DICOMSDL  0.79.20110728
DICOMSoftwareDevelopmentLibrary
Introduction

What is DICOMSDL?

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a standard for managing informations in medical imaging developed by American College of Radiology (ACR) and National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA). It defines a file format and a communication protocol over network.

DICOM SDL is a software developed libraries for easy and quick development of an application managing DICOM formatted files. DICOM SDL is written in C++ and it allows to make programs that read, modify, write DICOM formatted files without in depth knowledge of DICOM.

DICOM SDL provides an extension module for python and you may build scripts with python.

DICOM SDL can

DICOM SDL is especially optimized for reading lots of DICOM formatted files quickly, and would be very useful for scanning and processing huge numbers of DICOM files.

DICOM SDL cannot