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DICOMweb is a term applied to the family of RESTful DICOM services defined for sending, retrieving and querying for medical images and related information. The intent is to provide a light-weight mobile device and web browser friendly mechanism for accessing images, which can be implemented by developers who have minimal familiarity with the DICOM standard and which uses consumer application friendly mechanisms like http, JSON and media types (like "image/jpeg") to the maximum extent possible. The standard is formally defined in DICOM PS3.18 Web Services. The family consists primarily of: