Subject: Medical Image Format FAQ, Part 8/8
Date: 8 Aug 1997 05:29:07 -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.

Archive-name: medical-image-faq/part8
Posting-Frequency: monthly
Mon Aug  4 17:09:50 CDT 1997
Version: 3.16

    7.7 DICOM Information Sources

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


..- Note that NIH Image now imports DICOM images natively
..- http://idt.net/~dclunie/dicom-plugin/

...- Handles Part 10 and old ACR/NEMA or SPI 8 or 16 bit
...grayscale.

..- Frank Owen's ACR/NEMA Plugin for NIH Image (works with
..photoshop):

...-
...ftp://zippy.nimh.nih.gov/pub/nih-image/plug-ins/ACRNema.hqx
...-
...ftp://mirror.apple.com/mirrors/Info-Mac.Archive/gst/grf/pshp/acr-nema-121.hqx
...-
...ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/mac/info-mac/gst/grf/pshp/acr-nema-121.hqx
...- Frank Owen (owen@sgi.siemens.com)

..- Other NIH Image stuff:

...-
...ftp://zippy.nimh.nih.gov/pub/nih-image/user-macros/import_acr_nema.txt



       - AVS Module for ACR/NEMA import (works with SPI images):


..-
..ftp://testavs.ncsc.org/avs/AVS5/Module_Src/data_input/read_acr_nema/


       - CEN TC251 WG4 (European parallel of DICOM):


..- http://www.ehto.be/cen251w4


       - DICOM Conversion Tools - dicom3tools:


..- dicom3tools_*.tar.gz

...- http://idt.net/~dclunie/dicom3tools.html

..- Tools and libraries for handling offline files.
..- Conversion from proprietary formats (mostly in the older
..version of the tools).
..- Can handle older ACR/NEMA format data.
..- Can handle SPI.
..- VERY limited X display capability.
..- No DICOM networking (yet).
..-Features (of the workinprogress snapshot code)

...-Proprietary image conversions from ...

....-General Electric CT High Speed Advantage
....(Genesis)
....-General Electric MR Signa 5X (Genesis)
....-General Electric Advantage Windows
....-General Electric CT Pace
....-Siemens CT Somatom Plus family
....(Native)(incomplete)
....-Imatron CT (incomplete)
....-Shimadzu MR (incomplete)

...-Image format support ...

....-DICOM 3 offline file format as per Part 10.
....-Parsing/validating DICOM 3 data sets as
....modules and IODs.
....- Build/dump DICOMDIR.
....-Pbmplus extended 16 bit raw format.
....-Raw binary images.

...-Display support ...

....-Generic X Windows display of DICOM images

.....- Multi-frame (not as cine though)
.....- Colour (palette and rgb)
.....- Greyscale (window level/width for > 8
.....bits)
.....- 3D position reporting if attributes
.....present



..-Features (of the old code):

...-Proprietary image conversions from ...

....-General Electric CT 9800
....-General Electric CT High Speed Advantage
....(Genesis)
....-General Electric MR Signa 3X/4X
....-General Electric MR Signa 5X (Genesis)
....-General Electric CT Sytec
....-General Electric CT Pace
....-General Electric 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 Magnetom Vision     (native,SPI)

....-Philips MR Gyroscan S15        (native,SPI)

...-Image format support ...

....-DICOM 3 offline file format as per Part 10.
....-Parsing/validating DICOM 3 data sets as
....modules and IODs.
....-Pbmplus extended 16 bit raw format.
....-Raw binary images.

...-Archive retrieval from ...

....-General purpose 9-track and DAT file
....extraction.
....-General Electric CT 9800 9-track.
....-General Electric Genesis DAT.
....-Philips Gyroscan MR S15 native format (ANSI
....format tapes).

...-Miscellaneous image format utilities ...

....-Dump (octal/hex/decimal/byte/short/long/ieee
....float/strings).
....-Patch.
....-Swap bytes.
....-Word to byte shift.
....-Extract 12 bit packed data.
....-Guess unknown byte order, sign, image matrix
....size and offset.
....-Window level/width
....-Vax VMS DUMP output to binary (poor man's
....uudecode).




       - DICOM Conformance Statement sites:


..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - ACCI .
...http://smis.acci.com.au/Documentation.shtml Scalable
...Medical Image Server

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - ADAC Pegasys.
...http://www.adaclabs.com/
...ftp://zen.adaclabs.com/pub/jb/pegX_conformance.ps.Z

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Agfa  - See also Agfa.
...http://www.med.miles.com/ Impax

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - ALI  - See also ALI.
...http://www.alitech.com/RKdicom.html UltraPACS

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Applicare.
...http://www.applicare.nl/toc-dicom.html

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

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Brit Systems.
...http://www.brit.com/dicom.html

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Cemax-Icon.
...http://www.cemax-icon.com/conformance.html

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Dejarnette.
...http://www.dejarnette.com/

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - DicomIt Ultrasound Image
..Manager.
...http://www.dicomit.com/conform.htm

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

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - General Electric.


...       - Tutorial
...       - Introduction
...       - Statements by modality and product


..-  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 - ISG.
...http://www.isgtec.com/dicom.html

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Kodak.
...http://www.kodak.com/hsdHome/dicom/dicom.shtml

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Loral Vantage PACS - See also
..Loral.
...http://www.lmis.com/dicom/main.html

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Medcon.
...http://www.medcon.co.il/

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Merge.
...http://www.merge.com/

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Mitra.
...http://www.mitra.com/

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Nova Microsonics.
...Not yet available electronically
...http://www.nms.com/

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Philips.
...http://www.philips.com/ms/products/ics/dicom/
...ftp://ftp.philips.com/pub/ms/dicom/Conformance_Stmnts/
...dicom@best.ms.philips.com

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Picker.

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


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


..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Santel.
...http://www.santel.lu/SANTEL/projects/html/dicom/ConfClaims.pdf

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Siemens.
...http://www.siemens.de/med/

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - SSGI Apex Server.
...http://www.prowess.com/Products/Apex/cs.html

..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Star Technologies.

...- http://www.star.com/fissconf.htm Film Image Scan
...System
...- http://www.star.com/imsconf.htm Image Management
...System


..-  DICOM Conformance Statement - Survey.
...http://www.otechimg.com/otech/survey.htm

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


       -  DICOM data dictionary:


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

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

..- In dicom3tools_*.tar.gz

...- http://idt.net/~dclunie/dicom3tools.html



       - DICOM draft standards and working documents:


.       - DICOM draft standards at NEMA:

...- ftp://ftp.nema.org/dicom/
...- Publically accessible directories:

...     - ftp://ftp.nema.org/dicom/cp Correction
...     proposals.
...     - ftp://ftp.nema.org/dicom/drafts Working drafts
...     of supplements.
...     - ftp://ftp.nema.org/dicom/comments Supplements in
...     Public Comment phase.
...     - ftp://ftp.nema.org/dicom/ballot Supplements in
...     Letter Ballot phase.


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

...- http://www.xray.hmc.psu.edu/dicom/dicom_home.html
...- ftp://ftp.xray.hmc.psu.edu/dicom_docs/
...-
...ftp://ftp.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/dicom/standards/dicom/
...- ftp://ftp.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/dicom/mirrors/

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

.       - DICOM drafts indexed in PDF and HTML form:

...- http://icmit.mit.edu/dicom/

.       - DICOM draft status and links to latest drafts:
... See DICOM Standard Status.


       - DICOM Education - Otech

..DICOM News service and Seminars

..For information and the latest seminar schedule contact:

..OTech Inc.
..Herman Oosterwijk
..6741 Grant Lane
..Plano TX 75024
..phone 972-618-4167
..fax 972-491-7179
..email Herman Oosterwijk herman@otechimg.com
..email Herman Oosterwijk 103142.1660@compuserve.com
..http://www.otechimg.com


       - DICOM FAQ
..See DICOM FAQ in Part 7.

      - DICOM File Convertors and Viewers:


.       - AdobePhotoshop Plugins (Public Domain) for ACR/NEMA import
.       - ALI WinVIEW
.       - Alice
.       - ImportACCESS Adobe Photoshop Plugin
.       - dicom3tools
.       - Dr Razz
.       - Evergreen Technologies
.       - IMNET Systems
.       - InterFormat
.       - Medical Imaging Technology Associates
.       - MultiView
.       - Papyrus and Osiris
.       - SiteView
.       - UMAB Image Net (Windows)
.       - VisPoint


.- 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://rgssup.analogic.com/alpha2
.       - http://foyt.indyrad.iupui.edu/medres/iurad2.html
.       - http://hmu5.hmu.auckland.ac.nz/dicom_disc95
.       - ftp://ftp.philips.com/pub/ms/dicom/Medical_Images/


       - 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/pacsbroker.html

..Philips Inturis.
..email R.A.vanGeuns@nl.cis.philips.com (Rob van Geuns)
..http http://www.philips.com/ms/solution/connect/index.htm

       - 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

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

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

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

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

       - DICOM Japan:


.       - http://www.jfcr.or.jp/DICOM/ JIRA and JIS at The Cancer
.       Institute, Tokyo


       - DICOM Mailservers


.       - ldicom mailing list for dicom3tools users:

...- to subscribe:          ldicom-subscribe@idt.net
...- to unsubscribe, etc.:  ldicom-unsubscribe@idt.net
...- to send to list:       ldicom@idt.net
...- the relevant human:    ldicom-admin@idt.net


.       - UCDMC-DICOM mailing list for UCDMC DICOM library users:

...- to subscribe:
...owner-ucdmc-dicom@netrad.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
...- to send to list:
...ucdmc-dicom@netrad.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
...- the relevant human:
...owner-ucdmc-dicom@netrad.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu



       - DICOM Papers:


.       - http://constitution.mit.edu/dicomdb.html - white paper on
.       DICOM and databases
.       - http://www.rz.uni-hildesheim.de/~jost0073/dicom/dicom8.htm -
.       DICOM Part 8 Seminar (German language)
.       - http://www.uni-mainz.de/Cardio/incis/abstract/s4_3.htm -
.       Making DICOM work in the Netherlands: INFOMED2
.       - http://www.uni-mainz.de/Cardio/incis/abstract/s1_4.htm -
.       Status of implementation of DICOM in cardiac imaging systems
.       -
.       http://oasis.rad.upenn.edu/~grevera/papers/spie/mi96/www/paper.html
.       - A WWW to DICOM Interface
.       -
.       http://oasis.rad.upenn.edu/~grevera/papers/spie/mi96/gi/paper.html
.       - Implementing desktop image access of GI images
.       - http://www.kard.akh-wien.ac.at/cic95/papers/164.Alcocer.txt -
.       A DICOM implementation for cine-angiography images using image
.       compression techniques
.       - http://stekt.oulu.fi/~sjs/europacs94.html - An evaluation of
.       DICOM-3 implementation experiences


       - DICOM Public Servers:


.       -  ACCI Scalable Medical Image Server.

...- http://smis.acci.com.au/access_smis.shtml
...- The server is not promiscuous and the specified web
...page gives
...instructions on how to gain access..


.       - UC Davis MC Public PACS:

...- http://www-radiology.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/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



.       - Swansea (UK) Central Test Node:

...- Hosted at Singleton Hospital, Swansea, Wales, UK
...- Maintained by D.J.Harvey@swan.ac.uk Dave Harvey.
...- http://xray.swan.ac.uk/ctn - information about the
...service
...- dicom://SWANSEA_CTN@xray.swan.ac.uk:104 - the server
...itself
...- Host is xray.swan.ac.uk (137.44.149.3)
...- Port is the standard well-known DICOM TCP port 104
...- Called Application Entity Title is "SWANSEA_CTN"
...- Calling Application Entity Title is promiscuous but
...try "Client" if problems
...- Software is Linux port of CTN, with image_server
...running with -i
...- C-MOVE is supported by web registration form
... (to set destination AET to presentation address
... mapping)


.       - Johns Hopkins DICOM Image Server:

...- Not yet completed
...- http://www.rad.jhu.edu - information about the
...service



       - DICOM Publications - General:

..Kodak "Understanding DICOM 3.0" catalog # 4B8915, $US 15.00

..For requests from outside the United States, please contact:

..Dave Best
..Eastman Kodak Company
..18325 Waterview Parkway
..Dallas TX 75252
..phone 1-214-454-1518
..fax 1-214-994-4180
..email best@kodak.com

..For requests from the United States, please call:

..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 Implementors' Cookbook"
.       ftp://ftp.philips.com/pub/ms/dicom/DICOM_Information/CookBook.pdf
.       ******Excellent **** Highly recommended

       - 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 - directory:


.       - http://www.merge.com/web96/subpage96/DICOM.html


       - DICOM resources - Chile :):


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


       - DICOM resources - Medx:


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


       - DICOM resources - RSNA:


.       - http://www.rsna.org/practice/DICOM/dicom.html


       - DICOM resources - Santel:


..- http://www.santel.lu/SANTEL/imgrel/imagproc.html Resource
..list
..- http://www.santel.lu/SANTEL/projects/html/dicom/dicom.html
..Tools and presentations


.- DICOM Simple Storage SCP on PC or Mac (receives images):


.       - DigitalJacket for Mac from DesAcc


       - 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


..- OFFIS University of Oldenburg version of CTN

...- http://www.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/
...- ftp://ftp.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/dicom/offis/
...-
...ftp://ftp.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/dicom/offis/software/
...includes Modality Worklist
...-
...ftp://ftp.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/dicom/offis/documents/
...papers include SPIE validation poster


..- Linux port of Mallinckrodt CTN software

...- Not currently on-line
...- 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/homepage.html
..Department Home Page
..- http://www-radiology.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/pacs.html PACS Home
..Page
..- http://www-radiology.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/MCONF.html Conformance
..Statement
..- mhoskin@ucdavis.edu Mark Oskin
..- rlkennedy@ucdavis.edu R.L. Kennedy


       - DICOM Standard Status


...- http://idt.net/~dclunie/dicom-status/status.html
...-
...http://www.merge.com/web96/subpage96/DICOM_standard.html


       - DICOM Technology Transfer - Foresight

..Foresight Science and Technology.

..email Joe Breskin (jbreskin@foresnt.com)
..http  http://www.seeport.com/

       - 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 tutorial - Endoscopy:

..AGSE/DDW 96 Demonstration tutorial


..- http://www.asge.org/dicom/asgdintr.html


       - DICOM Registered Organization Number for a DICOM UID Root:

..See UID - Getting a Registered Organization Number for a DICOM
..UID Root

       - DICOM Ultrasound/Echocardiography - ICMIT:

.       - International Consortium for Medical Imaging Technology

..    - MIT site:

...- http://icmit.mit.edu/
...- pat@constitution.mit.edu Patrick McCormick

..    - Imperial College site:

...- http://dominica.ee.ic.ac.uk/ICMIT/ICMIT.html
...- s.claesen@ic.ac.uk Stefan Claesen




       - DICOM Viewers - See DICOM File Convertors and Viewers

       - DICOM to web gateways - commercial:

..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

..ALI Web Server - See ALI

       - DICOM to web gateways - on the network:


.       - 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



       - NEMA - DICOM standard publishers

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

..phone 703-841-3200

..http://ftp.nema.org/medical/dicom.htm (current in house server
..... ftp is not a typo)
..http://www.nema.org/nema/medical/dicom/ (correct, but not being
..updated)
..ftp://ftp.nema.org/dicom

..http://ftp.nema.org/medical/dicom/meetings/meetings.txt
..Upcoming meetings list

..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

..Another hotel near NEMA headquarters with NEMA Room Block
..rate:

..Holiday Inn
..1900 N. Fort Meyer Drive
..Arlington, VA 22209

..phone 703-807-2000

..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

..Can take the Metro (subway) from National Airport to Rosslyn
..(near NEMA).

       - Netscape ACR/NEMA Plugin


..- http://www.ukrv.de/rv/fedv/plugin/index.html for
..32-bit/Windows


       - Osiris - see Papyrus and Osiris.

       - SNOMED Systematized Nomenclature - DICOM Microglossary


..- http://snomed.org/


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

..ISO Member body list can be found at
..http://http://www.iso.ch/addresse/address.html


.   - ANSI - in US:

..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)

.   - BAKOM - in Switzerland:

..Bundesamt fuer Kommunikation
..BAKOM
..phone +41 (32) 28 5576
..fax   +41 (32) 28 5528

..numeric identifier costs DM 500

.   - COSIRA - in Canada:

..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
..Attention: Meredith Johnston, (613) 234-2155

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

.   - DIN - in Germany:

..Deutsche Industrie Norm
..DIN CERTCO Division
..Frau Krenz
..in Berlin-Tiergarten
..Burggrafenstr. 6
..10787 Berlin

..phone +49 (30) 2601 2953
..fax   +49 (30) 2601 1610

..numeric identifier costs DM 500 (?550)

.."Antrag auf Vergabe einer Registrierungskennzahl (REG) fuer
..Informationsobjekte nach E DIN 66 334"


.- UMAB Image Net Windows DICOM File Viewer (free)


..- http://anchorage.ab.umd.edu/inintro.html



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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