Preface

This guide describes how to use the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) feature of Oracle Multimedia, which ships with Oracle Database.

In Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1), the name Oracle interMedia was changed to Oracle Multimedia. The feature remains the same, only the name has changed. References to Oracle interMedia were replaced with Oracle Multimedia although, some references to Oracle interMedia or interMedia might still appear in graphical user interfaces, code examples, and related documents in the Documentation Library for Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2).

This information in this guide is organized as follows:

The sample code in this guide might not match the code shipped with Oracle Database Examples media. To run examples that are shipped with Oracle Database Examples media on your system, use the files provided with Oracle Database Examples media. Do not attempt to compile and run the code in this guide.

For information about Oracle Database and the features and options that are available to you, see Oracle Database New Features Guide.

Audience

This guide is for application developers and administrators who are interested in storing, retrieving, and manipulating DICOM format medical images and other objects in a database.

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Related Documents

For more information about using Oracle Multimedia in a development environment, see the following documents in the Oracle Database Online Documentation Library:

• Oracle Multimedia Reference

• Oracle Multimedia User's Guide

• Oracle Call Interface Programmer's Guide

• Oracle Database Advanced Application Developer's Guide

• Oracle Database SecureFiles and Large Objects Developer's Guide

• Oracle Database Concepts

• Oracle Database PL/SQL Language Reference

• Oracle Database SQL Language Reference

• Oracle Database Error Messages

• Oracle Database Java Developer's Guide

• Oracle Database JDBC Developer's Guide and Reference

For more information about using XML, see Oracle XML DB Developer's Guide.

For more information about medical imaging standards, see the documentation provided by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA).

For reference information about Oracle Multimedia Java classes in Javadoc format, see the following Oracle API documentation (also known as Javadoc) in the Oracle Database Online Documentation Library:

• Oracle Multimedia DICOM Java API Reference

• Oracle Multimedia Java API Reference

• Oracle Multimedia Servlets and JSP Java API Reference

• Oracle Multimedia Mid-Tier Java API Reference

For more information about Java, including information about Java Advanced Imaging (JAI), see the API documentation provided by Oracle.

Many of the examples in this guide are based on the database user PM and the tables MEDICAL_IMAGE_OBJ and MEDICAL_IMAGE_REL, which are created in the Product Media (PM) sample schema. See Oracle Database Sample Schemas for information about how these schemas are installed and how you can use them.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this guide:

Syntax Descriptions

Syntax descriptions are provided in this guide for various SQL, PL/SQL, or other command-line constructs in graphic form or Backus Naur Form (BNF). See Oracle Database SQL Reference for information about how to interpret these descriptions.