DICOM Attachment Handler Properties

The DICOM Attachment Handler does not have properties to configure. When used, the handler automatically takes the incoming DICOM data and extract all pixel data into one or more attachments. The resulting raw data will not have an attachment replacement token, but instead will be the Base64 encoded representation of the DICOM message without the pixel data. If the DICOM Data Type is used in a filter / transformer, it will automatically serialize this Base64 data into an XML message containing all header / tag data.

Because there is no attachment replacement token, to reattach DICOM messages on the destination connector side, a special token is used:

• ${DICOMMESSAGE}

This indicates to the destination connector that the encoded data should be merged with any pixel data attachments into a final binary representation before being dispatched to the external system.