Category Archives: DICOM

New DICOM Structured Reporting IODs

Following our plan to always keep the DCMTK up-to-date, at least with regards to the Data Dictionary, the list of SOP Classes and Transfer Syntaxes as well as the Directory Record Types, I recently also added support for the latest … Continue reading →

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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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