The LEADTOOLS DICOM Communication SDK technology provides high-level communications components that simplify the creation of DICOM client/server applications (e.g., PACS) with complete implementations for all DICOM service classes such as Verification, Query/Retrieve, Storage, and Patient Management.

With a LEADTOOLS product that includes DICOM Communication SDK technology, .NET (C# & VB, Core, Xamarin), C/C++, iOS, macOS, and Linux developers can create unified and seamless solutions by adding DICOM communications to their applications and creating middleware to connect disparate devices, applications, and PACS systems.

Overview of LEADTOOLS DICOM Communication SDK Technology

  • Complete support for Message Exchange, including DIMSE (DICOM Message Service Element) service users and providers, and Message Exchange Upper Layer Protocol
  • Multiple clients and servers via asynchronous or synchronous TCP/IP connections
  • High-level functions that initiate and terminate associations, thereby automating the filling of PDU structures (Protocol Data Units)
  • Automatic and transparent conversion between specific transfer syntaxes required by the associated application entities
  • High-level functions and components automate DICOM Request and Response command sets, greatly simplify the addition of DICOM communication to your application
  • High-level DICOM Print library
  • Secure data transmission with TLS and ISCL security profiles
  • Designed to make it easy to keep encryption in your application up to date and change as the DICOM standard changes
  • Use IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
  • Low-level functions to customize network sockets

With the LEADTOOLS DICOM Communication SDK Technology, Developers Can:

  • Open and initialize a DICOM network connection
  • Create a DICOM Associate Connection to transfer data and messages
  • Customize the DICOM Associate Connection for data and transfer types
  • Retrieve information about the DICOM Associate Connection
  • Retrieve information about the DICOM Network Connection
  • Send and receive messages using either the high-level or low-level functions
  • Create consumers and providers for any DICOM service class, including:
    • Any DICOM Message Service Element (DIMSE)
    • Basic Worklist Management
    • Media Storage
    • Patient Management
    • Print Management
    • Queue Management
    • Query/Retrieve
    • Storage Commitment
    • Storage Service
    • Study Content Notification
    • Study Management
    • Verification
    • Results Management

Create DIMSE-C services associated with composite SOP classes:

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

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

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

AE's can serve in one of two roles:

  • Invoke a DIMSE-service-user (SCU)
  • Perform a DIMSE-service-user (SCP)

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Documentation Links for DICOM Communication

Supported Development Platforms for DICOM Communication

Demo Applications that Include DICOM Communication

HTML5/JavaScript Medical Web Viewer Framework

A zero-footprint Medical viewer with light and dark themes to display DICOM images (pixel data) with window level, density removal, offset, scale, zoom, stack, annotation/markup, and multi-touch support for phone, tablet, and desktop.

It demonstrates zero-footprint 3D volume rendering of multiple volume types including VRT, MIP, MPR, and SSD in the Medical Web Viewer. The viewer does not require browser plugins, desktop utilities, or remote desktop clients and features low resolution and caching options for faster rendering and loading.

Note: If you have your own test images that you would like to upload into the application, contact support@leadtools.com to have a private user profile created.

Screenshots of DICOM Communication

DICOM Storage Server

DICOM Storage Server

DICOM Client Demo

DICOM Client Demo

DICOM Store Demo

DICOM Store Demo

Videos of DICOM Communication

DICOM Storage Server

The LEADTOOLS DICOM Storage Server Framework is a collection of high-level .NET components engineered for quickly building robust, full-featured, and secure DICOM Storage Server applications. The framework includes a fully-functional OEM-ready application, extensible add-in components, and the full source code for easy branding and customization.

LEADTOOLS SDK Products that Include DICOM Communication

LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging v20

Develop robust DICOM PACS applications with LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging. Features include Medical Web Viewer Framework, high and low-level PACS SCP and SCU functions and controls, secure PACS communication, comprehensive DICOM data set support, image annotation, extended grayscale image display such as window level and LUT processing, and specialized medical image processing. Other features include lossless JPEG compression, JPIP, MRTI, and signed and unsigned image data processing.

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite v20

Develop powerful PACS and Medical imaging applications with LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite. Features include LEAD's Zero-footprint HTML5 DICOM Viewer, Medical Web Viewer Framework, Medical 3D, DICOM Multimedia codecs, high and low-level PACS SCP and SCU functions and controls, secure PACS communication, Print to PACS, comprehensive DICOM data set support, image annotation, extended grayscale image display such as window level and LUT processing, DICOM Hanging Protocol, and specialized medical image processing. Other features include lossless JPEG compression, JPIP, and signed and unsigned image data processing.