Why is LEADTOOLS' DICOM Developer Support the Best?

LEADTOOLS provides extensive support for DICOM files (all classes/modalities DICOMDIR, CR, CT, MR, NM, US, RF, SC, VL, etc.) in the Medical Imaging toolkit, allowing you to create and save new DICOM files, or read, modify and save existing DICOM files. With this support you can do the following:

Support for 8, 10, 12, 16, 24 and 32 bit grayscale images including JPEG (8, 10, 12, 16-bit Lossless grayscale, 8, 12 bit lossy grayscale, 24-bit lossless and lossy color), JPEG2000 (including lossy and lossless 8-16 bit grayscale images and 24-bit color) Run Length, Uncompressed, Photometric Interpretation (Monochrome1, Monochrome2, Palletized, RGB, ARGB, CMYK, YBR Full 422, YBR Full, YBR_RCT, YBR_ICT), and single and multi-frame images.

Complete support for the DICOM 3, including all standard IOD classes and modalities (CR, CT, MR, NM, US, RF, SC, VL, etc.) and VR's (value representations)
Provides easy implementation and full support for DICOM Basic Directory. High-level objects to create DICOMDIR in few lines of code.
Change one transfer syntax to another transfer syntax with one function call.
Automatic recognition of DICOM files (Little-Endian/Big-Endian, Implicit/Explicit VR, etc.) High level and low level functions for easy navigation and manipulation (insert, delete, modify) of Data Sets
Single or multi-frame images (compressed or uncompressed)
Largest set of hardware manufacturers supported.
Contains ready to use source code and executables.
3 different Programming interfaces to DICOM - API, C++ Class Library and .NET Classes.
Supports all VR's (Value Representation) in DICOM standard including “Other Float String”.
High-level and low-level functions for easy navigation and manipulation (insert, delete, modify) of data sets.
LEADTOOLS automatically adds the Item Delimitation Item, and Sequence Delimitation Item to simplify Nesting of Data Sets (VR of “SQ”).
Easy to manipulate ordinal positioning of Items (FFFE,E000).
Simplified handling of repeating groups (multiple overlays and curve data)
Supports Encapsulated or Native encoding of Pixel Data for Single or multi-frame compressed or uncompressed images.
DICOM LUT/Overlay/Palette support. The high-level support for Modality LUT, VOI LUT, Palette Color Image in LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging means developers can implement DICOM Presentation state into an application with ease. LEADTOOLS can also aapply the Modality LUT to the image data to further simplify image processing and statistical calculations.
DICOM Annotation Object support. Store/retrieve DICOM annotations from a dataset and convert them to LEAD Annotation objects and vice versa. Annotations can also be converted to regions of interest for additional statistical calculations and for storing to DICOM Presentation State.
Cookie cutter tool: Extract individual slices from a radiographic scanned film (useful for identifying each slice inside a scanned MRI or CT series).
MRI Brain Analysis Tool: Used to calculate the ratio between the corpus callosm (the white matter in the middle of the brain that looks like the letter X) and the brain sphere.

For more information about the DICOM file format and LEADTOOLS support of DICOM, click a link below.