Can DICOM include 3D mesh?

Can DICOM include 3D mesh?

DICOM 3D Mesh #

What type of 3D Mesh can Dicom include?

5 main befits of DICOM standard #

  1. excellent image quality
  2. universal adopted medical imaging standard
  3. image acquisition parameters & data types (patient & device information)
  4. encoding of medical data
  5. description of digital imaging devices and their functionality

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Patient Information Object Definition (IOD)

  • DICOM uses Services to perform functions with the objects
  • DICOM object + DICOM service = a Service Object Pair (SOP)

For DICOM standards, see the following links:

Click the first link of Chapter 15 – “the DICOM Conformance Statement”. In addition, see the DICOM Structured Report (DICOM SR) for adding scanned images and close-look images for lesion of interest (Total-body Photography).