The requesting system: application capable of making Web Service requests. System is not capable of decoding DICOM PS3.10 formats. The system is capable of processing images in JPEG or other more generic formats.
Reference information may come in a wide variety of forms. It is expected to include at least the Study UID, Series UID, and Individual SOP instance information. This may be encoded as part of an HL7 reference within a CDA document, a DICOM SOP Instance reference, or other formats.
Request information
Requested Data set
Study UID
List of Series UID
List of SOP Instance UIDs
Desired format and subset information
JPEG/PDF/etc. selection, subset area, presentation information
Frame selection for subsets of multi-frame objects
What should be done for requests where image shapes and SOP classes vary and a subset is requested?
Anonymize or not.
Response information
JPEGs
Should JPEGs include tag information within the JPEG? If so, what information?
How will JPEGs be related to multi-frame and multi-instance requests? Order? Tag?
PDFs
How will PDFs be related to multi-frame and multi-instance requests? One per frame? One per instance? One for entire set?
Other encodings?