Introduction

The LEADTOOLS Medical Image Viewer Control API allows you to incorporate Image Viewer Control functions in your applications. It provides support for displaying one or more images and for the real-time manipulation of one or more images .LEADTOOLS Medical Image Viewer Control API functions are included with LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite

This API is a high-level component for building medical display applications such as DICOM viewers, view stations, Teleradiology solutions, and high-end diagnostic workstations found in radiology and other medical specialty departments. When building a PACS for radiology, cardiology, mammography, ophthalmology, pathology, dermatology, dentistry or any other specialty, this control will eliminate project complexity and provide a solid, reliable foundation.

Typical applications that can be built using this control include:

High-end medical diagnostic workstations.
Medical review and quality assurance stations.
DICOM viewers.
Light-weight viewers that are typically distributed on a CD with patient images.
Web-based medical viewers.

Key Features:

Display medical grayscale and colored images, including MRI, CT, Digital X-Ray, and Ultrasound.
Adjust screen layout both manually and programmatically. For example, you might display two different image series side by side at different scales.
Display overlay information on images, with full control over display text and its positioning inside each window. Includes built-in overlays such as window center, window width values, and field of view.
Built-in image manipulation tools, including:

Window level (brightness and contrast).
Zooming or scaling an image.
Panning or moving an image.
Image magnification.
Single-key or single-click stacking or moving from one image to another in a series.

Adjustable settings for each tool, such as:

Mouse button controls
Keyboard (hotkey) controls
Cursor display icon
Apply effects to a single image, or to all images in a series
Apply effects to a single series or to all series managed by the control
Apply effects programmatically or through user interaction.

Full control over display container properties, such as colors, cursors, and rulers.
Built-in adjustable ruler that scales to image DPI and zoom or scale factor.
Interpolated image display for higher quality.

Supported Environments

The toolkit comes in Win32 and x64 editions that can support development of software applications for any of the following environments:

Windows Vista

Windows XP

Windows 2000

For more information, refer to:

Programming with LEADTOOLS Medical Image Viewer

Example Programs

Summary of All Supported Image File Formats