DicomObjects.Core consists of an inter-related, but independent, set of .Core compatible "Objects" that enable developers to quickly and easily add DICOM functionality to their products without needing to understand or program the intricacies of the DICOM standard. This help file provides full reference to those objects and also some introductory guidance.

Almost any aspect of DICOM image/data manipulation can be performed using DicomObjects, including:    

• Image read/write and parsing
• Network transmission of images and associated data, including worklists
• Printing to DICOM and windows printers
• Normalised operations including storage commitment
• Image creation from scratch and import/export to/from non-DICOM formats
• DICOM Web client and server

The main Components of DicomObjects are:

DicomWeb Namespace

All classes for RESTful DICOM Web Client and Server implmentations.

DicomServer Class

An object that provides storage, query/retrieve and normalised facilities as a service class provider (SCP). Events are raised in response to incoming operations.

DicomQuery Class

An object that handles the query/retrieve parts of the DICOM standard as a service class user (SCU).

DicomDataSet Class

Used for reading, writting, parsing, imporint and exportring DICOM objects

DicomPrint Class

Used for sending DICOM print requests to DICOM Printer SCP

DicomGlobal Class

Used for certain global operations, including logging and setting global behaviour.

DicomAssociation Class

A DicomAssociation Object represents a DICOM association, and may either be created automatically in response to an incoming query request, or explicitly by the client program. Methods of this object are used to send data, images, and verification requests.

DicomException Class

A DicomException Object represents the errors that occur within DicomObjects which is wrapped and thrown as a manageable exception in the user code with descriptive error messages.

 

Other classes and collections are created and used by the above, and some may also be created directly. They are:

Object Description	Single Item	Collection
Generic SOP instance, used for results of DICOM queries or as a sub-element of a Sequence	DicomDataSet Class	DicomDataSetCollection Class
Attribute (Data Element) of a DicomDataSet	DicomAttribute Class
DICOM Presentation context	DicomContext Class	DicomContextCollection Class
Licencing Information and Control	DicomLicence Class