Essence Flow - Bryant McGill

# Essence Flow **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Domain:** Real-Time Media / Clinical Transport **Doc Type:** Technical Concept Node **Maturity:** Established Media Architecture **Related:** [[SMPTE ST 2110]], [[DICOM Real-Time Video]], [[Rendition Metadata]] --- ## Definition An **essence flow** is a network stream carrying one primary media type—such as uncompressed video or audio—separately from other media and metadata. In DICOM-RTV, corresponding metadata flows identify and describe the clinical meaning of the transported essence. ## Architectural role Separation improves routing and processing flexibility, but a higher-level binding and synchronized clock are required to reconstruct one coherent clinical rendition. ## Neurotech cluster route **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Source articles:** [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] ## Relationships [[wiki/Essence Flow|Essence Flow]] is related to [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] through [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]].  This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material.  ## Related Work in the Corpus  - In [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]], ****4\. Real-Time Communication and Clinical Imaging Infrastructure**** provides the narrative context for **Essence Flow**: Concept route: DICOM · DICOM Working Group 32 · DICOM-RTV · RTP · SMPTE ST 2110 · PTP · essence flows · rendition metadata.