Resources¶
General¶
- Wikipedia.
- The official DICOM standard website.
- NiBabel’s introduction to DICOM.
- DICOM is Easy - wonderful blog dedicated to the DICOM file format and software programming for medical applications.
- DICOM Library - free online medical images, signals or video files sharing and anonymizing service for educational and scientific purposes. Includes a good introduction to the DICOM standard as well as a handy table of official DICOM tags.
- DICOM Standard Browser - an online DICOM encyclopedia.
Other¶
- The first step for neuroimaging data analysis: DICOM to NIfTI conversion [1] - contains valuable information about the way different vendors store data in the DICOM format (PDF).
- Siemens mosaic format - Excellent NiBabel article.
- Information on GE private tags can be found in the Discovery VCT DICOM Conformance Statement as well as in the GE MR DICOM Conformance Statement.
- NA-MIC Wiki page on DICOM for DWI and DTI - vendor-specific information about DICOM and DWI/DTI data encoding.
[1] | Li, X., Morgan, P. S., Ashburner, J., Smith, J., & Rorden, C. (2016). The first step for neuroimaging data analysis: DICOM to NIfTI conversion. Journal of neuroscience methods, 264, 47-56. |