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Open vs. closed standards

Posted on 2012-07-24 by Jörg Riesmeier

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

Posted on 2012-06-04 by Jörg Riesmeier

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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Seventh DCMTK snapshot version 3.6.1

Posted on 2012-05-15 by Jörg Riesmeier

Today, a new development snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available. This is the seventh 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 version. And, we … Continue reading →

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DICOM training courses

Posted on 2012-04-20 by Jörg Riesmeier

About 10 years ago, we started conducting DICOM training courses. At that time we already gained several years of DICOM experience, so we felt confident to talk about something we have a clue about. Our first course was a two-day … Continue reading →

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DICOM Structured Reporting

Posted on 2012-03-20 by Jörg Riesmeier

In April 2000, a completely new concept has been introduced to the DICOM standard with Supplement 23: Structured Reporting (SR). Only a few month later, we started with the work on a new DCMTK module “dcmsr”. The intended purpose of … Continue reading →

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