Merge DICOM Toolkit

DICOM Toolkit enables interoperability in medical imaging

Take advantage of the latest imaging standards and market-leading healthcare applications.

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Overview

Implement current DICOM imaging standards

Merge DICOM Toolkit is a comprehensive API that conforms to the latest DICOM standards. Highly optimized to work with any modality, imaging equipment, and healthcare information system, and  and updated with the most recent supplements and change proposals for the DICOM standard, Merge DICOM Toolkit provides end-to-end support for reaching a wide customer base.

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Minimize integration efforts

Access sample source code and utilities to minimize integration effort.

Operational Efficiency

Choose from large DICOM data processing mechanisms

With options for in-memory, file, or direct streaming.

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Leverage specialized APIs

Easily create and parse DICOM Structured Report and DICOMDIR.

Documentation

Building a DICOM service in the cloud has never been simpler

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C/C++ DICOM Toolkit

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.NET/.NET Core/.NET 5/C# DICOM Toolkit

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Java Platform DICOM Toolkit

FAQ

What's new with Merge DICOM Toolkit?

Enable and enhance your products with the latest imaging standards so you can focus on building great healthcare applications

Introduced in release 5.14:

  • Support for the SV, UV and OV 64-bt value representations recently adopted into the DICOM Standard.
  • Support for the SV, UV and OV 64-bt value representations for the JSON and XML Native models conversions.
  • Support for the Encapsulated Uncompressed Transfer Syntax recently adopted into the DICOM Standard.

 

Introduced in release 5.15:

  • A New Edition of the Merge DICOM C/C++ Toolkit for 64-bit Windows, built using Visual Studio 2019. The old edition, compiled with Visual Studio 2005, continues to be supported and updated in this release and future releases.
  • A New Edition of the Merge DICOM C/C++ Toolkit for 64-bit Linux, built using v9.4.0 of the GCC compiler. The old edition, compiled with GCC v4.0.2, continues to be supported and updated in this release and future releases.
  • Support for v70.1.0 of the ICU4C libraries for Unicode encoding/decoding in the New Editions of the Merge DICOM C/C++ Toolkit for the 64-bit Windows and Linux platforms.
  • A new Merge DICOM .NET/C# Toolkit targeting the .NET 4.8 Framework.

 

Introduced in release 5.16:

  • A New Edition of the Merge DICOM C/C++ Toolkit for 64-bit macOS platforms, containing universal binaries for Apple Silicon (M1) and Intel based (x64) architectures and built using Clang v14.0.0. The old edition, compiled with GCC v4.0.1 for 64-bit Intel based architectures only, continues to be supported and updated in this release and future releases.
  • Support for v70.1.0 of the ICU4C libraries for Unicode encoding/decoding in the New Edition of the Merge DICOM C/C++ Toolkit for the 64-bit macOS platforms.

In v5.14:

  • 160 Second Generation Radiotherapy - Patient Setup and Delivery Instruction
  • 220 Prostate Imaging Report Templates
  • 222 Microscopy Bulk Simple Annotations Storage SOP Class

In v5.16:

  • 223 Repository Query, Inventory IOD, and Related Services
  • 225 Multi-Fragment Video Transfer
  • 227 Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography Structured Report

Microsoft Windows Servers 2022/2016/2012/2008/2003 (32- and 64-bit): Visual C++, C#/.Net/.Net 4.5/.NET Core/.NET 5, Java, Python

Microsoft Windows 11/10/8/7/Vista/XP (32- and 64-bit): Visual C++, C#/.Net/.Net 4.5/.NET Core/.NET 5, Java, Python

Android 5.1.1 and higher on ARMv7(32 bit) and ARMv8 (64-bit): C/C++ (Android NDK 8b), Java

iOS on ARMv8 (64-bit): C/C++ (iPhone 8.4 sdk)

Mac OS X (32- and 64-bit): C/C++ (gcc), Java (64-bit only)

macOS (64-bit): C/C++ (gcc)

Linux (32- and 64-bit Intel): C/C++ (gcc), Java

Linux (64-bit Intel): Python

Linux on ARMv8 (64 bit): C/C++ (gcc)

Sun Solaris 8 Sparc (32-bit): C/C++ (gcc and Sun compiler), Java Sun Solaris 10 Intel (32- and 64-bit): C/C++ (gcc), Java (32-bit only)

  • Support for libxml2 upgraded from v2.9.10 to v2.10.2 for the New Edition of the Merge DICOM C/C++ Toolkit for 64-bit Windows, Linux and macOS.
  • Support for the Latin 9 ISO 8859-51 (or ISO IR 203) character set, recently added to the DICOM Standard.

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