DICOM PS3.3 2025a - Information Object Definitions

A.59.3 Enhanced US Volume IOD Module Table

Table A.59-1 specifies the Modules of the Enhanced US Volume IOD.

Table A.59-1. Enhanced US Volume IOD Modules

IE

Module

Reference

Usage

Patient

Patient

C.7.1.1

M

Clinical Trial Subject

C.7.1.3

U

Study

General Study

C.7.2.1

M

Patient Study

C.7.2.2

U

Clinical Trial Study

C.7.2.3

U

Series

General Series

C.7.3.1

M

Enhanced US Series

C.8.24.1

M

Clinical Trial Series

C.7.3.2

U

Frame of Reference

Frame of Reference

C.7.4.1

M

Ultrasound Frame of Reference

C.8.24.2

M

Synchronization

C.7.4.2

M

Equipment

General Equipment

C.7.5.1

M

Enhanced General Equipment

C.7.5.2

M

Acquisition

General Acquisition

C.7.10.1

M

Image

General Image

C.7.6.1

M

General Reference

C.12.4

U

Image Pixel

C.7.6.3

M

Enhanced Contrast/Bolus

C.7.6.4b

C - Required if contrast media was applied. See Section A.59.3.1.2 for baseline context group ID.

Multi-frame Functional Groups

C.7.6.16

M

Multi-frame Dimension

C.7.6.17

M

Cardiac Synchronization

C.7.6.18.1

C - Required if cardiac synchronization was applied.

Respiratory Synchronization

C.7.6.18.2

C - Required if respiratory synchronization was applied.

Device

C.7.6.12

U

Acquisition Context

C.7.6.14

M

Specimen

C.7.6.22

U

Enhanced Palette Color Lookup Table

C.7.6.23

U

Enhanced US Image

C.8.24.3

M

IVUS Image

C.8.24.4

C - Required if Modality = IVUS

Excluded Intervals

C.8.24.5

U

ICC Profile

C.11.15

U

SOP Common

C.12.1

M

Common Instance Reference

C.12.2

U

Frame Extraction

C.12.3

C - Required if the SOP Instance was created in response to a Frame-Level retrieve request


A.59.3.1 Enhanced US Volume IOD Content Constraints

A.59.3.1.1 Associated Physiological Waveforms

The Acquisition Time Synchronized (0018,1800) Attribute shall have a value of 'Y' if associated physiological waveforms are linked to the Enhanced US Volume. As described in the Synchronization Module, the same value of Synchronization Frame of Reference UID (0020,0200) is shared between the Waveform and Enhanced US Instances to indicate a common temporal Frame of Reference for Acquisition DateTime (0008,002A) values in the waveform and Enhanced US Instances. Further, Frame Reference DateTime (0018,9151) may be used in optimizing alignment between the displayed image and displayed physiological waveforms.

In the case of gated acquisition in which information from multiple events (such as ECG beats) are used to create sub-volumes that are "spliced" or "interleaved" together to form the volume data, the Excluded Intervals Module describes the timing of each of the constituent sub-volumes for correlation with the physio waveform.

Note

It is recommended that the Waveform Annotation Module in the General ECG IOD be used to indicate the times of the R-wave events within the acquisition duration. This allows the viewing application to be able to mark those R-R intervals that contributed to the acquisition of the Enhanced US Volume.

A.59.3.1.2 Contrast

For Contrast/Bolus Agent Sequence (0018,0012) in the Enhanced Contrast/Bolus Module BCID 12030 “Ultrasound Contrast/Bolus Agent” may be used.

DICOM PS3.3 2025a - Information Object Definitions