DICOM Reading in C#.NET

DICOM Add-on developed by RasterEdge is a great component for creating medical image applications and viewing, reading & annotating DICOM images with flexible functions provided.

Create, load and save DICM Dataset
Create, read and save DICOM Directories
Create, modify and remove elements in a DICOM data set
Support JPEG 2000 Codec
Display and create DICOM overlays
Annotate DICOM images
More DICOM Reading functions

DICOM Reading

This guide tells users how to decode DICOM images and metadata with RasterEdge .NET Imaging SDK and DICOM plug-in using Visual C# sample codes. (For VB.NET developers, please go to DICOM Reading for VB.NET. Want to view Image and document in Winforms or Web applications, please go to Read DICOM Images in Winforms and Web Document Image DICOM Reading.)

Run Microsoft Visual Studio (2005 or later version);
Create a project with programming language - Visual C#;
Add RasterEdge.DotNetImaging.dll & RasterEdge.DotNetImaging.Dicom.dll to your Visual C# applications;
Call RasterEdge .NET Image Namespace:

using System.IO;
using System.Drawing.Printing;
using RasterEdge.Imaging;
using RasterEdge.Imaging.Processing;
using  RasterEdge.Imaging.Dicom;

Create Dataset

The following code shows how to create the Data Set object and insert the appropriate elements for the specified class

public void Initialize(DicomClassType classType, DicomDataSetInitializeType type);

Create Dataset

The following code shows how to load a Data Set from a disk fileï¼

public virtual void Load(string name, DicomDataSetLoadFlags flags);

Saves Data Set

The following code shows how to save the Data Set to the specified fileï¼

public void Save(string name, DicomDataSetSaveFlags flags);

Create DICOM Directories

The following code shows how to streamline the process of creating DICOM Directories for DICOM File-setsï¼

public class DicomDir : System.IDisposable ;

Load DICOM Directories

The following code shows how to load the DICOM Directory Data Set from the specified fileï¼

public void Load(string name, DicomDataSetLoadFlags flags);

Save DICOM Directories

The following code shows how to create the DICOMDIR File and stores the DICOM Directory information in it

Public void Save();