DICOM Format (DIC)
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 LFile::ReadComment function to read comments in an existing file. Before writing a file, you can use the LFileSettings::SetComment function to create an array of comments to be saved in the file.
You can read DICOM files as follows:
Grayscale files in the 1- to 16-bit range are loaded as they are in the original file.
Palettized color files in the 1- to 16-bit range are converted to 8-bit palettized or 24-bit unpalettized. By default, they are converted to 24-bit only if the palette contains more than 256 colors.
Unpalettized color files (RGB, ARGB, or CMYK) with 1 to 16 bits per plane are converted to 24-bit RGB.
Read multipage DICOM files by setting the page number in LOADFILEOPTION.
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 |
FILE_DICOM_GRAY |
1 to 16 BPP (Grayscale) |
1 to 16 BPP (Grayscale) |
[89] Grayscale DICOM uncompressed. |
FILE_DICOM_COLOR |
8, 24 BPP |
8, 24 BPP |
[90] Color DICOM uncompressed. |
FILE_DICOM_RLE_GRAY |
xxxx |
xxxx |
[125] Grayscale DICOM RLE compressed. |
FILE_DICOM_RLE_COLOR |
xxxx |
xxxx |
[126] Color DICOM RLE compressed. |
FILE_DICOM_JPEG_GRAY |
8, 16 BPP (Grayscale) |
8, 16 BPP (Grayscale) |
[127] Grayscale DICOM JPEG compressed. |
FILE_DICOM_JPEG_COLOR |
24 BPP |
24 BPP |
[128] Color DICOM JPEG compressed. |
FILE_DICOM_J2K_GRAY |
8, 16 BPP (Grayscale) |
8, 16 BPP (Grayscale) |
[293] Grayscale DICOM JPEG 2000 compressed. |
FILE_DICOM_J2K_COLOR |
24 BPP |
24 BPP |
[294] Color DICOM JPEG 2000 compressed. |
Required DLL: LTDIC. For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application.
Related Formats: EXIF - Exif Formats, JPG - JPEG Compressed, JP2 - JPEG 2000 Compressed, TIFF - Tagged Image File Format.