DICOM Reading in VB.NET

Here is a detailed VB.NET sample for decoding DICOM images and metadata with RasterEdge .NET Imaging SDK and DICOM Add-on. (For C#.NET developers, please go to DICOM Reading for C#.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.)

Start Visual Studio .NET (2005 or later version);
Begin a new project with programming language - VB.NET;
Add RasterEdge.DotNetImaging.dll & RasterEdge.DotNetImaging.Dicom.dll to your Visual C# applications;
Add the appropriate Imports directive:

Imports System.IO
Imports RasterEdge.Imaging
Imports RasterEdge.Imaging.Processing
Imports RasterEdge.Imaging.Dicom

RasterEdge provide detailed VB.NET codes to create DICOM Dataset:

Overloads Public Sub Initialize(ByVal classType As DicomClassType, ByVal type As DicomDataSetInitializeType)

Loads a Data Set from a disk file with the following VB.NET codes:

Overloads Public Overridable Sub Load(ByVal name As String, ByVal flags As DicomDataSetLoadFlags)

You may save the Data Set to the specified file with the following VB.NET codes:

Overloads Public Sub Save(ByVal name As String, ByVal flags As DicomDataSetSaveFlags)

Using VB.NET codes to create DICOM Directories for DICOM File-sets if you need one:


Public Class DicomDir 
      Implements System.IDisposable

Loads the DICOM Directory Data Set from the specified file with the following VB.NET codes:

Public Sub Load(ByVal name As String, ByVal flags As DicomDataSetLoadFlags)

You may copy the following VB.NET codes to stores the DICOM Directory:

Public Sub Save()