Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to
Google Cloud,
create an account to evaluate how our products perform in
real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to
run, test, and deploy workloads.
In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page,
select or create a Google Cloud project.
In the Region field, select us-central1, and then click Create.
The new dataset appears in the list of datasets in the browser.
Store a DICOM instance
This section shows how to complete the following tasks:
Create a DICOM store.
Import a DICOM instance into the DICOM store.
The Cloud Healthcare API implements the
DICOMweb
standard to store and access medical imaging data.
The Google Cloud console does not support DICOMweb
transactions, such as viewing or retrieving instances.
Create a DICOM store
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Healthcare API Browser page:
To track the status of the import, click the
Operations tab.
If you encounter any errors, click Actions, and then click View details in Cloud Logging.
Now that you've stored a DICOM instance in the Cloud Healthcare API,
clean up the resources you created in this quickstart, or
continue to What's next for information on next steps, such as how
to search for or retrieve DICOM images.
Clean up
To avoid incurring charges to your Google Cloud account for
the resources used on this page, follow these steps.
If you no longer need the dataset and DICOM store created in this quickstart, you
can delete the dataset. Deleting a dataset permanently deletes the dataset and
any DICOM stores it contains.
To delete a dataset, complete the following steps:
Click Browser to go to the Datasets page.
Click Actions next to the dataset, and then click Delete.
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Create a Cloud Healthcare API dataset.\n2. Create a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) store inside the dataset.\n3. Store a DICOM instance in the DICOM store.\n4. Clean up to avoid billing charges.\n\n*** ** * ** ***\n\nTo follow step-by-step guidance for this task directly in the\nGoogle Cloud console, click **Guide me**:\n\n[Guide me](https://console.cloud.google.com/freetrial?redirectPath=/home/dashboard?tutorial=healthcare-api__dicom-quickstart-console)\n\n*** ** * ** ***\n\nBefore you begin\n----------------\n\n- Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, [create an account](https://console.cloud.google.com/freetrial) to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.\n- In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page,\n select or create a Google Cloud project.\n\n | **Note**: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.\n\n [Go to project selector](https://console.cloud.google.com/projectselector2/home/dashboard)\n-\n [Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project](/billing/docs/how-to/verify-billing-enabled#confirm_billing_is_enabled_on_a_project).\n\n-\n\n\n Enable the Cloud Healthcare API.\n\n\n [Enable the API](https://console.cloud.google.com/flows/enableapi?apiid=healthcare.googleapis.com)\n\n- In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page,\n select or create a Google Cloud project.\n\n | **Note**: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.\n\n [Go to project selector](https://console.cloud.google.com/projectselector2/home/dashboard)\n-\n [Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project](/billing/docs/how-to/verify-billing-enabled#confirm_billing_is_enabled_on_a_project).\n\n-\n\n\n Enable the Cloud Healthcare API.\n\n\n [Enable the API](https://console.cloud.google.com/flows/enableapi?apiid=healthcare.googleapis.com)\n\n1.\n\n\n Enable the Cloud Healthcare API.\n\n\n [Enable the API](https://console.cloud.google.com/flows/enableapi?apiid=healthcare.googleapis.com)\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\nCreate a dataset\n----------------\n\n\n*Datasets* contain data stores, and data stores contain healthcare data.\nTo use the Cloud Healthcare API, you must create at least one dataset.\n\n1. In the Google Cloud console, click **Healthcare** to go to the **Datasets** page.\n\n\n [Go to Browser](https://console.cloud.google.com/healthcare/browser)\n2. Click **Create dataset**.\n\n3. In the **Name** field, enter `my-dataset`.\n\n4. In the **Region** field, select `us-central1`, and then click **Create**.\n\nThe new dataset appears in the list of datasets in the browser.\n\nStore a DICOM instance\n----------------------\n\nThis section shows how to complete the following tasks:\n\n1. Create a DICOM store.\n2. Import a DICOM instance into the DICOM store.\n\nThe Cloud Healthcare API implements the\n[DICOMweb](https://www.dicomstandard.org/using/dicomweb)\nstandard to store and access medical imaging data.\nThe Google Cloud console does not support DICOMweb\ntransactions, such as viewing or retrieving instances.\n\n### Create a DICOM store\n\n1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Healthcare API **Browser** page:\n\n [Go to Browser](https://console.cloud.google.com/healthcare/browser)\n\n\u003c!-- --\u003e\n\n1. Click the `my-dataset` dataset.\n\n2. Click **Create data store**.\n\n3. In the **Type** menu, select **DICOM**.\n\n4. In the **ID** field, enter `my-dicom-store`.\n\n5. Click **Create**.\n\nThe `my-dicom-store` DICOM store displays in the **Data stores** page in the `my-dataset` dataset.\n\n### Import a DICOM instance\n\nSample DICOM data is available in the `gs://gcs-public-data--healthcare-nih-chest-xray`\nCloud Storage bucket.\n\n1. In the list of data stores in your dataset, find the `my-dicom-store` DICOM store,\n and then select the **Actions** menu.\n\n2. Select **Import**.\n\n3. In the **Import to DICOM store** page, select the **Advanced options** menu,\n and then select **Override Cloud Storage path**.\n\n4. In the **Location**\n field under the **Advanced options** menu, enter the following location of\n the DICOM instance you are importing:\n\n gs://gcs-public-data--healthcare-nih-chest-xray/dicom/00000001_000.dcm\n\n5. Click **Import**.\n\n6. To track the status of the import, click the\n **Operations** tab.\n\n If you encounter any errors, click **Actions**, and then click **View details in Cloud Logging**.\n\nNow that you've stored a DICOM instance in the Cloud Healthcare API,\n[clean up](#clean-up) the resources you created in this quickstart, or\ncontinue to [What's next](#whats-next) for information on next steps, such as how\nto search for or retrieve DICOM images.\n\nClean up\n--------\n\n\nTo avoid incurring charges to your Google Cloud account for\nthe resources used on this page, follow these steps.\n\nIf you no longer need the dataset and DICOM store created in this quickstart, you\ncan delete the dataset. Deleting a dataset permanently deletes the dataset and\nany DICOM stores it contains.\n\nTo delete a dataset, complete the following steps:\n\n1. Click **Browser** to go to the **Datasets** page.\n2. Click **Actions** next to the dataset, and then click **Delete**.\n3. Confirm your deletion.\n\nOr you can [delete the project](https://console.cloud.google.com/cloud-resource-manager) that you created.\n\nWhat's next\n-----------\n\nContinue to the [DICOM guide](/healthcare-api/docs/how-tos#dicom-guide) to read topics such as\nthe following:\n\n- [Creating and managing DICOM stores](/healthcare-api/docs/how-tos/dicom)\n- [Connecting a PACS to the Cloud Healthcare API](/healthcare-api/docs/how-tos/dicom-connect-pacs)\n- [Using the DICOMweb standard](/healthcare-api/docs/how-tos/dicomweb)\n- [Importing and exporting DICOM data using Cloud Storage](/healthcare-api/docs/how-tos/dicom-import-export)\n\nSee the [DICOM conformance statement](/healthcare-api/docs/dicom) for information on\nhow the Cloud Healthcare API implements the DICOMweb standard."]]
