Is it possible to get patient information from DICOM Print? Some developers, faced by systems with DICOM Print and no DICOM C-STORE have wondered whether that “DICOM output” could be used to capture images to store in a PACS.

A Basic Film Box is a Normalised Instance which represents a particular sheet of film to be created during Printing as requested by the SCU.

Printers differ greatly in their default behaviour for smoothing/interpolating pixel data. DICOM does provide a mechanism for this to be controlled by the print SCU, but printers do vary in how they interpret and implement this functionality.

Many people wish to “merge” images to make print formats which the printer does not support, and this is possible, but a lot more work than simply asking the printer to do it for you!

A Basic Film Session is a Normalised Instance which represents the whole session of Printing as requested by the SCU.