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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 training course in October 2016

The next DICOM training course in English language takes place from 18 to 20 October 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany. As usual, the two-day DICOM Intensive Course is followed by the one-day DCMTK Course.

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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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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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