DICOM @ OFFIS

If an application calling the Offis dcmnet toolkit is thread-safe, does that also make the toolkit itself thread-safe? That is, is it always necessary to modify the toolkit itself? Also, I was wondering where to find a good set of documentation on the toolkit's code, as distinguished from the applic...

Have any third-party developers and/or open-source groups done a thread-safe implementation of the Offis dcmnet toolkit for C++ under Win32? What are the issues in doing so, as opposed to doing this for Posix?

-- Clay Dooley

I am using the Offis DCMTK, and findscu in particular, to perform queries and retrieves with a PACS system. I have a need in the application I am developing to retrieve the modality for each study record returned. Is there any way to retrieve the modality for a study, querying on patient ID or study...

Thank you for the tip. I have found that with the new toolkit, which includes a configuration file for storescp that enables receiving both RLE and JPEG images from the same study, it is possible to perform a Query/Retrieve that receives both kinds of images. One specifies storescp's AETitle in the ...

I am working on a project that includes a query/retrieve capability implemented by "wrapping" the movescu application in a dll. My problem is that our clients (hospitals which perform heart ultrasounds) like to use Acuson Sequoia ultrasound machines, which store single-frame images compres...