Editor: QTPluginDicom expands the QTPlugin with a set of classes (21), modules (1) and global methods (6) that allows you to work with DICOM data structures. Some of these classes was originally present into the version 5.5 of the QTPlugin . Starting with version 6.0 of the QTPlugin , has been decided to split off the Dicom services into a different plugin; in fact, such services are not strictly Connected to the traditional area of interest of a QuickTime developer, but, anyway, they can accomplish their tasks using the QuickTime API.
In brief, the QTPluginDicom classes enable you to:
* read/write data elements from/to data sets
* Create anonymous copies of data elements
* create DICOMDIR (containing a Basic Directory Information data structure) files from scratch
* Playback Pixel data
* convert sequences of frames and still images into the appropriate pixel data elements and associate them to DICOM data structures
While the plugin allows you to retrieve virtually any information contained into a DICOM document, its support for the display and conversion of data is not complete. To find more about the actual limits of the plugin you can read the QTPluginDicom Support Notes document.
Also, the QTPluginDicom Functional Details document summarizes the plugin capabilities.
What's New
The latest plugin version introduces many improvements and new features to the plugin API intended to improve your developing experience; the most significatives of them are:
* updated the built-in data elements standard dictionary, the transfer syntaxes and SOP classes list to the latest release ( 2008 ) of the DICOM 3 standard
* added one new module to accomplish general purpose tasks related to DICOM data structures handling
* added new classes to retrieve and manage informations about the chunks of data stored into DICOM files
