DICOM

From IGSTK

Image data must be stored in DICOM format in order to be loaded into IGSTK applications. The purpose of this requirement is patient safety: the DICOM standard enforces the inclusion of patient and study-related information that IGSTK uses as safety checks.

The current DICOM reader used by IGSTK is GDCM which is used via ITK's GDCM-based image reader classes.

The DCMTK package provides a good set of command-line tools for manipulating and decoding DICOM files.