DICOM Communications Included in LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite

LEADTOOLS DICOM Communications provides COMPLETE support for DICOM Communications, including all Service Classes (Verification, Storage, Query/Retrieve, Patient Management, etc.), and contains high-level communications functions simplifying the creation of DICOM client/server applications.

Features include

• Support for TCP/IP multiple clients and multiple servers, working in Asynchronous or Synchronous mode.
• High-level functions for initiating and terminating Associations (connections between DICOM applications), automating the process of filling out PDU structures (Protocol Data Units).
• Automatic and transparent conversion of DICOM Data Sets to/from the specific Transfer Syntax required by the associated Application Entities (the connected DICOM client(s) and server(s)).
• High-level functions that automate sending DICOM Request and Response Command Sets (Services), greatly simplifying the process of coding application communications.
• Complete support for Message Exchange, including DIMSE (DICOM Message Service Element) service user and provider, and Message Exchange Upper Layer Protocol.
• High-level DICOM Print support (create a print SCU in a very short time).

With this DICOM Communications support you can do the following:

• Create and initialize a DICOM Network Connection.
• Create a DICOM Associate Connection to allow the transfer of data and messages.
• Customize the DICOM Associate Connection for the type of data you wish to transfer and the manner in which to transfer the data.
• Retrieve information about the DICOM Network Connection.
• Retrieve information about the DICOM Associate Connection.
• Send and receive messages using either high-level or low-level functions.
• Support for the DICOM Verification Service Class.
• Support for the DICOM Storage Service Class.
• Support for the DICOM Query/Retrieve Service Class.
• Support for the DICOM Study Content Notification Service Class.
• Support for the DICOM Patient Management Service Class.
• Support for the DICOM Study Management Service Class.
• Support for the DICOM Results Management Service Class.
• Support for the DICOM Print Management Service Class.
• Support for the DICOM Media Storage Service Class.
• Support for the DICOM Storage Commitment Service Class.
• Support for the DICOM Basic Worklist Management Service Class.
• Support for the DICOM Queue Management Service Class.
• Supports all DICOM Message Service Element (DIMSE).

Support DIMSE-C service associated with composite SOP Classes:

• C Store Request
• C Store Response
• C Find Request
• C Find Response
• C Get Request
• C Get Response
• C Move Request
• C Move Response
• C Cancel Request
• C Echo Request
• C Echo Response

Support DIMSE-N service associated with normalized SOP Classes and provide an extended set of operations and notifications:

• N Event Report Request
• N Event Report Response
• N Get Request
• N Get Response
• N Set Request
• N Set Response
• N Action Request
• N Action Response
• N Create Request
• N Create Response
• N Delete Request
• N Delete Response

When using DICOM Messages, AE's can serve in one of two roles:

• Invoking DIMSE-service-user (SCU)
• Performing DIMSE-service-user (SCP)

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Pricing Structure

Product	Price	Purchase	Try
LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite	†$7995		Free Trial

†Marked toolkits require runtime licensing based on the deployment of the application you develop. Several purchase options are available. For more information, please contact oemsales@leadtools.com or call a LEAD sales representative.