In a DICOM store in the Cloud Healthcare API. The DICOM store is named idc-store,
and is in a Cloud Healthcare API dataset named idc in the nci-idc-data
Google Cloud project. To request access to the IDC datasets, complete the
NCI Imaging Data Commons Access Form.
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