DICOM Format (DIC)

DICOM (DIC) files are commonly used in medical images. LEADTOOLS writes DICOM files in the LEAD-supported bits-per-pixel. DICOM files can contain many comment fields of various types. You can write DICOM files as 8, 12, or 16-bit grayscale, 8-bit palletized color, or 24-bit RGB color (8 bits per plane).

The file constants associated with this file format are:

Constant

Write Support

Description

FILE_DICOM_GRAY

1 to 16 BPP (Grayscale)

[89] Grayscale DICOM uncompressed.

FILE_DICOM_COLOR

8, 24 BPP

[90] Color DICOM uncompressed.

FILE_DICOM_RLE_GRAY

xxxx

[125] Grayscale DICOM RLE compressed.

FILE_DICOM_RLE_COLOR

xxxx

[126] Color DICOM RLE compressed.

FILE_DICOM_JPEG_GRAY

8, 16 BPP (Grayscale)

[127] Grayscale DICOM JPEG compressed.

FILE_DICOM_JPEG_COLOR

24 BPP

[128] Color DICOM JPEG compressed.

FILE_DICOM_J2K_GRAY

8, 16 BPP (Grayscale)

[293] Grayscale DICOM JPEG 2000 compressed.

FILE_DICOM_J2K_COLOR

24 BPP

[294] Color DICOM JPEG 2000 compressed.

 

Required DLL: LTDIC. For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, refer to ePrint Files.

Related Formats: EXIF - Exif Formats, JPG - JPEG Compressed, JP2 - JPEG 2000 Compressed, TIFF - Tagged Image File Format.