Printing in DICOM is unlike any other printing system used in the world, with no relation to PDF, network print protocols etc. Not surprisingly, it uses standard DICOM mechanisms, and although it is one of the original 1993 services, it is probably one of the most complex services in the standard!

DicomObjects does not have direct, simple ways to create DICOM overlays.

Common use case and restrictions It is common that users need to send an entire DICOM study that contains hundreds (or even thousands) of images to a remote DICOM node.

Only the mandatory elements (and one or two others we’ve been talked into adding) are put into the DICOMDIR by the AddToDirectory (.

A sequence in DICOM is represented by DicomDataSets Object in DicomObjects and a sequence item is represented by a DicomDataSet Object.

Hounsfield Units (HU) are used in CT images it is a measure of radio-density, calibrated to distilled water and free air.