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dicom.el - DICOM viewer - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
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DICOM stands for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine.  DICOM
files are typically used for medical imaging with different modalities
like US, CR, CT, MRI or PET.  This package adds the ability to view such
files in Emacs.  The images and metadata are displayed in regular Emacs
buffers.  The package registers itself in ‘auto-mode-alist’ and
‘magic-mode-alist’ for DICOMDIR directory files and DICOM images (file
extension *.dcm or *.ima).  Furthermore the command ‘dicom-open’ opens
DICOMDIR directory files or DICOM image files interactively.

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* Installation::
* Supported files::
* Contributions::


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1 Installation
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Dicom.el is available from GNU ELPA
(https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/dicom.html).  You can install it directly
via ‘M-x package-install RET dicom RET’.  After installation, you can
open ‘DICOMDIR’ and DICOM image files.

   Emacs must be compiled with support for PNG, SVG and XML.  The
package relies on external programs from the DCMTK
(https://dcmtk.org/en/dcmtk/) DICOM toolkit, which are all widely
available on GNU/Linux distributions.

   • ‘dcm2xml’ and ‘dcmj2pnm’ from the DCMTK
     (https://dcmtk.org/en/dcmtk/) DICOM toolkit
   • ‘ffmpeg’ for video conversion (optional)
   • ‘mpv’ for video playing (optional)


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2 Supported files
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The DICOM format is quite diverse.  The ‘dcm2xml’ tool can read the
metadata of most uncorrupted DICOM files.  It can still happen that the
DICOM viewer is unable to display files nicely, if the metadata records
are not interpreted properly.  In such cases, any help improving the
package is welcome.


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3 Contributions
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Since this package is part of GNU ELPA
(https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/dicom.html) contributions require a
copyright assignment to the FSF.



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