Medical Image Format FAQ - Part 8(1)

Medical Image Format FAQ - Part 8

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DICOM Information Sources

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• preface
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• part1 - general information & standard formats
• part2 - standard formats (continued)
• part3 - proprietary CT formats
• part4 - proprietary MR formats
• part5 - proprietary other formats
• part6 - hosts & compression
• part7 - general information sources
• part8 - DICOM information sources
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START OF PART 8

7.7 DICOM Information Sources

• AdobePhotoshop Plugins (Public Domain) for ACR/NEMA import (works with NIH Image also):
  
  
  • Note that NIH Image now imports DICOM images natively
  • http://www.dclunie.com/dicom-plugin/
    
    • Handles Part 10 and old ACR/NEMA or SPI 8 or 16 bit grayscale.
  • Frank Owen's ACR/NEMA Plugin for NIH Image (works with photoshop):
    
    • ftp://zippy.nimh.nih.gov/pub/nih-image/plug-ins/ACRNema.hqx
    • ftp://mirror.apple.com/mirrors/Info-Mac.Archive/gst/grf/pshp/acr-nema-121.hqx
    • ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/mac/info-mac/gst/grf/pshp/acr-nema-121.hqx
  • Other NIH Image stuff:
    
    • ftp://zippy.nimh.nih.gov/pub/nih-image/user-macros/import_acr_nema.txt
• AVS Module for ACR/NEMA import (works with SPI images):
  
  
  • ftp://testavs.ncsc.org/avs/AVS5/Module_Src/data_input/read_acr_nema/
• CEN TC251 WG4 (European parallel of DICOM):
  
  
  • http://www.ehto.be/cen251w4
• Aycan Digitalsysteme GmbH DICOM Consulting, Integration, Validation:
  
  DICOM server,archive,teleradiology,view,,diagnostic,printing,remote expose
  
  Stephan Popp
  Panormaweg 12
  D-97318 Kitzingen
  phone [phone]
  fax [phone]
  http://www.aycan.de/
  
• DICOM Anonymizers - removing identifying information:
  
  
  • DICOM Conversion Tools - dcanon script (based on dccp utility with -r or -d)
  • DICOM software - PixelMed Java DICOM Toolkit - see com.pixelmed.dicom.ClinicalTrialsAttributes and com.pixelmed.display.DicomImageBlackout (try it with webstart here)
  • DICOM software - PixelMed Java DicomCleaner webstart application - see com.pixelmed.display.DicomCleaner
  • MIRC Clinical Trial Processor (CTP)
  • DICOM software - AccuImage Viewing and Network
  • DICOM software - Sante
• DICOM Cardiac Angio CD Viewers:
  
  
  • Osiris
  • DICOM QuickTime plugin
  • DICOM software - CarDiCon Viewer and AVI Convertor cardiac profile viewer
  • DICOM software - MacAngioView DICOM Cine-angiogram Viewer (Mac)
  • DICOM software - FP Image DICOM Cine-angiogram Viewer (Windows)
  • DICOM software - ComView DICOM Cine-angiogram (CD-R) Viewer (Windows)
  • DICOM software - CardioVista DICOM Cine-angiogram (CD-R) Viewer (Windows)
  • DICOM software - Sanders DICOM Cine-angiogram (CD-R) Viewer (ViewPlus for Windows)
• DICOM Compatability Analysis Form:
  
  
  • http://www.ecri.org/documents/dicom.pdf - from ECRI
• DICOM Conversion Tools - dicom3tools:
  
  
  • dicom3tools_*.tar.gz
    • http://www.dclunie.com/dicom3tools.html
  • Tools and libraries for handling offline files.
  • Conversion from proprietary formats (mostly in the older version of the tools).
  • Can handle older ACR/NEMA format data.
  • Can handle SPI.
  • VERY limited X display capability.
  • No DICOM networking (yet).
  • Features (of the workinprogress snapshot code)
    • Proprietary image conversions from ...
      • General Electric CT High Speed Advantage (Genesis)
      • General Electric MR Signa 5X (Genesis)
      • General Electric Advantage Windows
      • General Electric CT Pace
      • Siemens CT Somatom Plus family (Native)(incomplete)
      • Imatron CT (incomplete)
      • Shimadzu MR (incomplete)
    • Image format support ...
      • DICOM 3 offline file format as per Part 10.
      • Parsing/validating DICOM 3 data sets as modules and IODs.
      • Build/dump DICOMDIR.
      • Pbmplus extended 16 bit raw format.
      • Raw binary images.
    • Display support ...
      • Generic X Windows display of DICOM images
        • Multi-frame (not as cine though)
        • Colour (palette and rgb)
        • Greyscale (window level/width for > 8 bits)
        • 3D position reporting if attributes present
  • Features (of the old code):
    • Proprietary image conversions from ...
      • General Electric CT 9800
      • General Electric CT High Speed Advantage (Genesis)
      • General Electric MR Signa 3X/4X
      • General Electric MR Signa 5X (Genesis)
      • General Electric CT Sytec
      • General Electric CT Pace
      • General Electric MR Max
      • Siemens CT Somatom DR family
      • Siemens CT Somatom Plus family (SPI)
      • Siemens MR Magnetom Impact (SPI)
      • Siemens MR Magnetom SP (SPI)
      • Siemens MR Magnetom GBS/GBS2 (native)
      • Siemens MR Magnetom Vision (native,SPI)
      • Philips MR Gyroscan S15 (native,SPI)
    • Image format support ...
      • DICOM 3 offline file format as per Part 10.
      • Parsing/validating DICOM 3 data sets as modules and IODs.
      • Pbmplus extended 16 bit raw format.
      • Raw binary images.
    • Archive retrieval from ...
      • General purpose 9-track and DAT file extraction.
      • General Electric CT 9800 9-track.
      • General Electric Genesis DAT.
      • Philips Gyroscan MR S15 native format (ANSI format tapes).
    • Miscellaneous image format utilities ...
      • Dump (octal/hex/decimal/byte/short/long/ieee float/strings).
      • Patch.
      • Swap bytes.
      • Word to byte shift.
      • Extract 12 bit packed data.
      • Guess unknown byte order, sign, image matrix size and offset.
      • Window level/width
      • Vax VMS DUMP output to binary (poor man's uudecode).
• DICOM Conformance Statement sites:
  
  
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - AccuImage.
    http://www.accuimage.com/support_dicom.htm
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Acuson.
    http://www.acuson.com/dicom/dicomconf.html
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - ADAC Pegasys.
    http://www.adaclabs.com/
    http://www.adaclabs.com/general/pdf/pegX_conformance.pdf
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Agfa - See also Agfa.
    http://www.agfa.com/healthcare/ PACS and Printers
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Algotec.
    http://www.algotec.com/web/dicom/index.htm
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - ALI/McKesson - See also ALI.
    http://www.alitech.com/products/dicom.htm UltraPACS
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Amicas.
    http://www.amicas.com/pacsed/
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - ATL.
    http://www.medical.philips.com/connectivity/
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Array - Film Digitizers
    http://www.arrayusa.com/main.htm
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Aycan - See also Aycan Digitalsysteme GmbH
    http://www.aycan.de/confstat.html
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Bayer Medical Solutions.
    http://www.bms-austria.com/
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Brit Systems.
    http://www.brit.com/dicom.htm
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Canon.
    http://www.usa.canon.com/html/industrial_medeq/drs.html
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Cedara.
    http://www.cedara.com/services/dicom_conformance_statements.htm
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Cerner.
    http://www.cerner.com/uploadedFiles/DICOM_conformance.pdf ProVision PACS.
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Dejarnette.
    http://www.dejarnette.com/main/DICOMconformance.asp
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - DR Systems.
    http://www.dominator.com/s_standards.html
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - eMed.
    http://www.emed.com/resources/standards.php
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Esaote.
    http://www.esaote.com/products/MRI/statements/statements.htm Artoscan extremity MRI.
    http://www.esaote.com/products/ultrasound/statements/confstat.htm Ultrasound PACS.
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Fischer.
    http://www.fischerimaging.com/product/seno_scan.asp
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Fuji.
    http://www.fujimed.com/resources/dicom-ihe-statements/default.asp?location=4&area=20&id=0&subid=0
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - GE Healthcare.
    http://www.gehealthcare.com/usen/interoperability/dicom/index.html
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - HeartLab.
    http://www.heartlab.com/dicom_conformance.htm
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Hologic.
    http://www.hologic.com/cc/dicom.htm
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Hitachi.
    http://www.hitachimed.com/products/conformance.asp
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - IBM IDMR - Integrated Digital Medical Record.
    http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/projects/software/idmr/conform.html
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Image Devices.
    http://www.imagedev.com/englisch/downloads.html
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - IMCO-TECH.
    http://www.imco-tech.com/confstmt.htm
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Intuitive Imaging Informatics.
    http://www.intuitiveimaging.com/documentation.html
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Kodak.
    http://www.kodak.com/US/en/health/serviceAndSupport/dicom.jhtml
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Konica.
    http://www.konicamedical.com/KMI/products/conformance.html
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Medcon.
    http://www.medcon.co.il/dicom.htm
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - MedImage.
    http://www.medimage.com/web/DICOM%20Statements/default.html
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Medweb.
    http://www.medweb.com/html/conformance.html
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Merge.
    http://www.merge.com/helpcenter/onlinesupport.asp
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Mitra.
    http://www.mitra.com/technology/conformance.html
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - PACSGear paper document scanning into DICOM Secondary Capture images.
    http://www.pacsgear.com/dicom.html
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Philips.
    http://www.medical.philips.com/connectivity/
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement -Prowess.
    http://www.prowess.com/ Apex Server (RT)
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Rasna Imaging.
    http://www.rasnaimaging.com/dicom.htm Perceptive.
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Rogan.
    http://www.rogan-medical.com/
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Sectra.
    http://www.sectra.se/medical/pacs/products/dicom_conformance/index.html
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Sensor Systems.
    http://www.sensor.com/
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Siemens.
    http://www.SiemensMedical.com/DICOM
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - SoftMedical.
    http://www.softmedical.com/docs/dicomagent.pdf
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Stentor.
    http://www.stentor.com/Tech_DICOMConformance.htm
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - StorComm.
    http://www.storcomm.com/Products/IntegrationSolutions/DICOMIntegration.htm
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - SwissRay.
    http://www.swissray.com/
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Tiani.
    http://www.tiani.com/IHE/
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - Toshiba.
    http://medical.toshiba.com/services/dicomconformancestatements.htm
    
  • DICOM Conformance Statement - UCDMC.
    http://www-radiology.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/MCONF.html
    http://www-radiology.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/pacs.html
• DICOM Consulting
  
  • Lake Griffin DICOM Training and Consulting (Europe)
  • Laufenberg Consulting DICOM Consulting
  • Merge Technologies Inc DICOM Solutions,Testing,Training,Consulting (USA and Europe)
  • Otech Inc. DICOM News, Education and Consulting
  • Pulse Consulting DICOM Consulting
  • Medigration GmbH DICOM Consulting
  • Aycan Digitalsysteme GmbH DICOM Consulting
  • Logisys DICOM Consulting
  • DVS Consulting DICOM Training and Consulting
  • Multi Tech DICOM Solutions, Consulting, Toolkits, Training and HIS Interface
  • Roni Zaharia Medical imaging and connectivity consulting in Israel
• DICOM C# Software (tools and applications):
  
  
  • DICOM software - MyDICOM C# Toolkit and Applications
  • DICOM software - Reliable Medical DICOM.Net C# Toolkit and PACS
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/dicom-cs Open source C# DICOM toolkit
• DICOM data dictionary:
  
  
  • From NIH ftp://zippy.nimh.nih.gov/pub/nih-image
    • /documents/dicom-dict.txt
  • In dicom3tools_*.tar.gz
    • http://www.dclunie.com/dicom3tools.html
  • In PixelMed Java DICOM Toolkit
    • DICOM software - PixelMed Java DICOM Toolkit
• DICOM draft standards and working documents:
  
  
  • DICOM standards at NEMA:
    
    • http://medical.nema.org/dicom.html
    • http://medical.nema.org/dicom/
    • ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/
    • Publically accessible directories:
      • ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/2000/ 2000 Standard.
      • ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/1999/ 1999 Standard.
      • ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/1998/ 1998 Standard.
      • ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/cp/ Correction proposals.
      • ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/supps/ Ballot, comment and working drafts of supplements.
      • ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/final/ Final text of supplements and corrections not yet incorporated in most recent standard.
  • DICOM draft status and links to latest drafts:
    See DICOM Standard Status.
  • DICOM draft status in Japanese:
    See http://www.jfcr.or.jp/DICOM/dicom_draft-j.html.
• DICOM discussion and working group sites:
  
  
  • http://www.dicomwg12.org/ DICOM WG 12 (Ultrasound)
• DICOM File Editors:
  
  
  • DICOM software - Marianne Goeltl-Schuberth's MedImaView viewer and PowerDicom dataset editor (Windows)
• DICOM Education
  
  • Lake Griffin DICOM Training and Consulting (Europe)
  • Merge Technologies Inc DICOM Solutions,Testing,Training,Consulting (USA and Europe)
  • Otech Inc. DICOM News, Education and Consulting
  • Medigration GmbH DICOM Education
  • http://www.genisis.ch/ University of Geneva - PACS Course
  • DVS Consulting DICOM Training and Consulting
  • Multi Tech DICOM Solutions, Consulting, Toolkits, Training and HIS Interface
• DICOM FAQ See DICOM FAQ in Part 7.
  
• DICOM File Convertors and Viewers:
  
  
  • See also http://www.idoimaging.com/index.shtml index of free medical imaging software
  • AdobePhotoshop Plugins (Public Domain) for ACR/NEMA import
  • ALI WinVIEW
  • Alice
  • ImportACCESS Adobe Photoshop Plugin
  • dicom3tools
  • DICOM software - PixelMed Java DICOM Toolkit
  • Dr Razz
  • Evergreen Technologies
  • IMNET Systems
  • InterFormat
  • Medical Imaging Technology Associates
  • MultiView
  • Osiris
  • OsiriX MacOS X
  • SiteView
  • UMAB Image Net (Windows)
  • VisPoint
  • DICOM software - Sébastien Barré's dicom2 convertor/viewer
  • DICOM software - George Grevera's DICOM to PGM and TIFF convertor
  • DICOM software - University Hospital Graz PACSview
  • LinoMedHiPax
  • DICOM software - EncoMate
  • RuboMed DICOM Viewer
  • DICOM software - EViewBox DICOM Viewer (Java)
  • DICOM software - Chili Teleradiology
  • DICOM software - Mediface
  • DICOM software - AccuImage Viewing and Network
  • DICOM software - Colin Rhodes DICOM Tag Viewer for Windows
  • DICOM resources - Chris Rorden ezDicom and MRIcro Viewer
  • ANALYZE from other format convertors including DICOM
  • DICOM QuickTime plugin
  • DICOM software - GMATEK
  • DICOM software - Tomovision
  • DICOM software - eFilm
  • IrfanView Windows viewer supports general and DICOM formats
  • GammaPC Nuclear Medicine display and processing includes DICOM reader
  • DICOM software - XMedCon DICOM (and other format) convertor/viewer
  • DICOM software - RAIM Java DICOM image viewer
  • Radiological Analysis Tool 3D viewer (DICOM files,MPR,MIP)
  • DICOM software - CarDiCon Viewer and AVI Convertor cardiac profile viewer
  • DICOM software - TrueView DICOM Viewer and Delphi Component
  • DICOM software - MacAngioView DICOM Cine-angiogram Viewer (Mac)
  • DICOM software - FP Image DICOM Cine-angiogram Viewer and File Browser (Windows)
  • DICOM software - ComView DICOM Cine-angiogram (CD-R) Viewer (Windows)
  • DICOM software - Marianne Goeltl-Schuberth's MedImaView viewer and PowerDicom dataset editor (Windows)
  • DICOM software - MedicView Windows Nuclear Medicine acquisiton and processing software
  • DICOM software - Imread Java DICOM Viewer
  • DICOM software - reViewMD Pocket PC DICOM Viewer
  • DICOM software - Sante Viewer and Anonymizer
  • DICOM software - CardioVista DICOM Cine-angiogram (CD-R) Viewer (Windows)
  • DICOM software - Sanders DICOM Cine-angiogram (CD-R) Viewer (ViewPlus for Windows)
  • DICOM software - DicomWorks DICOM view, export, make CD (Windows)
  • DICOM software - MRIConvert converts DICOM files to SPM99/Analyze, BrainVoyager, and MetaImage volume formats (Windows)
  • DICOM software - MyDICOM C++ and C# toolkits and various applications based on them (Windows)
  • DICOM Software - Escape Quicktime-based Viewer and 4th Dimension RDBMS support (Mac and Windows)
  • DICOM software - iRad Mac OS X DICOM Viewer
  • DICOM software - Madena DICOM image viewing, processing and fusion (Mac)
  • DICOM software - UniPACS Free DICOM viewer
  • DICOM software - CoreWare
  • Beth Israel Deaconess PET-CT Viewer and Nuclear Medicine Mini-PACS
  • http://netforum.medical.philips.com/movie/PmsDView.exe Philips DICOM Viewer (Windows)r
  • DICOM software - Aeskulap DICOM Viewer
  • DICOM software - MS Technology
  • http://www.sobox.it/ Sobox multi-platform viewer
  • http://www.3dim-laboratory.cz/en/sw.html Lightweight 3D viewer of medical DICOM datasets
  • http://forums.dcm4che.org/jiveforums/thread.jspa?threadID=1979 Mayam Java dcm4che-based viewer
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/dicomwidow/ DICOM Widow viewer (Windows)
  • http://www.hscheurig.co.cc/1/dicorview.htm DicoRView Radiotherapy viewer (Windows)
  • http://www.dicomconverter.com/ DicomConverter Online DICOM to JPEG converter
• DICOM image samples:
  
  
  • http://www.rsna.org/REG/practiceres/dicom/imageset.html 1997 RSNA DICOM Image Set
  • ftp://wuerlim.wustl.edu/pub/dicom/images/version3 Relatively old RSNA test images
  • http://ihedoc.wustl.edu/mesasoftware/index.htm IHE MESA test tool with images
  • http://ihedoc.wustl.edu/mesasoftware/12.x/display_consistency/index.html IHE Display Consistency test cases
  • PDI Datasets (RSNA 2005)
  • ftp://ftp.philips.com/pub/pms-3003/Medical_Images/ Samples from various Philips modality products
  • http://medical.barre.nom.fr/samples/ Various modality images encoded in different transfer syntaxes
  • http://www.rubomed.com/dicomfiles/index.html Cardiac angio
  • ftp://www.expasy.ch/pub/Osiris/Images/ImagesDicom/ Osiris
  • http://imrad.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/UCDMC/GE_MRI_CT_TestFiles/ UCDMC
  • http://deckard.mc.duke.edu/~samei/tg18#_DOWNLOAD_THE_TG18 AAPM TG18 display test patterns in DICOM format
  • http://www.dclunie.com/images/charset/ Test images with internationalized character sets
  • http://www.dclunie.com/images/compressed/ Deflate transfer syntax tests
  • http://www.dclunie.com/images/signedrange/ Signed range tests
  • ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/Multiframe/ Enhanced MR and CT Multiframe test objects
  • ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/DataSets/WG16 Enhanced MR product images
  • ftp://medical.nema.org/MEDICAL/Dicom/DataSets/WG12 Ultrasound product disk exchange test images
  • ftp://medical.nema.org/MEDICAL/Dicom/DataSets/WG04 Compression working group test images (uncompressed, JPEG, JPEG-LS and J2K
  • http://www.leadtools.com/SDK/Medical/DICOM/ltdc19.htm Sample images at LeadTools site
  • ftp://dicom.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/dicom/images Copies of the CAR and NEMA demonstration CDs
  • http://www.merge.com/helpcenter/onlinesupport_sampleimages.asp Samples at Merge
  • http://homepage.mac.com/rossetantoine/osirix/Downloads.html Osirix samples
  • http://149.142.216.30/DICOM_FILES/Index.html More Osirix samples
  • http://imaging.cancer.gov/reportsandpublications/reportsandpresentations/firstdataset NCI Lung Image Database Consortium (LIDC)
  • http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/~jpr/PUBLIC/gdcm/ gdcm samples from Mathieu Malaterre
  • http://nova.nlm.nih.gov/wramc/data_index.html Walter Reed Army Medical Center virtual colonoscopy trial images, has moved to http://ncia.nci.nih.gov/ncia/collections NCIA Collections
  • http://www.oasis-brains.org/app/template/Tools.vm Open Access Series of Imaging Studies (OASIS) MRI data sets of the brain
  • http://ncia.nci.nih.gov National Cancer Imaging Archive
  • http://193.55.58.11/DPTools/dptools-samples.exe Diffusion and perfusion DICOM (and some GE Signa Genesis format) images. See also DPTools.
• DICOM Interfile Conversion Software - IDICON:
  
  
  • http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~idicon/ IDICON
• DICOM to Information System integration contacts:
  
  Rasna DICOM IS Integration.
  http http://www.rasnaimaging.com/
  
  Mitra DICOM IS Integration.
  http http://www.mitra.com/pacsbroker.html
  
  Philips Inturis.
  http http://www.philips.com/ms/solution/connect/index.htm
  
  Multi Tech DICOM Solutions, Consulting, Toolkits, Training and HIS Interface
  
• DICOM Japan:
  
  
  • http://www.jfcr.or.jp/DICOM/ JIRA and JIS at The Cancer Institute, Tokyo
• DICOM Java Software (tools and applications):
  
  
  • DICOM software - EViewBox
  • DICOM software - Z Medical
  • DICOM software - Softlink Java DICOM Toolkit
  • DICOM software - Laurel Bridge Java DICOM Toolkit
  • DICOM software - Softcopy Presentation State Demonstration
  • DICOM software - RAIM Java DICOM image viewer
  • DICOM software - JDicom Java DICOM tools from Tiani
  • DICOM software - CareOn Java DICOM Toolkit (DICOMIX)
  • DICOM software - Imread Java DICOM Viewer
  • DICOM software - Tiani Java Image Archive Application
  • DICOM software - Apteryx Java DICOM Image I/O Plugin
  • DICOM software - JiveX Java Image Distribution and Viewing
  • DICOM software - PixelMed Java DICOM Toolkit Free pure Java tools with source code
  • DICOM software - JDCM Java DICOM Toolkit Free pure Java toolkit
  • DICOM software - NeatMed Java DICOM Toolkit Free pure Java toolkit
• DICOM Media - NT Drivers for Unpartitioned Media:
  
  
  • DICOM specifies the use of unpartitioned (large floppy) rather than partitioned (removable hard drive) DOS FAT 16 file systems on MOD, and Windows NT doesn't handle these at all, so a third party driver is required.
  • http://www.simplyfile.com/non.htm SimplyFile driver
• DICOM Ontology:
  
  
  • https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/Imaging/In+Vivo+Imaging#InVivoImaging-DICOMOntology Project wiki
  • https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/Imaging/How+to+Protege+DICOM How to Protege DICOM
• DICOM Packet Sniffers (tools for capturing DICOM packets on network)
  
  • http://www.dclunie.com/dicom-tcpdump/ Patches to make tcpdump DICOM aware
  • ftp://wuerlim.wustl.edu/pub/dicom/ dcm_snoop in Mallinckrodt CTN kit
  • http://imrad.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/DevelopersCut/dicomwhif/ dicomwhif from UCDMC
  • http://www.merge.com// DICOM packet sniffer from Merge (commericial)
• DICOM Papers:
  
  
  • http://constitution.mit.edu/dicomdb.html - white paper on DICOM and databases
  • http://www.rz.uni-hildesheim.de/~jost0073/dicom/dicom8.htm - DICOM Part 8 Seminar (German language)
  • http://www.uni-mainz.de/Cardio/incis/abstract/s4_3.htm - Making DICOM work in the Netherlands: INFOMED2
  • http://www.uni-mainz.de/Cardio/incis/abstract/s1_4.htm - Status of implementation of DICOM in cardiac imaging systems
  • http://oasis.rad.upenn.edu/~grevera/papers/spie/mi96/www/paper.html - A WWW to DICOM Interface
  • http://oasis.rad.upenn.edu/~grevera/papers/spie/mi96/gi/paper.html - Implementing desktop image access of GI images
  • http://www.kard.akh-wien.ac.at/cic95/papers/164.Alcocer.txt - A DICOM implementation for cine-angiography images using image compression techniques
  • http://stekt.oulu.fi/~sjs/europacs94.html - An evaluation of DICOM-3 implementation experiences
  • http://www.cvc.uab.es/~craig/dicom/oo-dicom.htm - Object-oriented Design of the DICOM Standard
  • http://www.otechimg.com/publications/presentations/html/spie.htm - DICOM Image Display Consistency: A Test Environment
  • http://physicsgate.swmed.edu/PhysWeb/dicom.htm The DICOM-WWW gateway: implementation, configuration, security and privacy
  • http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~thiran/publications/neri_thiran_ieee_itb1998.pdf Interactive DICOM Image Transmission and Telediagnosis Over the European ATM Network
  • http://www.ukbf.fu-berlin.de/medinf/Forschung/medsec/ The MedSeC Project: Speed-optimized Data Security for Telemedical Applications
  • http://mbi.dkfz-heidelberg.de/chili/Papers/P05-02.pdf The communication concept of a regional stroke unit network based on encrypted image transmission and the DICOM-Mail standard
  • http://www.rad.unipi.it/dicom/IEEE/ Interactive DICOM Image Transmission and Tele-diagnosis over the European ATM Network
  • http://www.rad.unipi.it/works/newsletter/article-fioravanti.html The DPACS Project at the University of Trieste
• Displaying DICOM Images in PowerPoint Presentations:
  
  
  • http://www.radfiler.com/dicomppt.htm RadFiler
  • http://www.triltech.com/ Power Showcase
• DICOM Public Servers:
  
  
  • http://www.dicomserver.co.uk/ Medical Connections - supports C-MOVE back to Calling AE on port 104
• DICOM Publications - General:
  
  Kodak "Understanding DICOM 3.0" catalog # 4B8915, $US 15.00
  Kodak Distribution Center (credit cards)
  phone [phone]
  
  OTech "DICOM Basics" $US 29.92
  Order at http://www.otechimg.com/bookdescription.htm
  
• DICOM Publications - Implementation:
  
  "Implementation of the DICOM 3.0 Standard - A Pragmatic Handbook" ?? still available ??
  Robert Hindel, Editor
  
  RH Consulting
  483 Ridge Road
  Orange CT 06477-2830
  phone [phone]
  fax [phone]
  
  Radiological Society of North America
  2021 Spring Road Suite 600
  Oak * IL 60521
  
  "DICOM Implementors' Cookbook"
  ftp://ftp.philips.com/pub/pms-3003/DICOM_Information/CookBook.pdf ******Excellent **** Highly recommended
  ftp://ftp.philips.com/pub/pms-3003/DICOM_Information/d2course.pdf
  
• DICOM Publications - Structured Reporting:
  
  "DICOM Structured Reporting" by David A. Clunie. ISBN 0-9701369-0-0. Published by http://www.pixelmed.com/PixelMed Publishing
  
  Order on-line for $USD 59.95 at http://www.pixelmed.com/srbook.html
  
• DICOM QuickTime plugin:
  
  No longer supplied separately, but as a component of other products. See DICOM Software - Escape.
• DICOM Radiotherapy Resources:
  
  
  • http://www.sgsmp.ch/bull983b.htm.
• DICOM resources - directory:
  
  
  • Merge Technologies Inc.
  • http://www.accusoft.com/Dresource.htm.
• DICOM resources - Chris Rorden - MRIcro convertor and ezDicom Viewer:
  
  Both applications can read the following formats: DICOM (uncompressed, XA and JPEG), NEMA, GE (LX, Genesis, 4.X, 5.X, compressed), Interfile, CTI ECAT6/7, Picker CT, Siemens (Magnetom Vision, Somatom, Somatom Plus), Elscint 2400/Elite, Philips .PAR/.REC, SPMwin (*.vhd), raw.
  
  • http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/mricro.html MRIcro Windows freeware (convert to DICOM and Analyze)
  • http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/mritut.html Tutorial
  • http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/dicom.html ezDICOM Pascal/Delphi project
• DICOM resources - Italy :
  
  
  • http://lx1.ddmc.unito.it/dicom Italian language DICOM intro and resources
• DICOM resources - Medx:
  
  
  • http://www.sensor.com/
• DICOM resources - RSNA:
  
  
  • http://www.rsna.org/practice/DICOM/dicom.html
• DICOM resources - Santel:
  
  
  • http://www.santel.lu/SANTEL/imgrel/imagproc.html Resource list
  • http://www.santel.lu/SANTEL/projects/html/dicom/dicom.html Tools and presentations
• DICOM Simple Storage SCP on PC or Mac (receives images):
  
  
  • DigitalJacket for Mac from DesAcc
• DICOM Softcopy Presentation State:
  
  
  • See DICOM software - Softcopy Presentation State Demonstration
• DICOM software - AccuImage Viewing and Network:
  
  
  • http://www.accuimage.com/
  • http://www.accuimage.com/supportAccuanonymizer.htm - Anonymizer
• DICOM software - AccuSoft Image Libraries:
  
  
  • http://www.accusoft.com/
• DICOM software - Aeskulap DICOM Viewer:
  
  
  • http://aeskulap.nongnu.org/ - open source Linux and Windows viewer (GPL; dcmtk-based)
• DICOM software - Apteryx Java DICOM Image I/O Plugin:
  
  Supports reading and writing DICOM files (FSR,FSC), send and receive (Storage SCU and SCP) and query-retrieve (C-Find, C-Move and C-Get SCU).
  • http://imaging.apteryx.fr/
• DICOM software - CarDiCon Viewer and AVI Convertor:
  
  
  • http://fhs-consulting.com/cardicon/
• DICOM software - Cardiology:
  
  Lossless JPEG software for American College of Cardiology
  Digital Interchange Standards for Cardiology CD-R demo.
  From Brown University Institute for Medical Computing.
  
• DICOM software - Chili Teleradiology:
  
  Teleradiology solution that supports DICOM.
  
  
  • http://www.chili-radiology.com/
• DICOM software - Central Test Node - Mallinkrodt:
  
  
  • http://wuerlim.wustl.edu/ Electronic Radiology Laboratory
  • ftp://wuerlim.wustl.edu/pub/dicom
• DICOM software - Central Test Node - Oldenburg from OFFIS ( DCMTK)
  
  • http://dicom.offis.de/dcmtk
  • ftp://dicom.offis.de/pub/dicom/offis/software/
  • http://forum.dcmtk.org/ Support forum
  • See also DICOM software - Softcopy Presentation State Demonstration
• DICOM software - CardioVista:
  
  DICOM Cine-angiogram (CD-R) ViewStar PC (Windows).
  
  
  • http://www.charrua.com/ingenio/cardiovista/indexen.htm (English)
  • http://www.charrua.com/ingenio/cardiovista/index.htm (Spanish)
• DICOM software - ComView:
  
  DICOM Cine-angiogram (CD-R) ViewStar PC (Windows).
  
  
  • www.comview.com/
• DICOM software - CoreWare DICOM Toolkit, Viewer, Worklist:
  
  DICOM Toolkit, viewer, worklist server, free for non-commercial use; also flat panel DR detector.
  
  
  • http://www.coreware.co.kr/
• DICOM software - Dejarnette AN/API tookit
  
  DICOM Toolkit in C for Unix, Windows, OS/2 and MacOS 7.
  
  
  • http://www.dejarnette.com/
  • http://www.dejarnette.com/main/PACSware.asp#ANAPI
• DICOM software - Dicomlib tookit and utilities from Trevor Morgan at Sunny*
  
  DICOM Toolkit and Utilities for Windows and Unix in C++.
  
  
  • http://dicomlib.swri.ca/
• DICOM software - DicomWorks:
  
  DICOM view, export, make CD (Windows).
  
  
  • www.dicomworks.com/
  
  
  
• DICOM software - Dimplx:
  
  ActiveX software to load DICOM images.
  
  
  • http://www.planar.com/ Planar (formerly Dome)
  • http://www.planar.com/Environments/HealthCare/medical_imaging/productLayout_8_5626_939.cfm
• DICOM software - eFilm:
  
  Software to receive, read and display DICOM images. Also handles media
  
  
  • http://www.efilm.net/
• DICOM software - EncoMate:
  
  Software to receive,read and display DICOM images.
  
  
  • http://www.encomate.com.tw/ Electronic Business Machines, *.
• DICOM Software - Escape:
  
  QuickTime-based DICOM Viewer and 4th Dimension RDBMS support for Mac and Windows
  
  • http://www.escape.gr/dicom/.
• DICOM Software - Etiam DICOM Eye store SCU/SCP,QR SCU,read/save,view
  
  http://www.etiam.com/amediem.htm
  
• DICOM software - EViewBox:
  
  Java application to read and display DICOM images.
  
  
  • http://www.derhy.com/DICOM/
  • http://wwwusers.imaginet.fr/~sderhy/EViewBox.html
• DICOM software - FP Image:
  
  DICOM Cine-angiogram Viewer (with AVI export) and File Browser (Windows).
  
  
  • www.fpimage.com/
• DICOM software - free and/or open source PACS solutions or components - see Free or Open Source PACS.
  
• DICOM software - GMATEK:
  
  
  • DICOM Software Development Kit, Communication Services Platform, Archive, RIS
  • http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gmatek/
• DICOM software - George Grevera's DICOM to PGM and TIFF convertor:
  
  
  • http://www.rad.upenn.edu/~grevera/images/dicom2pgm.html
• DICOM software - IDL Reader:
  
  Software to read DICOM images into the IDL image processing program.
  
  
  • http://www.floating.co.uk/idl/dicom.html Floating Point Systems UK Ltd.
• DICOM software - Imread Java DICOM Viewer:
  
  
  • http://www.uchsc.edu/sm/neuroimaging/download/imread/imread1.htm
• DICOM software - IntelePACS WebLite:
  
  Intelerad Linux-based software to receive DICOM images and distribute via Web (also have commercial software-only Linux-based PACS).
  
  
  • http://www.intelerad.com/cgi-bin/download/filelist.cgi
• DICOM software - iRad Mac OS X DICOM Viewer:
  
  
  • http://irad.sourceforge.net/
• DICOM software - InviWeb DicomWorks:
  
  
  • http://www.inviweb.com/
  • http://www.dicomworks.com/
• DICOM software - JDCM Java DICOM Toolkit:
  
  Java DICOM Toolkit (free, network, file, RLE).
  
  
  • http://www.geocities.com/gigiobb/
• DICOM software - JDicom Java DICOM tools from Tiani:
  
  
  • http://www.tiani.com/JDicom/
• DICOM software - JiveX Java Image Distribution and Viewing from Visus:
  
  
  • http://www.visus-tt.com/en/index.html
• DICOM software - Laurel Bridge DICOM Toolkit (Java, C++) :
  
  DICOM Connectivity Framework
  Laurel Bridge Software, Inc.
  Mr. Doug Bennett
  409 White Clay Center Drive
  Newark, DE 19711
  USA
  Telephone: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]
  Web: http://www.laurelbridge.com/
  
• DICOM software - Lead Tools Medical Imagine Engine and Suite:
  
  LEAD Technologies, Inc.
  1201 Greenwood Cliff, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28204
  USA
  Telephone: [phone]
  E-mail: [e-mail]
  Web: http://www.leadtools.com/ (under Medical)
  
• DICOM software - MacAngioView DICOM Cine-angiogram Viewer (Mac):
  
  DICOM angio (CD-R) file viewer for MacOs by Will Lapointe.
  
  
  • http://home.comcast.net/~wlapointe/
• DICOM software - Madena DICOM image viewing, processing and fusion (Mac):
  
  
  • MacOS 9 and X.
  • Also supports Analyze and TIFF and can export QuickTime.
  • Linear and non-linear transformation.
  • Rescaling, rotation and multi-modality fusion.
  • ROI measurement.
  • Isodensity tinting and contouring.
  
  
  • http://radonc.usc.edu/USCRadOnc/Madena/Madena.html
• DICOM software - Marianne Goeltl-Schuberth's MedImaView viewer and PowerDicom dataset editor (Windows)
  
  
  • http://www.dicom-solutions.com/
• DICOM software - Medasys:
  
  DICOM network client/server and viewer for Windows NT.
  
  
  • http://www.medasys-digital-systems.fr/medical/dxwin.html
• DICOM software - Medical Connections DICOMObjects ActiveX Library:
  
  DICOM ActiveX (Windows) library including viewer, network and file services.
  
  
  • http://www.medicalconnections.co.uk
• DICOM software - MedicView Windows Nuclear Medicine acquisiton and processing software
  
  MedicView supports files of type InterFile, DICOM, Acr/Nema, Analyze, Gif98, INW(RUG), ECAT/Matrix and PIP, for image data from NM, MR, CT, US and other imaging modalities. It includes functions rotation, flip, filter, zoom, movie, editing and creating color palettes, file (study) information, add images, move or delete images from file, tile/cascade of image files in several window maps, export image to BMP or JPEG. Native format of MedicView is InterFile.
  
  
  • http://www.medicimaging.com/