Introduction

Hi Community,

This article is aimed at developers implementing DICOM productions, specifically for cases with third-party endpoints that cannot handle the DIMSE timeout themselves.

For DICOM applications, the DIMSE timeout is a maximum time to wait for the next DICOM request (-RQ) or a response to a request (-RSP), after an association has been established. Unlike the ARTIM (association establishment) and TXTIM (data transfer) timeouts, the DIMSE timeout lives at a higher level than individual PDUs, with the application-level request/response logic.