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+<H2>(Important note for ITK users)</H2>
+
+ <UL>
+ <LI> ITK (Insight ToolKit) still uses gdcm 1.2.x
+ <LI> Current gdcm version is 1.3.x
+ </UL>
+
+<H2>(Important note for new DICOM users)</H2>
+ <UL>
+ <LI> An other version, called gdcm2 exists, an is a complete ground up rewrite of GDCM 1.x.
+ (have a look at <a href="http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/GDCM_Release_2.0">
+ http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/GDCM_Release_2.0
+ </a>)</br>
+ If you are a new DICOM user, better use gdcm2, because its structure will allow much more features than gdcm1.x does (it's almost exclusively 'image oriented')
+ </UL>
+
+<br><br><br>
+
+
Gdcm is yet another C++ library dedicated to reading/parsing and writing
<A HREF="http://medical.nema.org/">Dicom</A> medical files.
<UL>
<LI>the integration of (optional) overlays on image.
</li>
- <LI>a support to write files according to the
- <A HREF="ConformanceSummary.html">various classical Jpeg encodings</A>
- (only read methods are provided)
- </li>
- <LI>a support to deal with JPEG 2000 encodings</A>
- </li>
+ <LI> ...
+ </li>
</UL>
Gdcm also still needs
<UL>