The DICOM Standard is managed by the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance - a division of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association.

DICOM^® Publications and DICOMWeb™ Publications are published by and copyright owned by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association.

Title	Format (see Key below)
	PDF	HTML	CHTML	DOCX	ODT	XML
DICOM Part 1: Introduction and Overview
DICOM Part 2: Conformance
DICOM Part 3: Information Object Definitions
DICOM Part 4: Service Class Specifications
DICOM Part 5: Data Structures and Encoding
DICOM Part 6: Data Dictionary
DICOM Part 7: Message Exchange
DICOM Part 8: Network Communication Support for Message Exchange
DICOM Part 10: Media Storage and File Format for Media Interchange
DICOM Part 11: Media Storage Application Profiles
DICOM Part 12: Media Formats and Physical Media for Media Interchange
DICOM Part 14: Grayscale Standard Display Function
DICOM Part 15: Security and System Management Profiles
DICOM Part 16: Content Mapping Resource
DICOM Part 17: Explanatory Information
DICOM Part 18: Web Services
DICOM Part 19: Application Hosting
DICOM Part 20: Imaging Reports using HL7 Clinical Document Architecture
DICOM Part 21: Transformations between DICOM and other Representations
DICOM Part 22: Real-Time Communication
DICOM Parts 1-22: Bulk Download	Zip file for each format

DICOM is updated and republished several times per year.  The links on this page include "current" in the filepath and will always resolve to the current edition.

KEY: Each Part is published in multiple formats:

• PDF - good for printing and folder-based search (Adobe)
• HTML - one page per part, good for fast linking
• CHTML - Chunked HTML, smaller pages, loads faster
• DOCX - MS Word, good for extracting text for editing
• ODT - OpenDoc, good for XML-based editing
• XML - good for machine readability, e.g. self-updating validators