DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is a protocol that allows for the sharing of images and other medical information. DICOM permits PACS, radiology information systems and more medical imaging systems to connect with and pass data to systems at other healthcare facilities.
dilatation and curettage - a surgical procedure usually performed under local anesthesia in which the cervix is dilated and the endometrial lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet; performed to obtain tissue samples or to stop prolonged bleeding or to remove small tumors or to remove fragments of placenta after childbirth or as a method of abortion
A dilation is a transformation that produces an image that is the same shape as the original, but is a different size. The description of a dilation includes the scale factor (constant of dilation) and the center of the dilation. The center of a dilation is a fixed point in the plane about which all points are expanded or contracted.