The full form of DICOM is Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine. It’s used on Technology ,Medical in Worldwide

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a standard used in Medical Imaging. It defines the formats for medical images that can be exchanged with the data and quality necessary for clinical use.

DICOM stands for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine. DICOM is a standard that establishes rules that allow medical images and associated information to be exchanged between imaging equipment from different vendors, computers, and hospitals. A computed tomography (CT) scanner produced by vendor A and a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner produced by vendor B can send images to a PACS from vendor C using DICOM as a common language. In addition to storing image information, other DICOM standard services include query/retrieve, print management, scheduling of acquisition and notification of completion, and security profiles.

DICOM stands for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine and is an organization founded in 1983 to create a standard method for the transmission of medical images and their associated information across all fields of medicine. For ophthalmology, Working Group 9 (WG-9) of DICOM is a formal part of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Until recently, the work of WG-9 has focused on creating standards for fundus, anterior-segment, and external ophthalmic photography, resulting in DICOM Supplement 91 Ophthalmic Photography Image SOP Classes, and on OCT imaging in DICOM Supplement 110: Ophthalmic Tomography Image Storage SOP^53,54 (http://medical.nema.org).

DICOM standards build as much as possible upon other standards. For example, DICOM does not prescribe an image compression standard. Images stored as DICOM images can contain the actual image data. A typical example of this is a JPEG image. DICOM 91 and 110 standardize how metadata for an image, such as patient and visit data, acquisition modes and camera settings, compression settings and data formats, and clinical interpretation, is stored as an integral part of the image.