DCMTK News

Today, a new snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available. See CHANGES file for further details.

Updated data dictionary and so on for the recently approved changes to the standard (i.e. final text Supplements and Correction Items).

Fixed various issues that occurred after the official release and the previous snapshot.

Introduced first version of a new command line tool dcmsend, a Simple Storage Service Class User.

Added suppport for converting DICOM files, datasets and element values between different character sets (incl. code extension techniques).

Added new output format to dcm2xml: the Native DICOM Model according to part 19 of the DICOM standard (“Application Hosting”).

Today, a new snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available. See CHANGES file for further details.

Updated data dictionary, list of SOP classes and so on for the recently approved changes to the standard.
The DCMTK is now in sync with DICOM 2011 and all final text Supplements and Correction Items since then.

Also fixed some minor issues that occurred after the official release and the previous snapshot.

Significantly enhanced performance of the DICOMDIR code for reading and writing such files.

One new feature: Introduced first version of a new command line tool getscu, a C-GET Service Class User.

Today, a new snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available. See CHANGES file for further details.

Updated data dictionary, list of SOP classes and so on for the recently approved changes to the standard.

Also fixed some minor issues that occurred after the official release and the previous snapshot.

One new feature: Introduced first version of a test suite based on a general C++ testing framework.

Today, a new snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available. See CHANGES file for further details.

Updated data dictionary, list of SOP classes and so on for the recently approved changes to the standard.

Also fixed some minor issues that occurred after the official release and the first snapshot.

Today, a new snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available. See CHANGES file for further details.

Basically, only minor issues have been fixed that occurred after the release. Also added support for the latest Supplements and Correction Proposals.

One new feature: With CMake, it is now possible to build shared libraries out of the box (currently, under Unix system only).

Today, a new release of the DCMTK has been made available. See ANNOUNCE and CHANGES file for further details.

This is the first official release after more than five years. As you can see from the many changes, we haven't been lazy during that time

Today, a new snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available. See CHANGES file for further details.

Updated data dictionary, list of SOP classes and so on for the recently approved changes to the standard.

This is the last official snapshot before the new release, so cross-platform testing will start tomorrow!

Today, a new snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available which contains amongst others an up-to-date list of SOP classes. See CHANGES file for further details.

Also the DICOMDIR tools have been updated for the latest directory record types, and the recently introduced Structured Reporting IODs have been added to the dcmsr module.

Since now the data dictionary, the list of SOP classes and transfer syntaxes and other aspects of the DCMTK are up-to-date, we are getting closer to a new release

Today, a new snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available which contains amongst others an up-to-date data dictionary. See CHANGES file for further details.

Please note that some attribute names have changed since the data dictionary now uses the official keywords from DICOM part 6.

Today, a new snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available which contains small fixes and improvements. See CHANGES file for further details.

In addition, the CMake files have been reworked completely in order to also support other platforms than Windows (e.g. Linux and other Unix-like systems).

Today, a new snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available which contains small fixes and improvements. See CHANGES file for further details.

Now, VisualStudio 2010 is also supported, i.e. the compiler settings are explicitly specified in the main CMake file and compilation/linking has been tested successfully.

Today, a new snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available which contains small fixes and improvements. See CHANGES file for further details.

In addition to the download of the DCMTK snapshot via ftp or http, you can now also access the complete source code repository using git.

We have also updated the DCMTK project page at Ohloh, a free public directory of open source software and people.

Today, a new snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available which contains small fixes and improvements. See CHANGES file for further details.

Today, a new snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available which contains a new module for the JPEG-LS compression scheme. See documentation for details.

Furthermore, a DICONDE (Digital Imaging and Communication in Nondestructive Evaluation) data dictionary has been created and added. See Howto for details.

Today, a new snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available which fixes an issue with the OFString class. See CHANGES file for further details.

Today, a new snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available which already contains the new logging mechanism. See documentation for details.

We are currently completely reworking the error reporting (i.e. logging) of the DCMTK. As a result, the next snapshot will contain a new module oflog which is based on log4cplus.

We also have a new implementation of JPEG-LS which is based on CharLS. The new module dcmjpls will probably be part of the next DCMTK release (date still unknown).