Note: This format is supported only in Document/Medical.

DICOM (DIC) files are commonly used in medical images. LEADTOOLS reads a broad range of DICOM formats, converting them to LEAD-supported bits-per-pixel as necessary. LEADTOOLS writes DICOM files in the LEAD-supported bits-per-pixel. DICOM files can contain many comment fields of varioius types. You can use the ReadComment method to read comments in an existing file. Before writing a file and the Generic WriteComments method to write comments to a file.

You can read DICOM files as follows:

You can write DICOM files as 8, 12, or 16-bit grayscale, 8-bit palettized color, or 24-bit RGB color (8 bits per plane).

The file constants associated with this file format are:

Constant	Read Support	Write Support	Description
RasterImageFormat.DicomGray	1 to 16 BPP (Grayscale)	1 to 16 BPP (Grayscale)	Grayscale DICOM uncompressed
RasterImageFormat.DicomColor	8, 24 BPP	8, 24 BPP	Color DICOM uncompressed
RasterImageFormat.DicomRleGray	8, 12, 16, 24 BPP	8, 12, 16, 24 BPP	Grayscale DICOM RLE compressed
RasterImageFormat.DicomRleColor	24 BPP	24 BPP	Color DICOM RLE compressed
RasterImageFormat.DicomJpegGray	8, 16 BPP (Grayscale)	8, 16 BPP (Grayscale)	Grayscale DICOM JPEG compressed
RasterImageFormat.DicomJpegColor	24 BPP	24 BPP	Color DICOM JPEG compressed
RasterImageFormat.DicomJ2kGray	8, 16 BPP (Grayscale)	8, 16 BPP (Grayscale)	Grayscale DICOM JPEG 2000 compressed
RasterImageFormat.DicomJ2kColor	24 BPP	24 BPP	Color DICOM JPEG 2000 compressed