Adding notes, arrows, measurements, shapes, and other annotations to DICOM files for storage is extremely important when it comes to the health care industry. LEADTOOLS offers a number of methods to manipulate DICOM graphic and text annotations.

In the "Add and Save DICOM Annotations" blog, we walked through a few of the methods LEADTOOLS offers to manipulate DICOM graphic and text annotations. In this post, we will show how to set up DICOM image flags, edit and change the settings used to create DICOM annotations, and set up the presentation state identification.

A few days ago, we announced the latest major update to LEADTOOLS Version 19 and listed the updates made to the Document Imaging Engine. Today we're continuing in the excitement of this release and highlighting what's new in the LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Engine.

HTML5 Medical Viewer

• MPR (Multiplanar Reconstruction) with cross hairs
• Reference line enhancements
• User-interface tools and actions
  • Equalization spyglass
  • Shutter
  • Probe
  • Revealer

Desktop Medical Viewer

• Customization options for cell borders, orientation, window level range and more
• Annotation types
  • Norberg
  • PolyRuler
• Cobb Angle
• Control order of click precedence for annotations and mouse actions
• Cine playback option for stopping playback on last frame

DICOM Storage Server

• New export feature with options to anonymize and/or create DICOMDIR
• Search for "Other Patient IDs" tag
• Logging improvements
• Security updates

PACS Framework

• Study Date option for Patient Updater
• Options for sending Storage Commit responses on the same connection
• Customization options for PACS service EXE

HL7

• Support for sending message versions 2.5.1 and 2.3.1
• Field validation
• Ability to save messages in HL7 demo

DICOM

• Memory optimizations for large images and C-Store requests
• New callbacks and helpers to help identify corrupt and problematic data set files

CCOW

• Redesigned server is simpler and more customizable
• CCOW web interfaces
• JavaScript library for communicating with CCOW components

To read more about this exciting update, see the official press release!

As part of the LEAD Technologies 25th anniversary, we are creating 25 projects in 25 days to celebrate LEAD's depth of features and ease of use. Today's project comes from James.

What it Does

This project will monitor a folder and import DICOM files into a PACS Storage Server using LEADTOOLS Version 19.

As part of the LEAD Technologies 25th anniversary, we are creating 25 projects in 25 days to celebrate LEAD's depth of features and ease of use. Today's project comes from Joe.

What it Does

This project embeds PDF documents inside DICOM Data Sets using LEADTOOLS Version 19.