DCMTK modules

The DCMTK is functionally structured into so-called modules. For each module there is a directory in DCMTK's main directory.

These are the modules of the public DCMTK toolkit (version 3.6.0):

• config: Module for configuring compilation of DCMTK
• ofstd: General purpose library including string class, etc.
• oflog: A logging library based on log4cplus
• dcmdata: Module for reading, modifying and writing DICOM data structures
• dcmimgle: Module for processing DICOM images (grayscale)
• dcmimage: Module for processing DICOM images (color)
• dcmnet: Module for the DICOM network protocol
• dcmqrdb: Module providing a simple test PACS
• dcmsr: Module implementing DICOM Structured Reporting (SR)
• dcmwlm: Module implementing a DICOM worklist server
• dcmjpeg: Module implementing a DICOM JPEG codec
• dcmjpls: Module implementing a DICOM JPEG-LS codec
• dcmpstat: Module implementing DICOM Presentation States
• dcmsign: Module implementing DICOM signatures etc.
• dcmtls: Module implementing secure networking for DICOM
• docs: Module containing some general documents about DCMTK
• doxygen: Module for generating API documentation with doxygen

Documentation on the DCMTK is available online.

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