Re: [Boost-users] Writing dicom images

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Writing dicom images
From: Peter Klotz (peter.klotz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-18 15:02:23

Hello David

> Hello, I am new to Boost.  I work in the medical imaging field and am 
> looking for a set of functions and/or libraries in c++ that can be used 
> to write raw (pixel) data to dicom images.  I am also fairly new to c++ 
> as well as dicom images.  Is there a separate dicom header library?  I 
> have implemented much of what I need to do in Matlab using /dicomwrite/ 
> and want to mimic that function in c++.  Does something similar to that 
> exist?

You may want to have a look at DICOM Toolkit (DCMTK):

http://dicom.offis.de/dcmtk

I recommend downloading a recent snapshot instead of 3.5.4 which is 
already 3 years old:

http://dicom.offis.de/download/dcmtk/snapshot/

DCMTK covers large parts of the DICOM standard including pixel data 
manipulation.

Regards, Peter.