6 Overview of The Content of The DICOM Standard
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# 6 Overview of The Content of The DICOM Standard

## 6.1 Document Structure

DICOM consists of the following parts:

- PS3.1: Introduction and Overview (this document)

- PS3.2: Conformance

- PS3.3: Information Object Definitions

- PS3.4: Service Class Specifications

- PS3.5: Data Structures and Encoding

- PS3.6: Data Dictionary

- PS3.7: Message Exchange

- PS3.8: Network Communication Support for Message Exchange

- PS3.9: Retired

- PS3.10: Media Storage and File Format for Media Interchange

- PS3.11: Media Storage Application Profiles

- PS3.12: Formats and Physical Media

- PS3.13: Retired

- PS3.14: Grayscale Standard Display Function

- PS3.15: Security and System Management Profiles

- PS3.16: Content Mapping Resource

- PS3.17: Explanatory Information

- PS3.18: Web Services

- PS3.19: Application Hosting

- PS3.20: Transformation of DICOM to and from HL7 Standards

These parts of the Standard are related but independent documents. A brief description of each Part is provided in this section.

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