DICOM 1 article

DICOM, or Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, is a standard for storing, transmitting and describing medical imaging data together with structured metadata. In dentistry it is especially relevant to CBCT and other imaging systems that exchange studies with viewing software, archives or planning applications. DICOM defines image objects and communication conventions rather than the clinical interpretation of the images. It differs from formats such as STL, which represent three-dimensional surface geometry without the same medical-imaging metadata framework.