DICOM Software made by OFFIS

DCMTK - DICOM Toolkit

DCMTK is a collection of libraries and applications implementing large parts of the DICOM standard. DCMTK includes software for examining, constructing and converting DICOM image files, handling offline media, sending and receiving images over a network connection, as well as demonstrative image storage and worklist servers. DCMTK comes in complete source code and is written in a mixture of ANSI C and C++.

DICOMscope - DICOM Viewer

DICOMscope is a freely available DICOM viewer. The application displays uncompressed monochrome DICOM images from all modalities and supports display system calibration according to part 14 of the DICOM standard. It also supports supplement 33: Grayscale Softcopy Presentation State Storage. The software has been implemented in a mixture of Java and C++. It is based on a specification from the DICOM committee's working group 11 (Display) and has been presented at the ECR 1999 for the first time.

DCMPRINT - Print Management

DCMPRINT is a DICOM print management toolkit. The most important component is a DICOM printserver (SCP) creating PostScript data as output. This allows an application containing a DICOM print client to print on inexpensive laser printers. The server implements a wide variety of DICOM print services including all monochrome/colour and basic/referenced combinations. The toolkit also contains a sample print client application.

This module is not freely available and must be licensed separately.

DCMCHECK - Validation of DICOM Images

DCMCHECK is a validation and testing tool for DICOM images, testing the conformance of an image against IOD specifications (part 3 of the DICOM standard) and syntactical rules (parts 5 and 6). DCMCHECK analyzes a DICOM image and creates a detailed test report describing all detected violations of the standard.

This module is not freely available and must be licensed separately.

DCMJP2K - DICOM JPEG 2000 Module

DCMJP2K is a DICOM JPEG2000 toolkit which allows conversion of DICOM images into the DICOM JPEG2000 transfer syntaxes. Therefore, a class library is provided which offers decoding and encoding of DICOM JPEG2000 data. Additionally, two command line applications are included that demonstrate encoding and decoding of DICOM images using the DCMJP2K module.

This module is not freely available and must be licensed separately.

Evaluation Licence

An evaluation licence contract for the software modules which are not freely available can be downloaded here.

Discussion Forum

Regarding the OFFIS DICOM software, an FAQ list of frequently asked questions including the corresponding answers is available online here. In addition, further questions and possible issues can be discussed in a forum.