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:

WIC Codec CLSID	WIC Codec Subformat	RasterImageViewer.Save File Constant	Read Support	Write Support	Description
CLSID_WICLeadDicomEncoder	WICLeadSubFormatDicomGray	DicomGray	1 to 16 BPP (Grayscale)	1 to 16 BPP (Grayscale)	Grayscale DICOM uncompressed
CLSID_WICLeadDicomEncoder	WICLeadSubFormatDicomColor	DicomColor	8, 24 BPP	8, 24 BPP	Color DICOM uncompressed
CLSID_WICLeadDicomEncoder	WICLeadSubFormatDicomRleGray	DicomRleGray	8, 12, 16, 24 BPP	8, 12, 16, 24 BPP	Grayscale DICOM RLE compressed
CLSID_WICLeadDicomEncoder	WICLeadSubFormatDicomRleColor	DicomRleColor	24 BPP	24 BPP	Color DICOM RLE compressed
CLSID_WICLeadDicomEncoder	WICLeadSubFormatDicomJpegGray	DicomJpegGray	8, 16 BPP (Grayscale)	8, 16 BPP (Grayscale)	Grayscale DICOM JPEG compressed
CLSID_WICLeadDicomEncoder	WICLeadSubFormatDicomJpegColor	DicomJpegColor	24 BPP	24 BPP	Color DICOM JPEG compressed
CLSID_WICLeadDicomEncoder	WICLeadSubFormatDicomJ2kGray	DicomJ2kGray	8, 16 BPP (Grayscale)	8, 16 BPP (Grayscale)	Grayscale DICOM JPEG 2000 compressed
CLSID_WICLeadDicomEncoder	WICLeadSubFormatDicomJ2kColor	DicomJ2kColor	24 BPP	24 BPP	Color DICOM JPEG 2000 compressed

Required DLL: Leadtools.Dicom.Dll. For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application.