OFFIS DCMTK Documentation

Version 3.5.4

This DICOM ToolKit (DCMTK) package consists of source code, documentation and installation instructions for a set of software libraries and applications implementing part of the DICOM/MEDICOM Standard.

DCMTK contains the following sub-packages, each in its own sub-directory:

• config: configuration utilities for dcmtk
• dcmdata: a data encoding/decoding library and utility apps
• dcmimage: adds support for color images to dcmimgle
• dcmimgle: an image processing library and utility apps
• dcmjpeg: a compression/decompression library and utility apps
• dcmnet: a networking library and utility apps
• dcmpstat: a presentation state library and utility apps
• dcmsign: a digital signature library and utility apps
• dcmsr: a structured report library and utility apps
• dcmtls: security extensions for the network library
• dcmwlm: a modality worklist database server
• dcmqrdb: an image database server
• ofstd: a library of general purpose classes

Each sub-directory (except config) contains further sub-directories for application source code (apps), library source code (libsrc), library include files (include), configuration data (etc), documentation (docs) and test programs (tests).

To build and install the DCMTK package see the INSTALL file. For copyright information see the COPYRIGHT file. For information about the history of this software see the HISTORY file. For answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) see: http://forum.dcmtk.org/faq

If you find bugs or other problems with this software we would appreciate hearing about them. Please send electronic mail to dicom-bugs/at/offis/dot/de. Please try to describe the problem in detail and if possible give a suggested fix. For general questions on how to compile, install or use the toolkit we recommend the public discussion forum at: http://forum.dcmtk.org

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