DICOM Controlled Terminology

Prefix

dicom

Keywords

anatomy biomedical science medicine ontology

Version

2024b_20240331

Links

Homepage OWL

Contact

David Clunie   0000-0002-2406-1145

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in DICOM Controlled Terminology should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

109082   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from DICOM Controlled Terminology should match this regular expression:
^dicom:\d+$

Example CURIE

dicom:109082

Publications

• 2013 Multi-series DICOM: an extension of DICOM that stores a whole study in a single object
• 2005 DICOM demystified: a review of digital file formats and their use in radiological practice

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection

FHIR External Terminologies

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 4 mappings to external registries for this resource with 4 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 109082 is used to demonstrate the providers available for DICOM Controlled Terminology. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.