Introduction

Gdcm -which stands for Gnu DiCoM- is yet another C++ library dedicated to reading/parsing and writing Dicom files.

Features

• gdcm implements the dicom base standard part 5 that concentrates on image file format. Hence gdcm supports the following formats:
  1. ACR-NEMA version 1 and 2
  2. Dicom version 3.
• gdcm is distributed with LPGL for the license.
• gdcm targets both GNU/Un*ces and Windows/VC++ (see Requirements).
• gdcm comes with gdcmPython it's Python wrappers.

Design limitations

• gdcm does not implement any other part of the Dicom base standard as opposed to CTN or DCMTK. In particular gdcm is not aware of:
  1. the Dicom network file exchange protocol.
  2. the Dicom media storage formats.

Features to come (TODO list)

• offer Dicom jpeg compressed image support,
• enable Dicom header parsing of sequences and overlays,
• distribute a VTK thin wrapper of gdcm (essentially a vtkGdcmImageReader).

Installing gdcm and gdcmPyton: Installing gdcm and gdcmPython

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