C DICOM Encoding Rules

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) includes transfer syntax. The transfer syntax is a complete set of DICOM encoding rules for medical images.

This appendix includes these sections:

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C.1 Transfer Syntax for Medical Imaging

Table C-1 lists the DICOM encoding rules that support medical imaging in Oracle Multimedia DICOM. See Section C.2 for descriptions of the abbreviations used in the Support column for Table C-1.

Table C-1 Encoding Rules for Transfer Syntax

Value Name Support

1.2.840.10008.1.2

Implicit VR Little Endian Default Transfer Syntax

PR

1.2.840.10008.1.2.1

Explicit VR Little Endian Transfer Syntax

PR

1.2.840.10008.1.2.1.99

Deflated Explicit VR Little Endian

PR

1.2.840.10008.1.2.2

Explicit VR Big Endian

PR

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.50

JPEG Baseline (Process 1)

PR

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.51

JPEG Extended (Process 2 & 4)

R

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.52

JPEG Extended (Process 3 & 5) (Retired)

R

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.53

JPEG Spectral Selection, Non-Hierarchical (Process 6 & 8) (Retired)

R

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.54

JPEG Spectral Selection, Non-Hierarchical (Process 7 & 9) (Retired)

R

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.55

JPEG Full Progression, Non-Hierarchical (Process 10 & 12) (Retired)

R

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.56

JPEG Full Progression, Non-Hierarchical (Process 11 & 13) (Retired)

R

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.57

JPEG Lossless, Non-Hierarchical (Process 14)

R

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.58

JPEG Lossless, Non-Hierarchical (Process 15) (Retired)

R

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.59

JPEG Extended, Hierarchical (Process 16 & 18) (Retired)

R

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.60

JPEG Extended, Hierarchical (Process 17 & 19) (Retired)

R

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.61

JPEG Spectral Selection, Hierarchical (Process 20 & 22) (Retired)

R

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.62

JPEG Spectral Selection, Hierarchical (Process 21 & 23) (Retired

R

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.63

JPEG Full Progression, Hierarchical (Process 24 & 26) (Retired)

R

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.64

JPEG Full Progression, Hierarchical (Process 25 & 27) (Retired)

R

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.65

JPEG Lossless, Hierarchical (Process 28) (Retired)

R

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.66

JPEG Lossless, Hierarchical (Process 29) (Retired)

R

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.70

JPEG Lossless, Non-Hierarchical, First-Order Prediction (Process 14 [Selection Value 1])

PR

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.80

JPEG-LS Lossless Image Compression

PR

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.81

JPEG-LS Lossy (Near-Lossless) Image Compression

PR

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.90

JPEG 2000 Image Compression (Lossless Only)

PR

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.91

JPEG 2000 Image Compression

PR

1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.100

MPEG2 Main Profile @ Main Level

PR

1.2.840.10008.1.2.5

RLE Lossless

PR


C.2 Definitions for Transfer Syntax Abbreviations

These abbreviations are used in Table C-1:

P

The processCopy( ), createDicomImage( ), and writeMetadata( ) procedures and methods are able to produce DICOM content of this transfer syntax.

R

The extractMetadata( ), setProperties( ), and isConformanceValid( ) methods are able to read DICOM content of this transfer syntax. If the encoding rule is not changing between the source and destination DICOM content, then the processCopy( ), createDicomImage( ), and writeMetadata( ) procedures and methods are also supported for this transfer syntax.