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An Overview of the DICOM File Format

The following topics provide general information about the DICOM File Format. It is designed to help familiarize you with DICOM. For more detailed information on the DICOM File Format, you should refer to the DICOM Standard, published by the

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Topics

Basic DICOM File Structure
Data Element Fields
Value Representations
Value Multiplicity (VM) and Delimitation
Data Element Structure
Group Length
Big Endian versus Little Endian Byte Ordering
Data Element Type
Nesting of Data Sets
Item Encoding Rules
Delimination Sequence of Items
Repeating Groups
Retired Data Elements
Private Data Elements
Private Data Element Tags
Encoding of Pixel Data
Pixel Data Encoding of Related Data Elements
Item Encoding Rules
Native or Encapsulated Format Encoding
Compression
Unique Identifiers
Information Object Definitions
Composite IOD
Normalized IOD
Attributes
Normalized and Composite SOP Classes
Modules
Definitions
Private Data Element Tags