What's New in Oracle Multimedia DICOM

This document summarizes the new features introduced in the current release.

New Features for Release 11.2

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) includes new features for Oracle Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide.

The following DICOM enhancements have been added:

• DICOM to AVI conversion (Section D.5)

• RLE compression (Section D.1.3)

• YBR photometric interpretation (Table D-1)

• Encoding of multibit monochrome raw content (Table D-2)

• Recursive calls within constraint definitions (Section 12.2.2.4)

• Specifying a character set to override the default (ISO-IR 6 or ASCII) when the Specific Character Set attribute (0008,0005) is missing (Example B-8, see SPECIFIC_CHARACTER_SET)

• Oracle Data Pump Utilities support for the DICOM data model repository (Section 9.9)

• Importing and exporting of documents in the DICOM data model repository (Chapter 10)

• Limiting the list of DICOM attributes to be extracted by the setProperties( ) method to improve performance and reduce storage requirements (Section 3.11)

• DEFLATE compression format (Section D.1.1)

• Oracle Multimedia Mid-Tier Java API, which enables users to write Java applications for extracting DICOM metadata outside of Oracle Database, facilitates the extraction of DICOM metadata attributes on which data is partitioned before the data is loaded into the database. (Section 2.9)

• DICOM value locator type syntax to enable users to reference DICOM metadata tags used in the DICOM configuration documents and that refer to private attribute definers (Chapter 10)

• Wildcard character syntax to enable iteration through all the components in a single predicate (Section 12.2.2.5 and General Format for DICOM Value Locators)