In medical environments, DICOM Standards facilitate interoperability of medical imaging systems, related images, and related information. They define protocols for exchanging digital information between medical imaging equipment (such as CT and MR scanners) and other systems, with strong emphasis on diagnostic medical imaging as practiced in radiology, cardiology and related disciplines.

LEADTOOLS DICOM Communications provides complete support for DICOM Communications, including all Service Classes (Verification, Storage, Query/Retrieve, Patient Management, etc.), and contains high-level communications functions simplifying the creation of DICOM client/server applications. Communications Features include: • Support for TCP/IP multiple clients and multiple servers, working in Asynchronous or Synchronous mode. • High-level functions for initiating and terminating Associations (connections between DICOM applications), automating the process of filling out PDU structures (Protocol Data Units). • Automatic and transparent conversion of DICOM Data Sets to/from the specific Transfer Syntax required by the associated Application Entities (the connected DICOM client(s) and server(s)). • High-level functions that automate sending DICOM Request and Response Command Sets (Services), greatly simplifying the process of coding application communications and much more.