5.0.0 introduced support for handling DICOM (acronym for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) files. Since version 6.0.0 of that plugin, all of the DICOM functionalities have been moved into a new separate plugin named .
This document is intended to provide additional informations about the capabilities of the when handling data contained into files compliant to the Dicom standard.
QTPluginDicom can interpret data contained within "flat" files compliant with the DICOM 3 Standard or ACR NEMA files (version 2 of standard). Also it can read data coming from DICOMDIR (containing a Basic Directory Information data structure) files. QTPluginDicom can create "flat" files compliant with the DICOM 3 Standard; these files can contain pixel data formatted as described in the section below.
The built–in DICOM dictionary is updated to the latest official release of the Dicom Standard (2009).
Using the QTPlgDicomVideoPresentation plugin class allows you to display on–screen sequences of frames or still images encapsulated within DICOM pixel data elements. At time QTPluginDicom recognizes the transfer syntaxes and photometric interpretations listed below.
Supported Transfer Syntaxes:
- full support for all of the uncompressed syntaxes listed by the Dicom Standard (whether big and little endian)
- support for JPEG Baseline 1 transfer syntax
- support for JPEG Lossless (Process 14) transfer syntax
- support for RLE transfer syntax
- support for JPEG 2000 transfer syntaxes
Supported Photometric Interpretations:
- full support for MONOCHROME 1 (all applicable bit depths)
- full support for MONOCHROME 2 (all applicable bit depths)
- support for RGB (since version 6.2.0 of the plugin, the Lookup Table Data Elements,if present, are applied to the pixel data)
- support for ARGB (since version 6.2.0 of the plugin, the Lookup Table Data Elements,if present, are applied to the pixel data)
The plugin allows to convert QuickTime movies and still images into raw data and then add them to a Dicom file by using the appropriate class derived from the QTPlgDicomConverter class. At time QTPluginDicom allows to encapsulate the converted data into DICOM structures using the transfer syntaxes and photometric interpretations listed below.
Supported Transfer Syntaxes:
- full support for all of the uncompressed syntaxes listed by the Dicom Standard (whether big and little endian)
Supported Photometric Interpretations:
- full support for MONOCHROME 1 (all applicable bit depths)
- full support for MONOCHROME 2 (all applicable bit depths)
- support for RGB
- support for ARGB