New Digital Pathology DICOM Standards Will Expand Pathologists’ Use of Whole Slide Images

Clinical pathology laboratories will soon archive digital pathology images in their hospitals’ PACS Digital pathology moves one step forward toward true “plug and play” with the recent approval of the DICOM supplement 145. These are the technical specifications that support whole-slide digital pathology images. Approval of these standards now makes it possible for clinical laboratories and pathology groups to store digital pathology images in a form that is compatible with the same DICOM...
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