Development of a DICOM server for the reception and storage of medical images in digital format

Recent progress in digital medical imaging has ineluctably created a need for efficient management, for a mechanism that is able to gather and store all the modalities of medical images, regardless of the device that generated them. The DICOM standard defines a protocol for the communication between such devices. This article presents a software server that communicates with DICOM compatible machines and stores their studies. It has been validated and tested in real environments.