DCMTK - DICOM Toolkit

Description

DCMTK is a collection of libraries and applications implementing large parts the DICOM standard. It 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 is is written in a mixture of ANSI C and C++. It comes in complete source code and is made available as "open source" software.

DCMTK has been used at numerous DICOM demonstrations to provide central, vendor-independent image storage and worklist servers (CTNs - Central Test Nodes). It is used by hospitals and companies all over the world for a wide variety of purposes ranging from being a tool for product testing to being a building block for research projects, prototypes and commercial products.

The DCMTK software can be compiled under Windows and a wide range of Unix operating systems including Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and MacOS X. All necessary configuration scripts and project makefiles are supplied.

See the documentation included with the distribution for the latest information about changes in DCMTK between releases. A summary of the highlights of the current release is available in the ANNOUNCE file. An overview of the toolkit's modules is included in the distribution's README file. The COPYRIGHT text and the history of DCMTK's development are also available online. Frequently asked questions are answered in the FAQ.

An overview of known issues and vulnerabilities in the various DCMTK releases can be found in the DCMTK Wiki on the "Known Issues" page. A complete list of known (open and resolved) issues can be found in the Bug Tracker. Please note that issues are only resolved in the latest vesion of DCMTK (i.e. the current DCMTK snapshot).

DCMTK - snapshot

The latest snapshot of the DCMTK (source code) can also be downloaded via ftp or http. Please note, however, that this is not an official release version. The source code should (at least) compile on Linux systems (with GCC 4.7.2 and later) and on Windows Systems (with Visual Studio 2010-2015), but there is no guarantee that this will also work on your system. For more information about the latest snapshot see the related README file.

In addition, you also have read access to the complete source code repository of the DCMTK in order to see what has changed.

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DCMTK 3.6.0 - source code and documentation (2011-01-06)

DCMTK can be downloaded as a gzip compressed tar archive or as a ZIP archive. The contents of the two archives are identical.

	dcmtk-3.6.0.tar.gz 4,564K	DCMTK 3.6.0 source code and documentation
	dcmtk-3.6.0.zip 6,145K	DCMTK 3.6.0 source code and documentation

The developer documentation can also be viewed online or downloaded separately.

	dcmtk-3.6.0-html-help.zip 8,462K	DCMTK 3.6.0 documentation in HTML format
	dcmtk-3.6.0-win32-help.zip (not yet available)	DCMTK 3.6.0 documentation as Windows help file (CHM)

DCMTK makes use of the following external libraries for zlib compression, TIFF and PNG creation as well as XML document processing.

	zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz 532K	zlib 1.2.5 source code and documentation
	tiff-3.9.4.tar.gz 1,404K	libtiff 3.9.4 source code and documentation
	libpng-1.4.3.tar.gz 805K	libpng 1.4.3 source code and documentation
	libxml2-2.7.7.tar.gz 4,755K	libxml2 2.7.7 source code and documentation
	libiconv-1.13.1.tar.gz 4,606K	libiconv 1.13.1 source code and documentation (used by libxml2)

DCMTK 3.6.0 - executable binaries

The following archives contain compiled, executable binaries of the current DCMTK release for the most popular of the supported systems. In addition to these files the source code archive is also recommended because it contains further documentation.

	dcmtk-3.6.0-win32-i386.zip 40,017K	DCMTK 3.6.0 for Windows (32 bit)
	dcmtk-3.6.0-linux-i686-static.tar.bz2 62,060K	DCMTK 3.6.0 for Linux 2.6.x (i686, Debian 5.0, static linkage)
	dcmtk-3.6.0-linux-i686-dynamic.tar.bz2 30,264K	DCMTK 3.6.0 for Linux 2.6.x (i686, Debian 5.0, dynamic linkage)
	dcmtk-3.6.0-mac-i686-static.tar.bz2 65.536K	DCMTK 3.6.0 for Mac OS X 10.6 (i686, compiled on Mac OS X 10.6.8, gcc 4.2.1, static linkage. External, dynamically linked libraries enabled: ZLIB and PNG)

DCMTK 3.6.0 - OpenSSL based security extensions

DCMTK supports some of the DICOM security extensions and relies on the free OpenSSL toolkit for the underlying cryptographic routines and the TLS protocol implementation. The following archives contain executable binaries that have been compiled and linked with OpenSSL. Only the DCMTK tools that make use of OpenSSL are included in these archives - please also download the corresponding full binary package. Please note that the use of cryptographic algorithms is affected by legislation and patent issues in many countries - you have to make sure yourself that you are allowed to use these tools before downloading them.

	dcmtk-3.6.0-win32-i386-tls.zip 10,566K	DCMTK 3.6.0 OpenSSL add-on for Windows (32 bit)
	dcmtk-3.6.0-linux-i686-static-tls.tar.bz2 15,476K	DCMTK 3.6.0 OpenSSL add-on for Linux 2.6.x (i686, Debian 5.0, static linkage)
	dcmtk-3.6.0-linux-i686-dynamic-tls.tar.bz2 6,670K	DCMTK 3.6.0 OpenSSL add-on for Linux 2.6.x (i686, Debian 5.0, dynamic linkage)
	openssl-1.0.0c.tar.gz 3,929K	OpenSSL 1.0.0c source code and documentation

DCMTK 3.6.0 - support libraries for Windows

Like for the previous release 3.5.4, we also provide the external libraries which are used by DCMTK (i. e. zlib 1.2.5, libtiff 3.9.4, libpng 1.4.3, libxml2 2.7.7 with libiconv 1.13.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.0c) for the current DCMTK release 3.6.0 in pre-compiled format for Windows. The archives contain include files as well as debug and release versions of the corresponding libraries.

All support libraries included are available either compiled with "Multithreaded" runtime options (/MT and /MTd) or with "Multithreaded DLL" runtime options (/MD and /MDd). Please specify the include paths in CMake accordingly.

	dcmtk-3.6.0-win32-i386-support_MT.zip 13,376K	Pre-compiled libraries for Windows (32 bit) with "MT" option
	dcmtk-3.6.0-win32-i386-support_MD.zip 6,165K	Pre-compiled libraries for Windows (32 bit) with "MD" option

DCMTK - old versions

Old versions of the DCMTK are still available for download via ftp or http.

DCMTK - user contributions

The following tools and software packages have been contributed by DCMTK users. Any use of these applications is (of course) at your own risk.

	dcmtk-3.5.4-win32-i386-md-support.zip 7,816K	Pre-compiled libraries for Windows (32 bit), generated with the "Multithreaded DLL" runtime options (/MD and /MDd), by Dennis Ballance
	MacStoreSCU-330d1.PPC.hqx 347K	StoreSCU for MacOS on PowerPC, based on DCMTK 3.3.0, by Arnaud Masson
	winoffis.zip 80K	Windows application for renaming .cc files from the DCMTK tar archive to .cxx (for Visual C++), by Gilles Mevel
	dcmtk-3.6.0-openindiana.tar.bz2 38,142K	DCMTK 3.6.0 for OpenIndiana, by Paolo Marcheschi
	dcmtk-3.6.1_20120831-openindiana64.pkg.tar.bz2 76,687K	DCMTK 3.6.1 Snapshot (20120831) for OpenIndiana (64 bit), by Paolo Marcheschi
	dcmtk-3.6.1_20120831-solaris32.pkg.bz2 63,187K	DCMTK 3.6.1 Snapshot (20120831) for Solaris 10 (32 bit), by Paolo Marcheschi
	dcmtk_macosx	Fink package of DCMTK 3.5.4 for MacOS X 10.4, by Bernd Kümmerlen
	dcmtk_irix6	DCMTK 3.5.2 for IRIX 6.x, by Sebastian Meyer
	dcmtk_debian	DCMTK 3.5.4 and 3.6.0 for Debian Linux, by Pablo Sau, Jürgen Salk, Andreas Tille and Mathieu Malaterre
	dcmtk_rpm	RPM packages of DCMTK 3.5.4, by Andy Loening and others
	dcmtk_mandriva	RPM packages of DCMTK 3.5.4 for Mandriva Linux, by Marc Cals
	dcmtk_patched	Patched version of DCMTK 3.5.4, by Per I. Mathisen
	dcmtk_ubuntu	DCMTK 3.6.0 for Ubuntu Linux, by Rohan Garg
	dcmtk_opensuse	DCMTK for CentOS, Fedora, Mandriva and openSUSE Linux
	dcmtk_freebsd	DCMTK 3.5.4 and 3.6.0 for FreeBSD, by Pietro Cerutti