I use pydicom[1] quite a lot. It is an open source, pure Python module for reading & writing DICOM files. Works very well by essentially transforming the whole DICOM file into a big dictionary.
pydicom is nice but it lacks network functionality: find, send, store and so on. And it cannot decompress jpegs.
Two large open source toolkits are dcmtk[1] and gdcm[2]. Both comes with commandline applications for viewing dicom files and querying pacs servers. gdcm is bundled with itk[3].
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I use pydicom[1] quite a lot. It is an open source, pure Python module for reading & writing DICOM files. Works very well by essentially transforming the whole DICOM file into a big dictionary.
[1]https://code.google.com/p/pydicom/
pydicom is nice but it lacks network functionality: find, send, store and so on. And it cannot decompress jpegs. Two large open source toolkits are dcmtk[1] and gdcm[2]. Both comes with commandline applications for viewing dicom files and querying pacs servers. gdcm is bundled with itk[3].
[1] http://dicom.offis.de/dcmtk.php.en
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gdcm/
[3] http://www.itk.org/