malnakli / evil-dicom

A C# DICOM Library

Portable Evil DICOM - A DICOM library in C#

Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Rex Cardan, Portable Class Library adaptation (c) 2012-2014 Anders Gustafsson, Cureos AB

This project is a Portable Class Library adapted fork of Rex Cardan's original Evil DICOM library. For general information and tutorials, see here.

Applicability

The EvilDicom.Core Visual Studio solution contains a Portable Class Library project, a .NET 4.5 project for the class that cannot be represented in PCL, and a unit test project. The PCL library EvilDICOM.Core supports the following targets:

• .NET Framework version 4.5 and higher
• Windows 8 and higher (f.k.a. Metro)
• Silverlight version 5 and higher
• Windows Phone (Silverlight) version 8 and higher
• Xamarin.Android
• Xamarin.iOS

Public API Differences

To meet the requirements of a Portable Class Library project, the PCL library public API differs from Rex Cardan's original .NET 4 library as follows:

• DICOMBinaryReader and DICOMBinaryWriter constructors, DICOMFileReader.Read, DICOMFileReader.ReadFileMetadata and DICOMFileWriter.WriteLittleEndian methods takes a Stream argument instead of file path string.
• DICOMNetworkBinaryReader is excluded in the PCL library due to its dependency to the Socket class. This class is instead incorporated in the .NET 4.5 class library EvilDICOM.Desktop.

PCL example usage

Read a DICOM file with the name path:

var dcm = DICOMFileReader.Read(File.OpenRead(path));			// .NET and Silverlight elevated trust applications

Write DICOM object dcm to a file with the name path:

DICOMFileWriter.WriteLittleEndian(File.OpenWrite(path), dcm);	// .NET and Silverlight elevated trust applications