The DICOM files transfer played a vital role in PACS. Firstly we analyzed the
transfer characters of DICOM files and found out the reasons of time-consuming. Then we
tried to improve the transfer speed of mass amount of DICOM files from two aspects. The
first aspect, one way was to decrease the connection times between the network and
association. The other one was to speed up the files transfer through parallel mode. Next
we designed a novel parallel transfer algorithm for DICOM files based on the task partition
strategy, which took a mechanism of transfer mass files through one connection and a scheme
of centralized dynamic load balancing. At last, the algorithm was implemented in the
Microsoft .net framework 4. The test showed that the parallel transfer algorithm could do
better in parallel capability and also improved the DICOM file transfer efficiency
dramatically.
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