DICOMweb URL Builder

The request, and the DIMSE operation it corresponds to, side by side.

Everything on this page runs in your browser. No request is sent anywhere - not to the server you name, and not to us. The UIDs you type stay on this page.

This describes the DICOM standard, not any particular product. Whether a given server implements a given resource is in that server's own conformance statement - including ours, which covers classic DIMSE only and says so. What this page is for is the correspondence: if you know C-FIND and are meeting QIDO-RS, most of what you already know still applies, and the handful of things that do not are listed under every result.

The request

Service

Level

Server root Whatever comes before /studies. Not contacted.

Study Instance UID

Series Instance UID

SOP Instance UID

Matching keys and parameters

DICOMweb

What you would send over HTTP.

GET

The DIMSE equivalent

The same request over classic DIMSE.

Where the correspondence breaks

These are the differences that change what you have to do, rather than only how the request is written.

The standard also allows searches that do not walk down from a study - /series and /instances at the root, and /studies/{uid}/instances skipping the series. This page builds the three-level walk, which is the common case; the others take the same matching keys and the same correspondence.

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