Category Archives: DICOM

DICOM training course in September 2013

The next DICOM training course in English language takes place from 10 to 12 September 2013 in Frankfurt, Germany. As usual, the two-day DICOM Intensive Course is followed by the one-day DCMTK Course. For further questions on the offered training … Continue reading

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Ninth DCMTK snapshot version 3.6.1

Today, a new development snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available. This is the ninth snapshot after the official release of version 3.6.0. Again, a couple of minor issues have been fixed that were detected after the publication of … Continue reading

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Eighth DCMTK snapshot version 3.6.1

Today, a new development snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available. This is the eighth snapshot after the official release of version 3.6.0. Again, a couple of minor issues have been fixed that were detected after the publication of the previous … Continue reading

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Open vs. closed standards

Today, I read a very interesting article from David Clunie on “open vs. closed standards in healthcare IT”. The short version is: HL7 is a closed standard, unlike the DICOM standard, which requires no fee for implementation and which, therefore, can … Continue reading

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DCMRT in public DCMTK source code repository

Today, we have moved the current development version of DCMRT, the “new” DCMTK module for radiation therapy, to the public source code repository. The so-called medium-level API is still missing, but we are working on it with high priority. We hope … Continue reading

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