The DICOM Transfer Syntax for Deflated Image Frame Compression encodes a stream of one or more frames of compressed pixel data as Encapsulated Fragments. This Transfer Syntax is identified by a UID of "1.2.840.10008.1.2.8.1".

If the object allows multi-frame images in the pixel data field, then each frame shall be encoded separately.

Each frame shall be encoded​ in one and only one Fragment (see Section 8.2).

The pixel data byte stream of each frame is separately compressed using the Deflate algorithm defined in [RFC1951].

If the Deflate algorithm produces an odd number of bytes then a single trailing NULL byte shall be added after the last byte of the deflated bit stream for each frame.