MERGE DICOM TOOLKIT

DICOM Toolkit enables interoperability in medical imaging

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

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 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.

Minimize integration efforts

Access sample source code and utilities to minimize integration effort.

Choose from large DICOM data processing mechanisms

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

Leverage specialized APIs

Easily create and parse DICOM Structured Report and DICOMDIR.

DOCUMENTATION

Building a DICOM service in the cloud has never been simpler

C/C++ DICOM Toolkit

.NET/.NET Core/.NET 6/C# DICOM Toolkit

Java Platform DICOM Toolkit

Python DICOM Toolkit

Merge DICOM Toolkit Python User's Manual v5.21

Release Notes

Merge DICOM Toolkit v5.21 Release Notes

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

What’s new in v5.21

Added support for RLE compression/decompression of DICOM data with Bits Allocated equal to 1.

Upgraded Zlib library to version 3.1.3.

Upgraded Libxml2 library to version 2.14.2 for Merge DICOM Toolkits 64-bit Linux New Edition, 64-bit macOS New Edition and 64-bit Windows New Edition.

Fixed Zlib compression/decompression errors due to race conditions in multithreaded SCP/SCU operations.

Fixed the error in the calculation of data length of nested Sequence Elements when the data length of some internal attributes exceeds the allowed VR length (64K bytes).

Fixed the error in parsing the Toolkit configuration file when the locale is not "C" and the file contains control or non-graphic ASCII characters.

Fixed the error where VR UR attributes were not correctly validated for invalid values.

Extended logging of errors that might occur during the application build if Services and Items object definitions are missing.

What newly approved DICOM Supplements are supported in v5.21

228 Web Services for Volumetric Rendering

This Supplement applies to Merge DICOM .NET 4.5/4.8/Core/6/8 C# Toolkits,

Merge DICOM Java Toolkit and Merge DICOM Python Toolkit.

232 JPEG XL Transfer Syntaxes

236 Waveform Presentation State

240 Height Map Segmentation and Revised Ophthalmic OCT En Face Image

243 Label Map Segmentation

244 Frame Deflate Transfer Syntax

What DICOM platforms are supported for Microsoft Windows and Android?

Microsoft Windows Servers 2022/2016/2012/2008/2003 (32- and 64-bit): Visual C++, C#/.Net/.Net 4.5/.Net 4.8/.NET Core/.NET 6, Java, Python

Microsoft Windows 11/10/8/7/Vista/XP (32- and 64-bit): Visual C++, C#/.Net/.Net 4.5/.Net 4.8/.NET Core/.NET 6, Java, Python

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

What DICOM platforms are supported for Mac/iOS?

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)

What DICOM platforms are supported for Linux?

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

Linux (64-bit Intel): Python

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

What DICOM platforms are supported for Sun Solaris?

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)

Is Sample code included in the downloaded Software Packages?

The Toolkit Packages include fully working sample applications demonstrating basic DICOM operations and services, such as: image compression/decompression, queries, storage, printing, etc., for C/C++, .NET/C# and Java programming languages.