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DICOM viewer for Linux
Jeff Rasmussen
2005-04-28 12:43:04 UTC
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Has anyone found a decent DICOM viewer for Linux. I'm trying to
compile DICOMscope and amide. Both seem to have something broken.
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Andreas Tille
2005-04-28 12:52:32 UTC
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Has anyone found a decent DICOM viewer for Linux.s
If I'm searching for something in Debian I just try

~$ apt-cache search dicom
ctn - Runtime files for Central Test Node, a DICOM implementation
ctn-dev - Development files for Central Test Node, a DICOM implementation
ctn-doc - Documentation for Central Test Node, a DICOM implementation
dcmtk - The OFFIS DICOM toolkit command line utilities
dcmtk-doc - The OFFIS DICOM toolkit documentation
dcmtk-www - The OFFIS DICOM toolkit worklist www server application
libdcmtk0 - The OFFIS DICOM toolkit runtime libraries
libdcmtk0-dev - The OFFIS DICOM toolkit development libraries and headers
libmdc2 - Medical Image (DICOM, ECAT, ...) conversion tool
libmdc2-dev - Medical Image (DICOM, ECAT, ...) conversion tool
medcon - Medical Image (DICOM, ECAT, ...) conversion tool
xmedcon - Medical Image (DICOM, ECAT, ...) conversion tool

The package dcmtk is quite new in Debian and thus not yet included in
med-imaging packages. My plan was not to change debian-med packages
until Sarge release any more - but it might happen that I change this
plan because of the slow progress.

I guess other people on this list might be able to give better comments
on which one is probably your best friend.
I'm trying to
compile DICOMscope and amide. Both seem to have something broken.
These are listed at

http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/imaging

as kind of "we might package these programs in the future". Your experiences
(what is exactly broken etc.) might help to decide whether they are worth
packaging. If they have some concrete flaws we should mention these on
this page.

Kind regards

Andreas.
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Jeff Rasmussen
2005-04-28 15:47:36 UTC
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My intention was to look into the possibility of packaging either of
the two packages for Debian. If I understand correctly I need to
first compile the software on my system.

I have installed all of the packages you mentioned but most seemed
like library type packages with out much front end.
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Andreas Tille
2005-04-28 19:33:04 UTC
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Post by Jeff Rasmussen
My intention was to look into the possibility of packaging either of
the two packages for Debian. If I understand correctly I need to
first compile the software on my system.
In principle yes - but you definitely should have a look into the
developers reference and you should the tools needed. It is
absolutely simple to build Debian packages if you know which tools
to use so please do not try a "hand-made" solution. If you decided
for a certain package and do not know what to do next just ask here.
Normally packaging starts with dh_make ...
Post by Jeff Rasmussen
I have installed all of the packages you mentioned but most seemed
like library type packages with out much front end.
Sure - the packages starting with "lib" are libraries - it was just
a quick hint how to very quickly get an information about potential
interesting packages. Just forget about the libraries and lock at
the remaining ones. I hope you noticed that you can get more detailed
information about a package using

apt-cache show <packagename>

You might also like to try synaptic or an other package management tool
of your choice (there are ones for Gnome and KDE) but the "one liners"
I wrote are easily to post in e-mails ... and simply the way I go
personally.

Kind regards

Andreas.
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Juergen Salk
2005-04-28 13:13:08 UTC
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Post by Jeff Rasmussen
Has anyone found a decent DICOM viewer for Linux. I'm trying to
compile DICOMscope and amide. Both seem to have something broken.
I'd try xmedcon. You could also use dcm2pnm (from dcmtk
package) and pipe its output into an arbitrary image viewer
that can read from stdin.

You may also have a look at

http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/dicom.html

There are a number of references to free DICOM viewers, both
free as in beer as well as free as in speech. ;-)

Best regards - Juergen
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Kevin Rosenberg
2005-04-28 19:41:06 UTC
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Post by Jeff Rasmussen
Has anyone found a decent DICOM viewer for Linux. I'm trying to
compile DICOMscope and amide. Both seem to have something broken.
You can use my CTSim package in Debian (upstream http://ctsim.org)
which has a DICOM importer. You then view the image with the program
and can export the image into various formats.
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Zeki Çatav
2005-04-29 07:58:11 UTC
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Post by Jeff Rasmussen
Has anyone found a decent DICOM viewer for Linux. I'm trying to
compile DICOMscope and amide. Both seem to have something broken.
http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/dicom.html#links
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Andreas Tille
2005-04-29 10:47:21 UTC
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Post by Zeki Çatav
Post by Jeff Rasmussen
Has anyone found a decent DICOM viewer for Linux. I'm trying to
compile DICOMscope and amide. Both seem to have something broken.
http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/dicom.html#links
Perhaps a "grep -v 'Windows'" should be done and than we might compare
the result with our TODO list.

Thanks for the hint

Andreas.
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