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 Dicom and Medical Imaging Mini How-To
1.0 - What is?

2.0 - Available programming libraries

3.0 - Softwares

4.0 - Debugging tools

5.0 - On-line ressources

6.0 - Other Medical Interest Links

7.0 - DCMTK informations
1.0 - What is?
1.1 - DICOM
DICOM stand for Digital Imaging and COmmunication in Medecine.  It's a file format and a communication protocol.

A good start point to find information about medical imaging is the David Clunie medical imaging faq. A good web site is http://www.idoimaging.com/index.shtml, a web site that collect information about ressources on the net for medical imaging.  There are more general site about open source software in medicine at http://www.openhealth.com/en/healthlinks.html,  http://homeusers.brutele.be/ypaindaveine/opensource/inventory.html, http://joe.lindsay.net/open-health-solutions.html and http://joe.lindsay.net/open-health-solutions.html, are listings of open source project in medicine.  May be you could find more technical at the ieee engineering in medicine and biology society.   Other keywords that could be searched for is Computer Vision that let you the find projects like VXL or MediGrid.

There is new about canadian health technologies at http://www.canhealth.com/.  There is a Montreal based company developping medical imaging software named tomovision that have free software.
 1.2 - HL7
1.3 - IHE
  2.0 - Available programming libraries
2.1 - Commercial products
2.1.1 - DICOM
http://www.thecriswells.net/MyDICOM/
http://www.merge.com
imaging library very interesting http://medx.sensor.com/products/medx/imagescript_docs.html
2.2 - Open Source Software
2.2.1 - DICOM
LibDicom (based on UCDMC99)

Offis DCMTK
At http://www.geocities.com/pawanpshroff/dcmtk.htm you could find a DCMTK introduction for dummies.  It doesn't speak about programming, but it's a good crash start for using the toolkit applications.

Papyrus, a dicom implementation with his own file format.  http://www.expasy.org/UIN/html1/projects/papyrus/DownloadPapyrus.html

UCDMC

JDCM

A perl implementation that support dicom file is available at http://dicomperl.sourceforge.net/
  3.0 - Softwares
3.1 - Dicom Viewer
OSIRIS - http://www.expasy.org/UIN/html1/projects/osiris/DownloadOsiris.html

OpenSource machinstosh dicom viewer http://homepage.mac.com/rossetantoine/osirix/

3D Slicer, an open-source software for visualization, registration, segmentation, and quantification of medical data.
http://computing.ee.ethz.ch/sepp/slicer-1.3.0-mo/index.html it is based on VTK and TCL/TK.
 3.2 - PACS Server
There is a bootable linux cdrom named CDMedic that contain a pacs software, dicom viewer etc.  It is available at http://cdmedicpacsweb.sourceforge.net/UserGuide.html
 3.3 - Gateway / Broker
http://gate.sgie.com/
 3.4 - Structured Report (SR) 
http://www.pointdx.com/
http://www.3dmedvis.com/asim_structured_report_viewer.html
 3.5 - Others
http://www.puntoexe.com/dicomDrive/
  4.0 - Debugging tools
  4.1 - Dicom Tools
One of the most complete tool kit, JDICOM from tiani.
Should also take a look at DICOM Scope from offis.
 4.2 - Network Tools
tcpdump and his modified version for dicom debugging.
 4.3 - File tools
dcmdump
  5.0 - On-line ressources
You could start with links in presentation section #1.0.  They are good starting places.
 5.1 Dicom General Informations and Links
Best place to look for is www.dclunie.com and check out the Medical Imaging FAQ. It can also be found on http://www.faqs.org/faqs/medical-image-faq/ in case the Davie Clunie site have problems.

Another place of interest is www.idoimaging.com that maintain a lisk of links on the best open source imaging software available around.

http://dicom.online.fr/ and http://dicom.online.fr/fr/dicomlinks.htm

http://medical.nema.org/
 5.1 - Samples image file
Sébastien Barré have a good sample of dicom image on his website.
  6.0 - Other medical interest links
6.1 - HL7 (Healt Level 7)
 6.2 - RIS / HIS
Care 2 X an electronic medical record system  (with a radiological module)
 6.3 - PACS
 6.4 - IHE
 6.5 - OID Unique object identifier
There is a list of OID distributed in Canada and there is a search tools to browse this list.
 6.6 - Conversion
There is an utility to transform dicom images into vtk image at http://www.wissmueller.net/software/dicomtovtk/dicomtovtk.htm
  7.0 DCMTK Informations
DCMTK is a dicom library for file and network functions.

The library, examples files and software could be downloaded at:

Information about the DCMDICTPATH environnement var could be found at http://www.mevis.de/~meyer/dcmtk/docs_352/config/envvars.txt