Supplement 223: Repository Query, Inventory IOD, and Related Services

This resource introduces several service-object pair (SOP) classes and an information object definition (IOD) related to production and exchange of medical imaging inventories. These include a new repository query SOP class to obtain an inventory of a repository system and a composite inventory IOD that is the equivalent persistent object instantiation of such an inventory. They also include an inventory creation SOP class to initiate asynchronous creation of inventory SOP instances and SOP classes to transfer, query and retrieve inventory SOP instances.

Main sections:

· Scope and field of application

· DICOM PS 3.2: Conformance

· DICOM PS 3.3: Information object definitions

· DICOM PS 3.4: Service class specifications

· DICOM PS 3.5: Data structures and encoding

· DICOM PS 3.6: Data dictionary

· DICOM PS 3.7: Message exchange

· D ICOM PS 3.16: Content mapping resource

· DICOM PS 3.17: Explanatory information

· DICOM PS 3.18: Web services