Image File Formats: DICOM DICOM Format (DIC)
This format is only supported in the Medical Imaging toolkits

DICOM (DIC) files are commonly used in medical imaging. 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. LEADTOOLS faciliates the access and modification of the comments.

LEADTOOLS 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 with control of the page or frame number and number of pages or frames to load.

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

More information on the DICOM file format

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Each of the following product lines includes at least one product with the above functionality:

• Medical Imaging

The following products included the above functionality:

Pricing Structure

Product	Price	Purchase	Try
†LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro	$995		Free Trial
*LEADTOOLS Document Imaging	$2495		Free Trial
*LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging	$4995		Free Trial
†LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging Pro	$1995		Free Trial

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