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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
- Libdicom can handle DICOM files that are compressed with gzip or with
UNIX compress
- Support for DICOM files with or without Metaheader
- Unknown value representation (VR=UN) is nicely handled
- Easy to use interfaces.
- Tracking of hierarchical sequence structures.
- Handling of encapsulated data.
- Support for multi-frame images
- Support for all photometric interpretations
- Automatic endian convertion
- Automatic multiple value calculation and splitting
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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.