Enhanced DICOM Profile - Brief Proposal

<<Describe proposal for one or more Content Profiles based on the Enhanced IODs for CT, MR, XR and PET>>

Issues Needing Addressing

Downgrading to Old Objects

How should a PACS handle it if the modality provided Enhanced but a client needed old style. Creation of the old objects is not so bad, and could be triggered based on the SOPs in the association for the C-STORE. The problem is that before the C-STORE there is probably a C-FIND and when you don't know what the client wants, how many series do you tell them there is. One Enhanced, but if they want Old, there are many situations you would want/need to split into multiple series. Similar when they query for image instances.

Upgrading to New Objects

Taking old objects and generating enhanced is even harder since there are required fields that would need to be filled and the necessary information is likely not present.