A DICOM SOP class is a combination of a DICOM service command (DIMSE) and an information object, or a Service Object Pair (SOP). The composite service commands services start with the letter C. The Composite commands are: The composite commands operate on objects that are composed of several real world entities. A good example is an image, a composite object that contains information about the patient (name, ID, birth date, sex), equipment it was generated from (manufacturer, model number), the study it belongs to (Study ID) and the pixel data itself. |