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 this module was to support the DICOM viewer DICOMscope that was extended at that time to fulfill the requirements of the “DICOM Security Demonstration” sponsored by the NEMA Committee for the Advancement of DICOM and the DICOM Working Group 14 (Security). Continue reading →

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DICOM training course in October 2012

Posted on 2012-03-20 by Jörg Riesmeier

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.

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Sixth DCMTK snapshot version 3.6.1

Posted on 2012-02-23 by Jörg Riesmeier

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 →

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Building DCMTK as shared libraries

Posted on 2012-01-25 by Jörg Riesmeier

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 →

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Fifth DCMTK snapshot version 3.6.1

Posted on 2011-12-08 by Jörg Riesmeier

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 →

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