National Electrical Manufacturers Association Standard PS3: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Part 3.4 v2024b

This 482-page document specifies the set of service class definitions of the DICOM standard. Service class definitions are abstract definitions of real-world activities applicable to communication of digital medical information. For each service class definition, this document specifies:

- the semantic description of the activities of the Service Class Definition

- the group of DIMSE Service operations and notifications applicable to the Service Class Description

- one or more functionally-related Service-Object Pair (SOP) Classes that are supported by the Service Class Definition and may be performed between peer DICOM Application Entities

- the relationship of each SOP class to applicable Information Object Definitions specified in PS3.3 Information object definitions.

This document is one of 22 parts to the DICOM standard.

Main sections:

- Scope and field of application

- Normative references

- Definitions

- Symbols and abbreviations

- Conventions

- DICOM information model

- DICOM model of the real world

- Coded entry usage in service specifications

- 37 service classes and SOP classes