DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) Quick Facts

About Quick Facts Tables

Format Type Identifier

  • DICOM_FILE, or
  • DICOM_DIR

Reader/Writer

Reader

Licensing Level

Professional Edition and above

Dataset Type

  • File, or
  • Folder

Feature Type

  • DICOM_FILE or DICOM_DIR
  • Patient Name or Id
  • Study Description or Id
  • Series Description or Number

Typical File Extensions

  • None
  • .dcm

Automated Translation Support

Yes

User-Defined Attributes

No

Coordinate System Support

No

Generic Color Support

No

Spatial Index

No

Schema Required

No

Transaction Support

No

Encoding Support

Yes

Geometry Type Attribute

dicom_type

DICOM Geometry Support

Geometry

Supported?

aggregate

no

circles

no

circular arc

no

donut polygon

no

elliptical arc

no

ellipses

no

line

no

none

no

point

no

polygon

no

raster

yes

solid

no

surface

no

text

no

z values

no

DICOM Raster Support

Band Interpretations

Int8, UInt8, Int16, UInt16, Int32, UInt32, Int64, UInt64, Real32, Real64, Red8, Red16, Green8, Green16, Blue8, Blue16, Alpha8, Alpha16

Palette Key Interpretations

not applicable

Palette Value Interpretations

not applicable

Nodata Value

not applicable

Cell Origin (x, y)

0.5, 0.5

Rotation Support

No

GCP Support

No

World File Support

No

TAB File Support

No