Fellow Oak DICOM

License

This library is licensed under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). See License.txt for more information.

Features

• Portable Class Library (PCL)
• Targets .NET 4.5.2 and higher, .NET Core (.NET Standard 1.3 and higher), Universal Windows Platform, Xamarin iOS, Xamarin Android, Mono and Unity
• DICOM dictionary version 2017a
• High-performance, fully asynchronous async/await API
• JPEG (including lossless), JPEG-LS, JPEG2000, and RLE image compression (limited on .NET Core, Xamarin, Mono and Unity platforms)
• Supports very large datasets with content loading on demand
• Platform-specific image rendering
• JSON support
• XML export (preview)
• Anonymization (preview)

Installation

Easiest is to obtain fo-dicom binaries from NuGet. This package reference the core fo-dicom assemblies for all Microsoft and Xamarin platforms.

NuGet Packages

Valid for version 3.0.0 (incl. pre-releases) and later

Package	Description
fo-dicom	Dependencies package including core libraries for Microsoft and Xamarin platforms
fo-dicom.Portable	Core library for PCL Profile 111
fo-dicom.Desktop	Core library and native codec libraries for .NET 4.5.2 and higher
fo-dicom.NetCore	Core library for .NET Core applications, Level 1.3 and higher
fo-dicom.Universal	Core library and native codec libraries for Universal Windows Platform
fo-dicom.Android	Core library for Xamarin Android
fo-dicom.iOS	Core library for Xamarin iOS (Unified)
fo-dicom.log4net	.NET connector to enable fo-dicom logging with log4net
fo-dicom.MetroLog	PCL Profile 111 connector to enable fo-dicom logging with MetroLog
fo-dicom.NLog	.NET connector to enable fo-dicom logging with NLog
fo-dicom.Serilog	.NET connector to enable fo-dicom logging with Serilog
fo-dicom.Json	PCL profile 111 library for JSON I/O support
fo-dicom.Legacy	PCL profile 111 library with obsolete asynchronous methods (to be deprecated)

API Documentation

The API documentation for the core library (represented by fo-dicom.Desktop) and the log4net, NLog and Serilog connectors is available here.

Usage Notes

Image rendering configuration

Out-of-the-box, fo-dicom for .NET defaults to Windows Forms-style image rendering. To switch to WPF-style image rendering, call:

ImageManager.SetImplementation(WPFImageManager.Instance);

Logging configuration

By default, logging defaults to the no-op NullLogerManager. On .NET, several log managers are available and can be enabled like this:

LogManager.SetImplementation(ConsoleLogManager.Instance);  // or ...
LogManager.SetImplementation(NLogManager.Instance);        // or ...

On Universal Windows Platform, Xamarin iOS, Xamarin Android and Mono there is only one operational log manager available, namely MetroLogManager.Instance.

Cross-platform development

To facilitate cross-platform development, the core library is strong name signed and denoted Dicom.Core.dll on all platforms. From an assembly reference point-of-view this convention makes the core assemblies mutually replaceable. It is thus possible to develop a Portable Class Library that depends on the PCL Dicom.Core assembly, and when the developed Portable Class Library is used in a platform-specific application, the PCL Dicom.Core assembly can be replaced with the platform-specific Dicom.Core assembly without needing to re-build anything. fo-dicom.Json and fo-dicom.MetroLog are examples of portable class libraries that depend on the PCL Dicom.Core.dll.

The assembly naming convention is often referred to as the bait-and-switch trick. The fo-dicom package supports the bait-and-switch trick by automatically selecting the best suited Dicom.Core assembly depending on the targeted platform of the development project upon download from NuGet.

Important notice for Universal Windows Platform applications

For versions 3.0.0 and earlier, UWP applications using fo-dicom.Universal does not out-of-the-box build to .NET Native. A workaround is provided here.

Sample applications

There are a number of simple sample applications that use fo-dicom available in separate repository here. These also include the samples that were previously included in the Examples sub-folder of the VS solutions.

Examples

File Operations

var file = DicomFile.Open(@"test.dcm");             // Alt 1
var file = await DicomFile.OpenAsync(@"test.dcm");  // Alt 2

var patientid = file.Dataset.Get<string>(DicomTag.PatientID);

file.Dataset.Add(DicomTag.PatientsName, "DOE^JOHN");

// creates a new instance of DicomFile
file = file.ChangeTransferSyntax(DicomTransferSyntax.JPEGProcess14SV1);

file.Save(@"output.dcm");             // Alt 1
await file.SaveAsync(@"output.dcm");  // Alt 2

Render Image to JPEG

var image = new DicomImage(@"test.dcm");
image.RenderImage().AsBitmap().Save(@"test.jpg");                     // Windows Forms
image.RenderImage().AsUIImage().AsJPEG().Save(@"test.jpg", true);     // iOS

C-Store SCU

var client = new DicomClient();
client.AddRequest(new DicomCStoreRequest(@"test.dcm"));
client.Send("127.0.0.1", 12345, false, "SCU", "ANY-SCP");             // Alt 1
await client.SendAsync("127.0.0.1", 12345, false, "SCU", "ANY-SCP");  // Alt 2

C-Echo SCU/SCP

var server = new DicomServer<DicomCEchoProvider>(12345);

var client = new DicomClient();
client.NegotiateAsyncOps();
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
    client.AddRequest(new DicomCEchoRequest());
client.Send("127.0.0.1", 12345, false, "SCU", "ANY-SCP");             // Alt 1
await client.SendAsync("127.0.0.1", 12345, false, "SCU", "ANY-SCP");  // Alt 2

C-Find SCU

var cfind = DicomCFindRequest.CreateStudyQuery(patientId: "12345");
cfind.OnResponseReceived = (DicomCFindRequest rq, DicomCFindResponse rp) => {
	Console.WriteLine("Study UID: {0}", rp.Dataset.Get<string>(DicomTag.StudyInstanceUID));
};

var client = new DicomClient();
client.AddRequest(cfind);
client.Send("127.0.0.1", 11112, false, "SCU-AE", "SCP-AE");             // Alt 1
await client.SendAsync("127.0.0.1", 11112, false, "SCU-AE", "SCP-AE");  // Alt 2

C-Move SCU

var cmove = new DicomCMoveRequest("DEST-AE", studyInstanceUid);

var client = new DicomClient();
client.AddRequest(cmove);
client.Send("127.0.0.1", 11112, false, "SCU-AE", "SCP-AE");             // Alt 1
await client.SendAsync("127.0.0.1", 11112, false, "SCU-AE", "SCP-AE");  // Alt 2