The next DICOM training course in English language takes place from 9 to 10 October 2012 at the COSMOPOLITAN in Frankfurt, Germany. This time, the two-day DICOM Intensive Course will be conducted.
Further details can be found on the ICSMED and OFFIS webpage.
Yesterday, on 2012-02-22 (what a date!) , a new development snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available. This is the sixth 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. This time, only few adaptations were necessary for staying up-to-date with the latest final text supplements and correction items to the DICOM standard. Continue reading
Originally, the predecessor of the DCMTK started as one of the first two prototype implementations of the DICOM network services, an image server that was called “European CTN” (Central Test Node). At that time, there were no plans for a general DICOM toolkit, so the support for building shared libraries instead of static ones didn’t have high priority. This did not change too much in the following years. Later on, we added an entry to the FAQ explaining how to create “DCMTK libraries as shared objects (.so-files)” for Unix systems using GNU autoconf. However, we never added support for GNU libtool, which would have made life easier and the creation of shared objects more portable. Continue reading
Today, a new development snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available. This is the fifth snapshot after the official release of version 3.6.0. As it is true for all snapshots since then, a couple of minor issues have been fixed that were detected after the publication of the previous version. In addition, the toolkit has again been adapted for the latest final text supplements and correction items. Continue reading
When the DCMTK module “dcmdata“, which is used for managing DICOM data structures and files, was designed in the mid of the 90s, there was already a distinct class for DICOM data elements that are affected by the attribute Specific Character Set (0008,0005), i.e. for the value representations Long String (LO), Long Text (LT), Person Name (PN), Short String (SH), Short Text (ST) and Unlimited Text (UT). Of course, I should be more precise: The latter was introduced a few years later in 1998 with CP-122. Nevertheless, the support for different character sets in the DCMTK stayed quite limited until only recently. Continue reading
