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File Formats: 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 various types. You can use the ReadComment method to read comments in an existing file. Before writing a file and the 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.