Supplement 209: Revision of the DICOM Conformance Statement

This resource redefines the content and structure of the DICOM Conformance Statement to better meet the needs of all user groups, better facilitate comparability of different products’ DICOM functionality, provide essential information in tables, avoid ambiguities/inconsistencies between different vendor documentations, address functionalities not currently documented and provide a detailed template that could be used by vendors for populating information.

Main sections:

· Scope and field of application

· Purpose of a conformance statement

· Conformance requirements

· Implementation model

· Service and interoperability description

· Configuration

· Network and media communication details

· Security

· Information object definitions

· Structured report content encoding

· Security details

· Mapping of attributes

· Code set usage