Java Dicom Toolkit Documentation

This is the documentation of Trispark's Java DICOM Toolkit.

Getting started

A good way to get started is to have a look at the examples included in the distribution.We provide email support during the 30-day trial period of your evaluation. If you need help during your evaluation or have technical questions, please contact support via email at support@trispark.com.

For more information, consult the following sections of the user guide:

• Installing JDT
• Working with DICOM files and Datasets
• DICOM Networking
• Logging

Features at a glance

The Trispark Java DICOM Toolkit is a small footprint 100% java library and API for building DICOM applications. The library has the following features:

• Up-to-date DICOM dictionary classes covering all tags,transfer syntaxes, sop classes and other UID's defined in the 2008 edition of the DICOM standard
• DICOM PART 10 File support including automatic detection of DICOM files
• DICOM PART 8 Network support for creating 'associations' over TCP/IP and connecting to DICOM devices, including support for SCP/SCU role negotiation, maximum operations setting, extended negotiations and easy exchange of DIMSE commands and Data Sets over associations.
• Support for all non-compressed transfer syntaxes and transfer syntax conversion when reading/writing DICOM files and streams.
• All VR's are supported including newly added OF (Other Float).
• Sequences can be read or written with defined or undefined length.
• Sequence delimitation items and Item delimitation items are added automatically when necessary.
• Support for RLE encoding and JPEG encoding
• Read/Write DICOM data to InputStreams/OutputStreams using the normal java.io streams concepts.
• Easy manipulation of sequences and positioning of sequence items with utility classes
• Straight-forward type mapping of DICOM VR's to native Java Types.

Standard email support and updates

Customers having purchased a distribution license and/or source code license are entitled to one year of technical support via email starting from the purchase date. The support also includes minor updates and bug fix releases. If you have any technical questions contact support@trispark.com. Support can be renewed annually.

Resources

This software ibrary requires a basic understanding of the DICOM standard. The DICOM standard is quite an extensive standard published by

National Electrical Manufacturers Association 1300 N. 17th Street Rosslyn, Virginia 22209 USA

The official ACR/NEMA home page of the DICOM standard is http://medical.nema.org.

A very good site on DICOM with links to the various parts of the standard, correction proposals and supplements in PDF format is David Clunie's Medical Imaging Format site.

The parts of the DICOM standard that are particularly relevant with respect to this library are:

• Part 5: Data Structures and Encoding
• Part 7: Message Exchange
• Part 8: Network Communication Support for Message Exchange
• Part 10: Media Storage and File Format for Data Interchange