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DCMTK updated after DICOM WG-06 meeting in March 2016

Last week, the DICOM Working Group 6 (WG-06) met again and approved a single supplement and various correction items (CPs) for “final text” or “draft final text – waiting for codes”. The previous meeting of WG-06 (Base Standard) was in November last … Continue reading

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DICOM 2016a

A few days ago, the 2016a edition of the DICOM standard has been made available on the NEMA server. Compared to the previous edition from July last year, 5 supplements and 63 correction items (CPs) have been incorporated. The standard text now consists of 5,556 pages (PDF version).

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Fifteenth DCMTK snapshot version 3.6.1

Today, a new development snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available. This is the fifteenth snapshot after the official release of version 3.6.0. As always, we have updated the code for the latest changes to the DICOM standard. In other words, the data dictionary as well as the … Continue reading

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DICOM Structured Reporting revisited

When I wrote the article on “DICOM Structured Reporting“, I mentioned that dedicated support for Templates and Context Groups is still missing in the DCMTK. This has changed recently, thanks to the sponsoring from the QIICR project.

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Support for “Other Long” value representation

Today, I added support for the final text version of Supplement 181 (Tractography Results Storage SOP Class) to the DCMTK, i.e. the dcmdata module now fully supports the new value representation (VR) “Other Long” (OL) in the same manner as the other 30 previously introduced VRs. 

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