GDCM decoder/transcoder plugin for Orthanc
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General Information
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This repository contains the source code of a plugin for Orthanc, the
lightweight, RESTful DICOM server, that allows to decode and transcode
DICOM images using GDCM.

This plugin, without the transcoding primitives, was part of the
samples of Orthanc < 1.7.0.


Dependencies
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This plugin is based upon the GDCM project, an open-source
implementation of the DICOM standard with advanced features for image
decoding, by Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gdcm/


Installation and usage
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Build and usage instructions are available in the Orthanc Book:
https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/book/plugins/gdcm.html


Contributing
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Instructions for contributing to the Orthanc project are included in
the Orthanc Book:
https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/book/developers/repositories.html


Licensing
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The GDCM plugin for Orthanc is licensed under the GPLv3 license.

We also kindly ask scientific works and clinical studies that make
use of Orthanc to cite Orthanc in their associated publications.
Similarly, we ask open-source and closed-source products that make
use of Orthanc to warn us about this use. You can cite our work
using the following BibTeX entry:

@Article{Jodogne2018,
  author="Jodogne, S{\'e}bastien",
  title="The {O}rthanc Ecosystem for Medical Imaging",
  journal="Journal of Digital Imaging",
  year="2018",
  month="Jun",
  day="01",
  volume="31",
  number="3",
  pages="341--352",
  issn="1618-727X",
  doi="10.1007/s10278-018-0082-y",
  url="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-018-0082-y"
}
