Welcome to dicom4j (last published: Sunday 18 January 2009)

• What's new
• What is dicom4j?
• The framework
• Downloads
• Tutorials
• Dicom Applications
• Getting Help

What's new

• January 22, 2009: new framework release
• January 18, 2009: website update, 2 new application (DicomEditor and StoreSCU)
• December 15, 2008
  • new release (0.0.6)
  • new tutorials
• October 18, 2008
  • website's update
  • broken links's now are working

What is dicom4j?

The purpose of the dicom4j project is to provide java source code related to the Dicom Standard.

Each release contains sub-packages to answer differents need of for a dicom software developers :

• a dicom framework which implements the standards
• a toolkit which offer ways to develop software based on the framework
• samples class to show how to use the framework (source code are better than a formal docs)
• stand alone applications based, these application can be used by end-user or for tests purpose. (see: Dicom Applications)

Why use this framework ?

• All source code are avaible and can be used for commercial and non-commercial use
• Source code use others framework to not "re-invent the wheel"
• Source code is well comment and respect the Test driven approch
• Application based on the framework are fully fonctionnal and show how it is easy to develop a dicom software with a big knowledge of the standard

The project is a work in progress, crontribution is encouraged. If you think of area/software this project doesn't cover please fell free to contact me. Every help will be appreciate

The framework

Features

At the current stage of the developement, the framework offer the folloming features:

• dicom dictionary (part 6)
• Read/write dicom files
• Send/receive data from the network (based on apache's mina)
• dimse service (verification, store, worklist, etc...)
• logging fonctionalities (based on slf4j and log4j)

Contents of a release

Each release will contains the following directory/files:

• dist
  • dicom4j-X.X.X.jar: the framework as a jar file
  • dicom4j-log4j.properties: a default log4j configuration
• docs
  • Api: the javadoc API
• src
  • main: the framework source code
  • samples: some sample class showing how to use the framework
  • test: all test cases
  • toolkit: the toolkit source code (currently in progress)
  • utils: some utils source code needed to creates source code from xml files

Note: since the release 0.0.6, there only one zip file with both bin and src



Downloads

Current version

• dicom4j_0.0.7

Previous versions can be obtained from the sourceForge download page

History of framework's versions can be found here

Acces to SVN repository

The source code is also avaible via the Subversion (SVN) repository (https://dicom4j.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dicom4j, user: anonymous and no password)

the repository is organize in this way:

• {project}/current: the current unstable source code in developpement (used to creates the next release)
• {project}/previous: the previous stable released source code

Requirements

You must follow this requirements to run/build the framework.

• Java version 5.0 or newer
• Ant (to build from source code)



Tutorials

You will find here some usefull tutorials showing how to use the framework, depending of types of application you want to make. A tutorial consist in:

• the related domain
• the description of what we want to do
• the description of each steps
• the complete source code sample

Manipulating Dicom Data

• How to read a Dicom file

Network communications

• how to create a basic Echo SCU
• how to create a C-Echo SCP
• how to create an SCP server



Dicom Applications

description

dicom4j-apps is a sub-project of dicom4j (dicom framework in java). It's pupose is to offer some "small" applications related to Dicom Area.

List of applications

Name	Features	Details	Screenshot	Version	Downloads
Dicom Editor	Open/save dicom files Change values of DataSet's items			0.1 - beta
Store SCU	Perform Store request manage Storage commit			0.1 - beta
Worklist SCU	Perform Basic Modality Worlist Find request			0.1 - beta






Getting Help

If you find other issues, or need additional help, by all means you can email or go to the sourceforge's page . Someone will get back to you to try to assist you.

We hope you enjoy using dicom4j and find it useful. Comments, suggestions and questions are encouraged, so don't be shy - send us an email and let us know what you think!