DICOM in Radiotherapy

Noticeable development in achieving data from patients is acquired by means of designing a system that connects these systems: imaging, archive and monitoring systems. When several imaging devices work based on DICOM standard; they can connect to each other without any interface. There are many applications for DICOM standard in radiotherapy; however its main usage is in imaging. It has other applications such as RT Structure Set, RT Dose, RT Plan and RT Brachy Treatment. "nNow DICOM is a complete and widespread standard to use in radiotherapy. Most of the radiotherapy machines have ability to use DICOM. Before installing a new Linac, it is necessary to predict all aspects of DICOM standard in this device. Therefore, as regards to entrance of 12 Linac to Iran, it is important to have enough knowledge about it. This article is a review about development of DICOM in radiotherapy. We try to stress on DICOM applications and abstain from technological agenda.