Application Protocol for a DICOM Real Time Collaborative System

This work presents a new generic application protocol for DICOM conformant medical collaborative systems. It implements simple techniques for data flow and encapsulation between two or more clients and a single server, using an extension of the DICOM Communication Layer within a server or a client as a session manager. The protocol was tested working over two image viewer clients remotely distributed and the synchronization level shows that collaborative systems can be executed in real time.