Tag Archives: Software

Where to get support for the DCMTK?

The answer to this question is easy. If you are a software developer, e.g. for an Open Source project that is based on the DCMTK, and need support (free of charge):

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Tenth DCMTK snapshot version 3.6.1

Yesterday, a new development snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available. This is the tenth snapshot after the official release of version 3.6.0. Due to a change of responsibility, it took more than 12 months to create this new snapshot, but that’s another … Continue reading

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How to get the current development version of the DCMTK?

Back in 2008, we started to make (more or less) stable development versions of the DCMTK available on a “regular” basis, i.e. in addition to the public releases. We call these versions “snapshots” because they reflect what’s currently in our … Continue reading

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Receiving DICOM files more easily?

Yesterday, I committed an initial version of a new command line tool to the public git repository of the DCMTK. Its name is “dcmrecv”. It is a “Simple Storage Service Class Provider”. This new tool, together with its underlying C++ class DcmStorageSCP is characterized … Continue reading

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Support for “Other Double String” value representation

Today, I added support for the final text version of Correction Item CP-1261 (Other Double 64 Bit Floating Point Value Representation) to the DCMTK, i.e. the dcmdata module now fully supports the new value representation (VR) “Other Double String” (OD) in the same manner as the other 27 previously introduced VRs. 

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