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* DICOM viewer: (dicom). Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine.
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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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1 Installation
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Dicom.el is available from ELPA
(https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/dicom.html) or MELPA
(https://melpa.org/#/dicom) and can be installed 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 is widely available
on Linux distributions.

   • ‘dcm2xml’ and ‘dcm2img’ from the DCMTK
     (https://dcmtk.org/en/dcmtk/) DICOM toolkit
   • ‘magick’ from ImageMagick (https://imagemagick.org/)
   • ‘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, if the metadata records are not
interpreted properly.  Furthermore the DICOM format supports a variety
of underlying image formats and compressions, which might not be
supported by ImageMagick.  In such cases, any help improving the package
is welcome.


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