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What is Libdicom?

Libdicom is a portable library to facilitate importing and exporting of DICOM files.

What is DICOM?

DICOM stands for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine. It's a well known standard in medicine and radiology in particular. It describes network communications, ... There is a DICOM home page on the internet.

Features of Libdicom

DICOM networking

The network daemons are called Service Class Provider (SCP) and the clients are called Service Class Users (SCU). There are some free implementation of SCP's and SCU's:

DICOM viewers

There are some DICOM viewers freely available:

Xdicom
Xrad is a libdicom based portable viewer for workstations.
Osiris
Osiris is available for PC, MacIntosh and workstations.
Dr. Razz
Dr. Razz is available for MacIntosh only.

Libdicom Manual

The libdicom manual is written in html. An online version is available here.