/**
 * \page DoxyIntroduction Introduction
 *
 *  Gdcm -which stands for Gnu DiCoM- is yet another C++ library
 *  dedicated to reading/parsing and writing
 *  <A HREF="http://medical.nema.org/">Dicom</A> files.
 *
 * \section DoxyFeatures Features
 *  - gdcm implements the
 *    <A HREF="http://www.dclunie.com/dicom-status/status.html">
 *    dicom base standard part 5</A> that concentrates on image file format.
 *    Hence gdcm supports the following formats:
 *    -# ACR-NEMA version 1 and 2
 *    -# Dicom version 3.
 *  - gdcm is distributed with 
 *    <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">LPGL</A>
 *    for the license.
 *  - gdcm targets both GNU/Un*ces and Windows/VC++ (see \ref
 *    DoxyRequirements).
 *  - gdcm comes with \ref DoxyPythonComplete it's
 *    <A HREF="http://www.python.org">Python</A> wrappers.
 * .
 *
 * \section DoxyLimitation Design limitations
 *  - gdcm does not implement any other part of the Dicom base standard as
 *    opposed to
 *    <A HREF="http://www.erl.wustl.edu/DICOM/ctn.html">CTN</A>
 *    or
 *    <A HREF="http://www.offis.de/projekte/ig/dicom/soft-docs/soft01_d.html">
 *    DCMTK</A>. In particular gdcm is not aware of:
 *    -# the Dicom network file exchange protocol.
 *    -# the Dicom media storage formats.
 *    .
 *  .
 *
 *
 * \section DoxyTODO Features to come (TODO list)
 *  - offer Dicom jpeg compressed image support,
 *  - enable Dicom header parsing of sequences and overlays,
 *  - distribute a <A HREF="http://public.kitware.com/VTK/">VTK</A>
 *    thin wrapper of gdcm (essentially a vtkGdcmImageReader).
 *  .
 * Installing gdcm and gdcmPyton: \ref DoxyInstallation 
 */