-994-1266
..fax   214-994-4180
..email cbs@khis.com (C.B.Stone)

..Mitra
..Eric Peterson
..115 Randall Drive
..Waterloo Ontario N2V 1C5
..Canada
..phone 519-746-2900
..email eric@mitra.com (Eric Peterson)

..http http://www.mitra.com/

       - DICOM Public Servers:

.       - UC Davis MC Public PACS:

...- http://www-radiology.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/pacs/PPP.html
...- information about the service
...- dicom://ppacs@mh_nt1.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu:104 - the
...server itself
...- Host is mh_nt1.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu (152.79.46.101)
...- Port is the standard well-known DICOM TCP port 104
...- Application Entity Title is "ppacs"
...- The server is promiscuous and will respond to any
...Calling AE Title,
... but to target a C-Move you need to register your own
... AE Title and
... IP address and port number in order to receive images.
... To do this
... contact mhoskin@ucdavis.edu.
...- The UCDMC Public PACS acts as an SCP for the
...following SOP Classes:

....- Verification
....- Study Root Retrieve/FIND
....- Study Root Retrieve/MOVE
....- Computed Radiography Storage
....- CT Image Storage
....- Ultrasound Multi-frame Image Storage
....- MR Image Storage
....- Nuclear Medicine Image Storage
....- Ultrasound Image Storage
....- Secondary Capture Image Storage

       - DICOM Publications - General:

..Kodak "Understanding DICOM 3.0" catalog # 1787928, $US 15.00

..Ed Weaver
..Kodak Health Imaging Systems
..18325 Waterview Parkway
..Dallas TX 75252
..phone 1-800-767-3448
..phone 1-214-454-1506
..email eweaver@khis.kodak.com

..Kodak Distribution Center (credit cards)
..phone 1-800-233-1650

       - DICOM Publications - Implementation:

.."Implementation of the DICOM 3.0 Standard - A Pragmatic
..Handbook"
..Robert Hindel, Editor

..RH Consulting
..483 Ridge Road
..Orange CT 06477-2830
..phone 203-799-2258
..fax   203-795-8640
..email 73030.1366@compuserve.com (Robert Hindel)

..Radiological Society of North America
..2021 Spring Road Suite 600
..Oak Brook IL 60521

       - DICOM Publications - Resource Directories:

.."DICOM Tools for End User Applications and System Integration"
..Presented at EuroPACS'94 Geneva Switzerland
..Dwight Simon

..Merge Technologies Inc.
..1126 S. 70th St. Suite N508B
..Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53214-3151
..phone 414-475-4300
..fax   414-475-3940
..email dwight@merge.com (Dwight Simon)

       - DICOM resources at Medx:

.       - http://topaz.sensor.com/work/fmt/dicom

       - DICOM resources in Chile:

..- http://www.dicom.cl

       - DICOM resources at Santel:

..- http://www.santel.lu/SANTEL/imgrel/imagproc.html

       - DICOM software - BMP conversion:

..- ftp://ftp.xray.hmc.psu.edu/dicom_software/dicombmp.zip

       - DICOM software - Cardiology:

..Lossless JPEG software for American College of Cardiology
..Digital Interchange Standards for Cardiology CD-R demo.
..From Brown University Institute for Medical Computing.

..- ftp://ftp.xray.hmc.psu.edu/dicom_software/Brown
..- Jonathan_Elion@brown.edu Jon Elion

       - DICOM software - Medx:

..DICOM dump utility.

..- http://topaz.sensor.com/links/mg/props/dicom

       - DICOM software - RSNA Central Test Node:

.. Contact  Steve Moore smm@wuerl.wustl.edu

..- ftp://wuerlim.wustl.edu/pub/dicom

..- ftp://ftp.xray.hmc.psu.edu/dicom_software

...- /Mallinckrodt
... Mallinkrodt RSNA
...- /European
... European CEN/TC251/WG4

..- ftp://ftp.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/dicom/dicom_software

..- Linux port of Mallinckrodt CTN software

...- From ftp://ss10.numed.szote.u-szeged.hu/pub/MIR-CTN/

...    - Modified sources /Linux/CTN.Linux.tar.Z
...    - Compiled binaries /Linux/CTN.Linux.bin.tar.Z

...- Ported by boti@ss10.numed.szote.u-szeged.hu

.- DICOM software - UC Davis Medical Center:

..Binary libraries for Unix(various) and Windows/NT,
..written in C++, well documented, no royalties,
..supports Storage,Query/Retrieve for most objects.

..- ftp://imrad.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/pub/dicom/UCDMC
..- http://www-radiology.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/intro/radhome.html
..- http://www-radiology.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/pacs/MCONF.html
..COnformance Statement
..- mhoskin@ucdavis.edu Mark Oskin
..- rlkennedy@ucdavis.edu R.L. Kennedy

       - DICOM Standard Publisher

..See NEMA.

       - DICOM tutorial - Cardiology:

..DISC 96 Demonstration tutorial - lots of general information
..included

..- http://www.xray.hmc.psu.edu/dicom/acc_tut/tutorial.html

       - DICOM Registered Organization Number for a DICOM UID Root:

..ANSI Registration Coordinator
..COSIRA - Canadian Open Systems Interconnection Registration
..Authority

       - DICOM Ultrasound/Echocardiography - ICMIT:

.       - International Consortium for Medical Imaging Technology
.       - http://dominica.ee.ic.ac.uk/ICMIT/ICMIT.html
.       - s.claesen@ic.ac.uk Stefan Claesen

       - DICOM to web gateways:

..Medweb.
..667 Folsom Street
..San Fransisco CA 94107
..phone 1-800-8MEDWEB
..phone 415-541-9980
..fax   415-541-9984
..email sales@medweb.net
..http  http://www.medweb.net/

..Passport Technologies.
..86 Orchard Street
..Hackensack NJ 07601
..phone 201-487-5885
..fax   201-487-7455
..email sbeer@ibm.net (Steve Beer) Director of RD,Marketing

       - DICOM WWW gateways:

.       - Analogic

..   - http://rgssup.analogic.com/alpha2 DICOM gateway
..   - Both GIF and DICOM images (Content-Type: image/dicom3)
..   available
..   - rsmillie@analogic.org Richard Smillie

.       - Indiana University Radiology

..   - http://foyt.indyrad.iupui.edu/medres/iurad2.html Sample
..   gateway
..   - Only JPEG translations of DICOM images available
..   - ftp://foyt.indyrad.iupui.edu/pub Implementation
..   - gcbrowni@foyt.indyrad.iupui.edu Grover Browning

       - General Electric, GEMS DICOM information contacts:

..Donald VanSyckle
..Senior Systems Analyst
..GE Medical Systems
..3200 N. Grandview Blvd.
..Waukesha WI 53188
..phone (414) 521-6262
..fax   (414) 521-6800
..email vansyckled@med.ge.com

       - NEMA - DICOM standard publishers

..NEMA
..1300 North 17th Street, Suite 1847
..Rosslyn VA 22209

..phone 703-841-3200

..http://www.nema.org/medical
..ftp://ftp.nema.org/dicom

..phone 703-841-3285 David Snavely, Staff Executive
..dav_snavely@nema.org
..phone 703-841-3217 Jean Brown (David's secretary)
..jea_brown@nema.org
..phone 703-841-3281 Vicki Schofield, Industry Manager
..vic_schofield@nema.org
..fax   703-841-3381

..phone 703-841-3200 NEMA Publication Sales

..Last price I have for Parts 1-13 was $USD255 plus SH

..Hotel near NEMA headquarters with NEMA Room Block rate US
..$119.00 per night:

..Hyatt Arlington
..1325 Wilson Blvd
..Arlington, VA 22209

..phone 800-233-1234
..phone 703-525-1234

..Nearest airport to NEMA is Washington National (very close).
..Delta Shuttle leaves NYC-LaGuardia at 0630 in time for 0900
..meetings.
..phone 800-221-1212 Delta Reservations - Domestic

       - Osiris - see Papyrus and Osiris.

8.  Acknowledgements

    Thanks to the many people for contributions, general help, interesting
    postings or mail whose contents have found there way in here, or just plain
    old moral support. They used to be listed by name and email address here,
    but the list was getting so long and difficult to update that it got out of
    hand and has been retired !

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