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14 Gdcm is yet another C++ library dedicated to reading/parsing and writing
15 <A HREF="http://medical.nema.org/">Dicom</A> medical files.
17 <B>GDCM</B>stands as a short for "<B>G</B>rass roots
18 <B>D</B>i<B>C</B>o<B>M</B>.
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23 <LI>gdcm implements the
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25 dicom base standard <B>part 5</B></A>
26 that concentrates on image file format.
27 Hence gdcm supports the following formats:
29 <LI>ACR-NEMA version 1 and 2
31 <LI>Dicom version 3 (including various encoding like jpeg or RLE).
35 <LI>gdcm is distributed with
36 <A HREF="License.html">Berkeley-like license</A>.
38 <LI>gdcm targets both GNU/Un*ces and Windows/VC++
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45 <A HREF="http://public.kitware.com/VTK">VTK</A>
46 shallow wrapper class vtkGdcmReader (refer to
47 <A HREF="">VtkGdcm.html</A>)
48 to ease the burden of VTK users,
49 <LI>gdcm also comes with
50 <A HREF="html.developper/DoxyPythonComplete.html">gdcmPython</A>
52 <A HREF="http://www.swig.org">SWIG</A>
54 <A HREF="http://www.python.org">Python</A>
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60 <H2>What gdcm is NOT</H2>
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64 dicom base standard <B>part 5</B></A>
65 gdcm does NOT implement any other part of the Dicom base standard
66 (as opposed to other C++ based with open license libraries like
67 <A HREF="http://www.offis.de/projekte/ig/dicom/soft-docs/soft01_d.html">
70 <A HREF="http://www.erl.wustl.edu/DICOM/ctn.html">CTN</A>).
72 In particular <B>gdcm is not aware</B> of:
74 <LI>the Dicom network file exchange protocol,
76 <LI>the Dicom media storage formats,
78 <LI>ANY OTHER PART of Dicom.
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83 <H2>What gdcm still misses</H2>
85 Among all the features of the
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88 gdcm doesn't implement (yet?)
90 <LI>the integration of (optional) overlays on image.
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