YAKAMI DICOM Tools (Free DICOM Viewer/Converter/etc.)

News

Caution! Non-Drop Drawing function of "DICOM Viewer", available at ver. 1.2.0.0 or later, requires Windows Aero to be enabled.
New! 28 Mar 2012 released ver. 1.3.4.0. Supported multi-level nesting of SQ elements with unlimited length and SQ items with unlimited or wrongly-designated length.
4 Feb 2012 released ver. 1.3.3.0. Bug fix of minimizing viewer windows to display DICOM data given as command line arguments on loading if automatic layout is enabled.
4 Feb 2012 released ver. 1.3.2.0. Improved response to resizing the main window of DICOM Viewer.
2 Feb 2012 released ver. 1.3.1.0. Bug fix on appearance. Supported changing custom bar color.
2 Feb 2012 released ver. 1.3.0.0. Changed user interface of DICOM Viewer

Reports on bugs and unsupported DICOM files are welcomed. Thank you for your cooperation.

Introduction
Requirement
Download
Install
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Features
Support
Disclaimer
Copyright
Articles on "YAKAMI DICOM Tools"
History

Introduction

"YAKAMI DICOM Tools" is freeware, a package of applications to handle DICOM files for research. These programs run on Windows 7/Vista®/XP/2000. This package includes the following applications and documents.

Applications

DICOM Viewer

Hi-Speed DICOM Viewer with Multi-Document Interface.

DICOM Converter

A DICOM-to-DICOM/Image file converter.

File Mover

A DICOM File placer.

Folder Renamer

Renamer of folders contaning DICOM files.

DICOM Counter

A DICOM file scanner and counter.

Shortcut Maker

An automatic shortcut file (.lnk) creator.

Index Maker

An automatic DICOM index file creator.

Table Maker

An automatic DICOM header table maker.

PACS Client

An interface program to search studies and to open them.

Conveyer

A relay program to call "DICOM Viewer", "DICOM Converter" or "PACS Client".

Documents

readme.txt	Non-DirectX® version
readme-dx.txt	DirectX® version
viewer_guide.txt	How to use "DICOM Viewer".
script.txt	How to write DICOM-to-DICOM conversion script.
Sample Scripts	do nothing / anonymize / encrypt (binary) / decrypt (binary) / encrypt (text) / decrypt (text)
filename.txt	How to specify output path (file names /folder names).
conv-cmd.txt	How to control "DICOM Converter" interactively by a DOS prompt.
pacs-cmd.txt	How to control "PACS Client" interactively by a DOS prompt.

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Requirement

OS: Windows 7/Vista®/XP/2000
hardware: supporting above OS
memory: 256MB minimum, 1GB recommended at least to prevent out-of-memory exception on DICOM Viewer.

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Download

You can download these packages from the following links.
DirectX® is required by some programs included in DirectX® versions of the following packages.

Latest versions

YAKAMI DICOM Tools ver. 1.3.4.0 ZIP-compression 2,187kB (x86 version)
(latest version, released on 28 Mar 2012, English version, for Windows 7/Vista®/XP/2000 (32bit))
Japanese version, 2,592kB

YAKAMI DICOM Tools ver. 1.3.4.0 ZIP-compression 2,289kB (x64 version)
(latest version, released on 28 Mar 2012, English version, for Windows 7/Vista®/XP/2000 (64bit))
Japanese version, 2,654kB

YAKAMI DICOM Tools ver. 1.3.4.0 ZIP-compression 2,516kB (DirectX, x86 version)
(latest version, released on 28 Mar 2012, English version, for Windows 7/Vista®/XP/2000 (32bit))
Japanese version, 2,832kB

Old versions

YAKAMI DICOM Tools ver. 1.2.6.0 ZIP-compression 2,192kB (x86 version)
(latest version, released on 12 Nov 2011, English version, for Windows 7/Vista®/XP/2000 (32bit))
Japanese version, 2,582kB

YAKAMI DICOM Tools ver. 1.2.6.0 ZIP-compression 2,270kB (x64 version)
(latest version, released on 12 Nov 2011, English version, for Windows 7/Vista®/XP/2000 (64bit))
Japanese version, 2,637kB

YAKAMI DICOM Tools ver. 1.2.6.0 ZIP-compression 2,520kB (DirectX, x86 version)
(latest version, released on 12 Nov 2011, English version, for Windows 7/Vista®/XP/2000 (32bit))
Japanese version, 2,843kB

YAKAMI DICOM Tools ver. 1.1.9.0 ZIP-compression 2,132kB (x86 version)
(latest version, released on 6 Jun 2011, English version, for Windows 7/Vista®/XP/2000 (32bit))
Japanese version, 2,515kB

YAKAMI DICOM Tools ver. 1.1.9.0 ZIP-compression 2,184kB (x64 version)
(latest version, released on 6 Jun 2011, English version, for Windows 7/Vista®/XP/2000 (64bit))
Japanese version, 2,568kB

YAKAMI DICOM Tools ver. 1.0.9.4 ZIP-compression 2,154kB (x86 DirectX® version)
(released on 5 January 2011, English version, for Windows 7/Vista®/XP/2000 (32bit))
Japanese version, 2,412kB

YAKAMI DICOM Tools ver. 1.0.3.0 ZIP-compression, 667kB (non-DirectX® version)
(released on 7 Jul 2008, Japanese version, for Windows 7/Vista®/XP/2000 (64bit/32bit))

YAKAMI DICOM Tools ver. 1.0.3.0 ZIP-compression, 998kB (DirectX® version)
(released on 7 Jul 2008, Japanese version, for Windows 7/Vista®/XP/2000 (32bit))

YAKAMI DICOM Tools ver. 1.0.0.1 ZIP-compression, 612kB (non-DirectX® version)
(Japanese version, for Windows 7/Vista®/XP/2000 (64bit/32bit))

YAKAMI DICOM Tools ver. 1.0.0.1 ZIP-compression, 909kB (DirectX® version)
(Japanese version, for Windows 7/Vista®/XP/2000 (32bit))

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Install

Download a package file, unzip it, and run "setup.exe" to install these applications.

Important
If previous version of this package is already installed, uninstall it before installing this package.
If you install a package of DirectX® version, please install and update DirectX® (27 Jul 2007 or later version required) with the installation program on the following page, before using YAKAMI DICOM Tools
DirectX®:
http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/AboutGFW/Pages/DirectX10-a.aspx

The installer and all applications require Microsoft .NET™ Framework. You can download one from the following link.
(Windows 7/Vista® comes packaged with Microsoft .NET™ Framework 2.0)
.NET™ Framework 2.0:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5

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Uninstall

Open Control panel and run "Add/Remove Programs" (Windows XP/2000) or "Programs and Features" (Windows 7/Vista®), select "DICOM Tools" from the list, and click "Uninstall".

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RUN

Click the menu of each application in [Start Menu]-[All programs]-{YAKAMI software].

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Features

DICOM Viewer

Hi-speed DICOM Viewer with Multi-Document-Interface (MDI).
* File type: little/big endian DICOM files with images in single/multiframe or nesting format, supporting JPEG, JPEG Lossless, JPEG LS, MPEG compressions. (MPEG data are converted to .mpeg files for playing with external programs.)
* Viewer: magnify (6.25-1600%), spin by 90 degree, mirror, parallel translation, change Window Level / Window Width, black-white inversion.
* Synchronized scroll: slice location, magnification and spin, position, Window Level / Window Width and black-white inversion.
* Measure: distance, signal average/standard deviation/maximum/minimum of circular ROI, overlay figures are saved and reloaded.
* Filter: Slab - Average/MIP/MinIP/Median/Sharpen, Plane/Cubic - Average/Dilate/Erode/Median/Sharpen.
* Image Fusion.
* Cross Reference.
* Loupe.
* Ruler.
* Reading Progress.
* DICOM-to-DICOM/image file conversion including anonymization
* etc.

DICOM Converter

DICOM-to-DICOM conversion software, running like a mirroring program.
This program can change format, headers, images, file names, and folder path of multiple DICOM files at once. Conversion script is supported to manipulate DICOM headers. This program can be used as an anonimizer.
This program converts DICOM files as fast as Windows Explorer simply copies files.

File Mover

A DICOM file placer.
This program place each DICOM file according to its headers.
This program is confirmed to handle DICOM-file storage folder of OsiriX™.

Folder Renamer

Renamer of folders containing DICOM files.
This program renames folders containing DICOM files according to their header. You can specify how to use headers freely.

DICOM Counter

A DICOM file scanner and counter.
This program scans all files in the specified folder to find and count DICOM files.

Shortcut Maker

An automatic shortcut file creater.
This program scans folders containing DICOM files and creates shortcut files (.lnk) to the folders.

Index Maker

An automatic DICOM index file creator.
This program scans all files in each folder and creates DICOM index file ("_DCM_IDX.txt") to shorten time to load the files by "DICOM Viewer".

Table Maker

An automatic DICOM header table maker. This program read headers of DICOM files and make them into a table.

PACS Client

An interface program to search studies and to open them. This program scams .dcmvf and .lnk files and show a list of studies.

Conveyer

A relay program to call "DICOM Viewer", "DICOM Converter" or "PACS Client".

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Support

Binary packages, documents, news about "YAKAMI DICOM Tools" are available on the following page.

YAKAMI DICOM Tools / YAKAMI DICOM Tools:
http://www.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~diag_rad/intro/tech/dicom_tools.html

I would appreciate if you send me bug reports, suggestion or DICOM files which cannot open with "DICOM Viewer". email: email

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Disclaimer

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. WE ASSUME NO LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR MISDIAGNOSIS) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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Copyright

Category: freeware
Author: Masahiro Yakami
email:
Organization: Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Graduate school of Medicine, Kyoto University
Reproduction: authors permission required

Windows 7/Vista® is either a registered trademark or trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
This document includes other registered trademarks and/or trademarks of other companies.

These programs use Microsoft .NET™ Framework 2.0 to handle GIF files.

These programs use the FreeImage open source image library. See http://freeimage.sourceforge.net for details.
FreeImage is used under the FIPL, version 3.12.0.

These programs use "IJG Win32 - JPEG co-decoding library with Lossless JPEG Extentions".
IJG: Independent JPEG Group, see http://www.ijg.org/
Lossless JPEG co-decoding extensions: developed by Ken Murchison

These programs use "CharLS" developed by Jan de Vaan. See http://charls.codeplex.com/.

These programs use AForge.NET Framework 2.1.5. See http://code.google.com/p/aforge/.
AForge.NET is used under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.

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Articles on "YAKAMI DICOM Tools"

Peer Reviewed Scientific Papers

Development and Evaluation of a Low-Cost and High-Capacity DICOM Image Data Storage System for Research.
Masahiro Yakami, Koichi Ishizu, Takeshi Kubo, Tomohisa Okada, Kaori Togashi.
Journal of Digital Imaging. 2010 Feb 24. [Epub ahead of print]
[SpringerLink] [PubMed]

Presentations

Masahiro Yakami, Koichi Ishizu, Takeshi Kubo, Tomohisa Okada, Yutaka Emoto, Kaori Togashi
Utility of YAKAMI DICOM Tools for reasearches on medical imaging in DICOM format
JAMIT Annual Meeting 2010.
Kanagawa, Japan, 30 Jul 2010.
Masahiro Yakami, MD Takeshi Kubo, MD, PhD, Koichi Ishizu, MD, PhD, Koji Fujimoto, MD, Yoshio Iizuka, Masami Kawagishi, Kaori Togashi, MD, PhD.
Computer inference of diagnosis from features scored by radiologists: Evaluation of 51 features of 222 pulmonary nodules in 100 consecutive CT examinations.
RSNA 2009 Annual meeting.
Chicago, U.S.A., 2 Dec 2009.
Masahiro Yakami, Koichi Ishizu, Takeshi Kubo, Tomohisa Okada, Kaori Togashi. Development of an Integrated DICOM Conversion Tool for Anonymized Medical Image Transport for Radiological Research.
RSNA 2008 Annual meeting.
Chicago, U.S.A., 3 Dec 2008.
Masahiro Yakami, Koichi Ishizu, Takeshi Kubo, Tomohisa Okada, Kaori Togashi. Development and Evaluation of an Affordable and Massive DICOM Data Storage System for Research.
RSNA 2008 Annual meeting.
Chicago, U.S.A., 2 Dec 2008.

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History

28 Mar 2012 ver. 1.3.4.0

"Common"

Checked window location, and moved if out of the screen area.
Supported multi-level nesting of SQ elements with unlimited length and SQ items with unlimited or wrongly-designated length.

"Conveyer", "PACS Client"

Eliminated conveying unnessesary commands such as "/Maximize" when the window of "DICOM Viewer" is not shown.

"DICOM Converter"

Corrected a sample script, "anonymize.txt": empty -> emptify

6 Feb 2012 ver. 1.3.3.0

"Conveyer", "PACS Client"

Bug fix on elimination of conveying unnesesary commands.

"Common"

Bug fix on searching DICOM data with slice location.

"DICOM Viewer"

Bug fix of minimizing viewer windows to display DICOM data given as command line arguments on loading if automatic layout is enabled.

4 Feb 2012 ver. 1.3.2.0

"Conveyer", "PACS Client"

Eliminated conveying unnessesary command such as "/Exit" when the target program is not running.

"DICOM Viewer"

Improved response to resizing the main window.

2 Feb 2012 ver. 1.3.1.0

"DICOM Viewer"

Supported changing custom bar color.
Bug fix on the appearance.

2 Feb 2012 ver. 1.3.0.0

"Common"

Bug fix on mistaking image file formats on converting multiple DICOM files at once.

"DICOM Viewer"

Support preview functions for WL/WW and gamma.
Support new interfaces.
Show a splash window on loading.

11 Jan 2012 ver. 1.2.9.0

"Common"

Bug fix on displaying compressed image data whose width in pixel is not multiple of 4.

21 Dec 2011 ver. 1.2.8.0

"DICOM Viewer"

Bug fix on fixing mouse cursor position.

5 Dec 2011 ver. 1.2.7.0

"DICOM Viewer"

Supported exporting trimmed images as shown in the window, instead of original images, as image files.

12 Nov 2011 ver. 1.2.6.0

"DICOM Viewer"

Bug fix on unisotropic images.
Bug fix on multi-level nesting of SQ elements with unlimited length.

27 Sep 2011 ver. 1.2.5.0

"Common"

Arranged start menu icons into three folders.
Moved "_DCM_IDX.txt" and "overlay.txt" from folders containing DICOM files to "_DCM_INF" folders in their parent folders.
Supported DICOM files with umcompressed color-by-plane images.
(DICOM header of Planer Configulation (0028,0006) = 1)
Bug fix of out-of-memory exception on scanning all files in a folder to find DICOM files.

"PACS Client"

Added "Open with Explorer" button.

13 Sep 2011 ver. 1.2.4.0

"Common"

Bug fix on loading images from DICOM files in "Preamble Suppressed".

12 Sep 2011 ver. 1.2.3.0

"DICOM Converter"

Bug fix on convertion with "Delete all person names" checkbox or "EMPTIFY" script command.

"DICOM Viewer"

Supported separate interpolation during drag.
Bug fix "Image Type" drop-down listbox on the conversion dialog.

1 Sep 2011 ver. 1.2.2.0

"DICOM Converter/Viewer"

Bug fix on converting single-frame DICOM files.

27 Aug 2011 ver. 1.2.1.0

"DICOM Viewer"

Bug fix on calculating pixel value.
Bug fix on saving drawing/measurement information.

24 Aug 2011 ver. 1.2.0.0

"DICOM Converter and DICOM Viewer"

Supported non-dropping paging regardless of the refresh rate of the display on Windows Vista/7.
Supported converting DICOM files with their images spun and mirrored.
Supported converting DICOM files into JPEG-LS and JPEG2000 format (experimental).
Bug fix on loading DICOM files with color images compressed in JPEG 2000 algorithm.
Bug fix on handling images whose width is not multiple of 4.

"DICOM Converter"

Bug fix on converting endian or explicit/implicit of elements whose VR is SQ.

"DICOM Viewer"

Supported exporting *trimmed* images as shown in the window, instead of original images, as a movie file(.avi).
Supported new color maps including "PET", "Hot Metal Blue", "PET 20 steps" and those inverse.
Improved processing speed of filters.
Supported omitting subfolders which have specified names or attributes on loading DICOM files.
Changed the location of the files storing overlay and index information.
* Bug fix on disturbance of Windows shutdown during resident of this program.

6 Jun 2011 ver. 1.1.9.0

"DICOM Viewer"

Supported changing interpolation mode.

4 Jun 2011 ver. 1.1.8.0

"DICOM Viewer"

Supported shorten path shown on title bars of child windows.
Bug fix on called while the main window is minimized.
Bug fix on called without argument during resident.

1 Jun 2011 ver. 1.1.7.0

"DICOM Viewer"

Enabled changing settings on mini-windows.
Added popup to show information on a image shown in a mini-window.
Supported resident mode.
Improved response by subdividing idling processes.
Bug fix on cross reference settings.

24 May 2011 ver. 1.1.6.0

"Common"

Bug fix of infinite loop at memory management to handle DICOM and image data.

23 May 2011 ver. 1.1.5.0

"Common"

Corrected "filename.txt" and "filename.ja.txt".

"DICOM Viewer"

Added "Hot Iron" to the color pallete.
Bug fix on playing .dcmvc/.dcmva/.dcmvl/.log files.
Bug fix on capturing or recording DICOM files with multiframe/encapsled image.
Bug fix on calculating pixel values in a ROI.

18 May 2011 ver. 1.1.4.0

"DICOM Viewer"

Supported "Image Fusion".
Supported "Always on the Top".
Supported selecting what kind of overlay to be shown during drag.
Improved WL/WW and magnification setting on changing columns.
Bug fix on the order of slices opened with a capture file (.dcmvc/.dcmva).

"PACS Client"

Bug fix on opening a study from the study list containing multiple studies.

09 May 2011 ver. 1.1.3.0

"DICOM Viewer"

Supporting JPEG Lossless compression by adopting an external library, "IJG Win32 - JPEG co-decoding library with Lossless JPEG Extentions", which includes the lossless JPEG co-decoding extensions developed by Ken Murchison.
http://eng.neologica.it/download/downloadIJGWin32.html (dead link)
http://www.oceana.com/ftp/ljpeg/ (dead link)
Supporting JPEG-LS compression by adopting an external library, "CharLS" (Copyright (c) 2007-2010, Jan de Vaan).
http://charls.codeplex.com/
Supporting MPEG compression by exporting MPEG data as .mpeg files for playing with external programs such as "Windows Media Player".
Bug fix on memory cacheing.
Bug fix on exporting DICOM files.

24 April 2011 ver. 1.1.2.0

"DICOM Viewer"

Supported exporting images as a movie file(.avi).
Supported changing the width of the area to indicate overlay information.
Bug fix on automatic cine mode.

20 April 2011 ver. 1.1.1.0

"Common"

Obviated registory.
Supported automatic transfer of settings at previous version.
Changed overlay.txt and _DCM_IDX.txt to invisible.

"DICOM Viewer"

Improved paging speed.
Supported automatic cine mode controlled by a numpad.
Changed the position of menu on viewer window to the top level.
Supported changing settings of information overlay, drawings, ruler and reading progress on a window with a key.
Supported changing font and color of drawings and their captions.
Dispelled a sense of incongruity on changing magnification due to accidental errors in calculation.
Supported fixing magnification center to the center of a window.
Supported changing icon position to the bottom of a parent window.
Supported multiple settings of overlay information for a modality.
Supported importing/exporting settings.
Bug fix on overlaying a private tag.
Bug fix on layouting if started by file extension associations.
Bug fix on multi-frame data containing one slice.

15 March 2011 ver. 1.1.0.0

"Common"

Changed installer to prohibit installing pleural versions of this package such as 32bit, 64bit, English and Japanese version.

"DICOM Viewer"

Supporting automatic layout mode.
Supporting importing settings of previous version.
Supporting specifying modality for RAW files.
Bug fix on inverting back and front of spacial cross reference.
Bug fix on memory leak by manually stopping and disposing a timer object created manually.
Bug fix on exporting DICOM files.
Bug fix on calculating the mean and SD of a ROI.
Bug fix of dissapearing mouse cursor.

"DICOM Converter"

Supporting importing settings of previous version.

"PACS Client"

Shorten time to show a study list by adopting multi-threading for scanning DICOM files.

"Conveyer"

Added "Conveyer" to this package.

23 Feb 2001 ver. 1.0.9.8

"Common"

Bug fix on loading "DICOMDIR" file.

"DICOM Viewer"

Added commands "/Capture" and "/CaptureAll".
Bug fix on playing capture files.

21 Feb 2011 ver. 1.0.9.7

"DICOM Viewer"

Bug fix on black out during loading DICOM files.
Bug fix on initial window position and size, that arized in some environment.

21 Feb 2011 ver. 1.0.9.6

"DICOM Viewer"

Supported automatic memory usage control.
Added memory usage to the title bar.
Supported drag&drop of RAW files.
Supported scanning ".mhd" files for RAW files.
Supported cross reference on RAW files.
Added indication of slice continuity.
Added an menu item, [Capture/Log]-[Open Capture Folder].
Added indicators of mouse drag setting in the status bar.
Bug fix on memory allocation.
Bug fix on reading "_DCM_IDX.txt" to reduced loading time of DICOM files
Bug fix on cross reference.

09 Feb 2011 ver. 1.0.9.5

"Common"

Added "ACCN" to the path commands.

"DICOM Viewer"

Supported capturing all windows (.dcmva).
Supported capturing DICOM header as a text file.
Added non-skip paging mode (F9).
Changed default setting of left-drag to be non-skip paging (F9),that of Shift-left-drag to be propotional paging (F3), and that of left&right-drag to be position shift (F2).
Changed cross reference to indicate intersection lines, whether projected lines are above, on or below the plane shown in inactive windows, and which corner is the top-left of the FOV rectangle of the image shown in the active window.
Changed to hide all overlay texts and shapes during paging with mouse drag in order to help users to concentrate their attention to the image.
Changed to show scroll position.
Added many command line switches and commands.
Bug fix on deleting overlay shapes with mouse drag/click (F10).

"DICOM Converter"

Added a checkbox, "Confirm before overwrite" in "Output Path" tab page.

"PACS Client"

Added "PACS Client" to this package.

05 Jan 2011 ver. 1.0.9.4

"DICOM Viewer"

Bug fix on the order of slices containing image numbers larger than 65536.
Bug fix on the order of slices without slice location in the DICOM headers.

"File Mover"

Bug fix on copying files.

07 Dec 2010 ver. 1.0.9.3

"DirectX® version"

"Table Maker" was added to this package. It was not added to the package released on 29 Nov 2010.

29 Nov 2010 ver. 1.0.9.3

"Common"

Changed DICOM header window to show each header in proper format according to their contents.
Shortened time to analize DICOM file structure.

"Table Maker"

Added "Table Maker" to this package.

"Index Maker"

Added language selector.
Changed to remember window position of previous instance.

29 Oct 2010 ver. 1.0.9.2

"DICOM Viewer"

Shortened time to convey command line arguments from a second instance of "DICOM Viewer" to the first one on an instance of an operating system using IPC communication.
Changed menu alignment from fixed to auto wrapping.

16 Sep 2010 ver. 1.0.9.1

"DICOM Converter"

Bug fix on converting a DICOM file to an image file when the DICOM file does not have the element (0002,0012) or (0002,0013).

6 Sep 2010 ver. 1.0.9.0

"Common" ("DICOM Viewer")

!!Important!! Bug fix on controlling memory allocation for each slice of image.

"Index Maker"

Added "Index Maker" to this package.

30 Aug 2010 ver. 1.0.8.9

"DICOM Viewer"

Supported various kinds of RAW formats (8/16/32/64 bit, signed/unsigned, little/big endian).
Supported playing capture files (.dcmvc) and log files (.dcmvl) without moving nor resizing viewer windows.
Reduced loading time of DICOM files in a folder to less than one tenth by using an index file saved as "_DCM_IDX.txt" in the same folder. The index file is updated every time DICOM files in the folder are loaded by "DICOM Viewer".
Reduced memory consumption to half on loading DICOM files with 16bit image data by optimizing memory allocation algorithm.
Reduced memory consumption on loading pleural series of DICOM files in a folder by optimizing memory cacheing algorithm.

"DICOM Converter"

Corrected tail padding charactor to make each element length to be an even number ("0x00" to "0x20" when VR is not "UI" nor "OB") .
Corrected misspelling ("inplicit" to "implicit").
Bug fix on enabling and disabling "Save" and "Save and Exit" button on "conversion option" window.

12 Jul 2010 ver. 1.0.8.8

"Common"

Supported 8 to 64bit image data.
Supported multi-frame image data.
Supported adaptive memory allocation according to image depth.
Bug fix on decoding image data (on image representation and depth).

"DICOM Viewer"

Changed left/right key to change column even if no image exist on the same location in the next colmn. Reaction to left/right mouse drag was not changed.
Bug fix on separating columns.

16 Mar 2010 ver. 1.0.8.7

"Common"

Changed "escape sequence" to show non ASCII letters in DICOM headers from "\" to "%" to avoid creating additional level of folders, when strings are used for a part of a file/folder path or for DICOM header. "escape sequence" in "header window" of "DICOM Viewer" and "DICOM Converter" remains to be "\".

"DICOM Viewer"

Supported changing drag setting of mouse buttons and modifier keys with a dialog.
Enabled deleting drawn objects with mouse drag as well as mouse click.
Bug fix on loading DICOM files of multiple sequences and/or studies in one directory.

"File Mover"

Adopted "tab control".
Supported multiple target folders.
Supported two processes for each DICOM file.
Supported auto retry on runtime errors.
Supported resuming interrupted processes on restarting.

29 Aug 2009 ver. 1.0.8.6

"DICOM Viewer"

Decrease memory demand per slice by half.
Changed to release memory explicitly on closing child windows.

24 Aug 2009 ver. 1.0.8.5

"Common"

Supported JPEG/JPEG2000 compressed DICOM files.
To support these formats, FreeImage open source image library is used under the FIPL, version 3.12.0.

15 Aug 2009 ver. 1.0.8.4

"Common"

Added "FILENAME" and "FILEEXT" to the path commands.

"DICOM Viewer"

Added DICOM-to-DICOM conversion including anonymization.
Added function to specify convolution size in pixel.
Added icons to the menu items.

20 Jun 2009 ver. 1.0.8.3

"DICOM Viewer"

Added shape filter.
Bug fix on adjusting image magnification to a captured file (.dcmvc).

29 Jun 2009 ver. 1.0.8.2

"DICOM Viewer"

Added history function of opened file/folder.
Added overlay ruler.
Added "reading progress" in the overlay text and title bar.
Added DICOM data cache on memory.
Bug fix on sorting DICOM files.

16 Jun 2009 ver. 1.0.8.1

"DICOM Viewer"

Added loading progress in the overlay text.
Bug fix on transferring 256byte or longer file/folder full-paths from one instance to another.

14 Jun 2009 ver. 1.0.8.0

Enabled reading shortcut files (.lnk) instead of original files.

"DICOM Viewer"

Totally automated slice/position/scale linkage between child windows.
Added "Point Link" function, which is available with F12 key.
Added function to change styles of overlay lines.
Bug fix on loading DICOM files with pixel spacing tags (0028,0030) ending with "\".
Bug fix on loading DICOM files of multiple studies in one folder.

17 Apr 2009 ver. 1.0.7.6

"DICOM Viewer"

Added CheckBox to toggle linking during mouse drag.
Bug fix on TextBox, "<" / ">" button on Link Control Window since ver. 1.0.6.0.

16 Apr 2009 ver. 1.0.7.5

"DICOM Viewer"

Enabled any DICOM tag to be overlaid.
Enabled to hide folder path on title bar. (useful for blind read)
Enabled to change the speed of paging by mouse drag.
Changed mouse cursor to indicate what is changed by drag.
Changed position of mouse cursor to be fixed during changing slice, WL/WW or magnification.
Added menu of left drag mode and cross reference to the context menu on viewer windows.
Changed display of distance and diameter from integer into decimal.
Enabled skip paging by fast mouse drag.
Added warning of skip paging to overlaid message on viewer windows.
Bug fix on changing WL/WW with left drag.
Bug fix on window width (must be 2 or bigger).
Bug fix on delaying operation for user operation

"DICOM Converter"

Bug fix on checking if conversion script file specified or not.

2 Apr 2009 ver. 1.0.7.4

"DICOM Viewer"

Bug fix on cross reference.

31 Mar 2009 ver. 1.0.7.3

"DICOM Converter", "File Mover", "Folder Renamer", "Shortcut Maker"

Bug fix on the link to the manual file of output path command.

26 Mar 2009 ver. 1.0.7.2

"DICOM Viewer"

Bug fix on hiding mouse cursor.

25 Mar 2009 ver. 1.0.7.1

"DICOM Viewer"

Hid or change mouse cursor during mouse drag.
Added "Study Date" to the overlay information.
Bug fix on "overlay.txt".
Bug fix on initial setting of overlay information.

24 Mar 2009 ver. 1.0.7.0

"Common"

Added "Shortcut Maker" to this package.
Added "STYEAR", "STMONTH" and "STMDAY" to the path commands.
Improved performance of drawing monochrome pictures.
Bug fix on drawing pictures the width (pixel) of which is not a multiple of four.
Bug fix on saving settings of TextBox controls.

"DICOM Viewer"

Added loupe function.
Improved performance of drawing large pictures in low magnification (50% or less).
Changed initial image size to fit the window width of a view window.
Changed study/series columns to be created only when a folder contains multiple studies/series.
Changed display of current column number from 0(0-2) to 1/3 for example.
Abolished rewinding of horizontal scroll.
Slowed horizontal scroll speed.
Bug fix on drawing pictures whose horizontal scale and whose vertical scale is different.
Bug fix on drawing overlay lines on spun or mirrored pictures.

"File Mover"

Changed to be closed on completing the requested task if called by the file type association (.dcmms).

12 Mar 2009 ver. 1.0.6.2

"DICOM Viewer"

Bug fix on skip scroll.

12 Mar 2009 ver. 1.0.6.1

"DICOM Viewer"

Bug fix on slice link.

9 Mar 2009 ver. 1.0.6.0

"DICOM Viewer"

Supported cross reference.
Improved memory handling.
Supported logging and playing filter setting.
Bug fix on conversion setting files (*.dcmcc/*dcmco).
Bug fix on automatic sort of DICOM files.

"DICOM Converter"

Added functions to modify "Study ID", "Series Number", "Acquisition Number", and "Instance Number": overwritting with a certain number, adding or subtracting a certain number.
Added functions to modify "Study Instance UID", "Series Instance UID" and "SOP Instance UID": overwriting with a certain UID, adding some trailing string, i.e. ".1", generating a new UID and overwriting with it.
Added a command, "trim_end_rt_overwrite" to conversion script files (*.dcmcs).
Changed handling of trailing "null" charactors of each element to delete them.
Bug fix on file conversion.

28 Nov 2008 ver. 1.0.5.2

"DICOM Viewer"

Added image filters; Plane/Cubic Average/Dilate/Erode/Median

27 Nov 2008 ver. 1.0.5.1

"DICOM Converter"

Supported input setting files (*.dcmci) to load and save the list of target files.
Supported conversion setting files (*.dcmcc) to load and save the conversion settings.
Added the following commands to conversion script files (*.dcmcs).
"\YEAR", "\MONTH", "\MDAY", "\HOUR", "\MIN", "\SEC", "\MSEC", "\RND", "\RNX"
Associated these kinds of files (*.dcmci, *.dcmcc, *.dcmcs) with "DICOM Converter" by the installer.
Supported interactive control by a DOS prompt.
Supported batch conversion of DICOM files to image files as well as DICOM files.

"File Mover"

Supported setting files (*.dcmm) to load and save the settings.
Associated this kind of files (*.dcmm) with "File Mover" by the installer.

"DICOM Viewer"

Supported variable gamma curve from 0.2 to 5.

11 Nov 2008 ver. 1.0.5.0

"DICOM Counter":

Added "DICOM Counter" to this package.

"DICOM Converter":

Adopted "tab control" to add the items of "Study Date", "Study Time", "Series Date", "Series Time", "Acquisition Date", "Acquisition Time", "Study ID", "Study UID", "Series Number", "Acquisition Number", "Instance Number", "Instance UID", "Instance UID for Storage", "Series Description", "Sequence Name" and "Protocol Name" on the dialog box to set conversion options.

"DICOM Viewer":

Supported automatic sort of DICOM files in a folder by scan times for viewing dynamic/perfusion study. You can scroll images of the same location and of different slice times with mouse drag to left and right.

"DICOM Converter"

Bug fix of conversion with the option dialog.
internationalized the setting dialog.

22 Sep 2008 ver. 1.0.4.1

Added English version of the installer.
Bug fix of the installer (referrence of viewer_guide.txt from DICOM Viewer)
Changed URLs of DirectX® and .NET™ framework in the readme.txt from Japanese version to English version.

18 Sep 2008 ver. 1.0.4.0

Only non-DirectX® version is released.
Internationalized all applications, libraries and documents in this package. English and Japanese are going to be supported for the time being. The default language is English.

all previous versions of this package support Japanese only.

12 Oct 2007 ver.0.0.0.1

First version of this package, containing DICOM Converter (since Oct 2006), Folder Renamer (since Jul 2007), and DICOM Viewer (since Oct 2007).

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