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+Gdcm is yet another C++ library dedicated to reading/parsing and writing
+<A HREF="http://medical.nema.org/">Dicom</A> medical files.
+<BR>
+<B>GDCM</B>stands as a short for "<B>G</B>rass roots
+<B>D</B>i<B>C</B>o<B>M</B>.
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+<H2>What gdcm IS</H2>
+<UL>
+<LI>gdcm implements the
+ <A HREF="http://www.dclunie.com/dicom-status/status.html">
+ dicom base standard <B>part 5</B></A>
+ that concentrates on image file format.
+ Hence gdcm supports the following formats:
+ <UL>
+ <LI>ACR-NEMA version 1 and 2
+ </LI>
+ <LI>Dicom version 3 (including various encoding like jpeg or RLE).
+ </LI>
+ </UL>
+</LI>
+<LI>gdcm is distributed with
+ <A HREF="License.html">Berkeley-like license</A>.
+</LI>
+<LI>gdcm targets both GNU/Un*ces and Windows/VC++
+ (refer to
+ <A HREF="html.developper/DoxyInstallation.html#DoxyRequirements">
+ requirements</A>
+ for details).
+</LI>
+<LI>gdcm comes with a
+ <A HREF="http://public.kitware.com/VTK">VTK</A>
+ shallow wrapper class vtkGdcmReader (refer to
+ <A HREF="">VtkGdcm.html</A>)
+ to ease the burden of VTK users,
+<LI>gdcm also comes with
+ <A HREF="html.developper/DoxyPythonComplete.html">gdcmPython</A>
+ it's
+ <A HREF="http://www.swig.org">SWIG</A>
+ generated
+ <A HREF="http://www.python.org">Python</A>
+ wrappers.
+</LI>
+</UL>
+
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+<H2>What gdcm is NOT</H2>
+
+Except for
+<A HREF="http://www.dclunie.com/dicom-status/status.html">
+ dicom base standard <B>part 5</B></A>
+gdcm does NOT implement any other part of the Dicom base standard
+(as opposed to other C++ based with open license libraries like
+<A HREF="http://www.offis.de/projekte/ig/dicom/soft-docs/soft01_d.html">
+ DCMTK </A>.
+or
+<A HREF="http://www.erl.wustl.edu/DICOM/ctn.html">CTN</A>).
+<BR>
+In particular <B>gdcm is not aware</B> of:
+<UL>
+<LI>the Dicom network file exchange protocol,
+</LI>
+<LI>the Dicom media storage formats,
+</LI>
+<LI>ANY OTHER PART of Dicom.
+</LI>
+</UL>
+
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+<H2>What gdcm still misses</H2>
+
+Among all the features of the
+<A HREF="http://www.dclunie.com/dicom-status/status.html">
+ dicom part 5</A>
+gdcm doesn't implement (yet?)
+<UL>
+ <LI>the integration of (optional) overlays on image.
+ </LI>
+</UL>
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