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Imebra is a multiplatform open source C++ Dicom library from Puntoexe.

The full source code, examples and documentation are freely available under the Affero GPL 3 license. A commercial license that allows to include IMEBRA and the examples in commercial application is available.
Note: Both the AGPL3 license and the Commercial license are available in the documentation distributed with the library. The AGPL3 source code is identical to the source code available under the conditions of the Commercial licens.

The library can handle Dicom3, NEMA and Jpeg files and supplies both high-level and raw access to the loaded data.

The embedded images can be easily decompressed or converted to other color formats or bit depth; writing Dicom Viewers or other applications is a quick and easy task.

Imebra also supports the Unicode standard (on the fly conversion to/from Dicom charsets), the caching of large tags, and the transactions (never leave a dataset in an unconsistent state), features that can be found only in high end and expensive libraries.

All the library's source code is available.
A sample application (dicom2jpeg) supplied with the library allows to convert dicom files to jpeg or movies.

Imebra and the sample applications is released under a dual-licensing scheme:

• the Affero GPL license (version 3)
• a commercial license

DicomXBridge is the new Dicom ocx/activex from Puntoexe.

Based on the open source dicom library Imebra, it supplies Dicom specific functions like the possibility to retrieve the original data written by the modalities and also the final visible image.

Click here to download the demo version of DicomXBridge

Click here to buy DicomXBridge (99 USD)

Dicom2Jpeg is an open source application that converts Dicom files to Jpeg.

The source code of Dicom2Jpeg is available as an example with the in the open source dicom library Imebra.

An executable file is available for Windows and for Ubuntu 8.04.

With Dicom Media Bridge you can play your Dicom files with media players or convert them to video files.

• An excellent alternative to the Dicom viewers: View your Dicom files with Media Player
• convert your Dicom files to WMV or RealVideo
• right-click on a Dicom file to copy and paste the image in thousand of applications including Microsoft Word and Powerpoint⁽¹⁾ (Windows XP only)
• browse their thumbnail previews

Click here to download the demo version (limited resolution)

Click here to buy Dicom Media Bridge Single user license (29 USD)

(see below if you need a site license)

Dicom Media Bridge is a dicom codec for Windows⁽¹⁾ that allows multimedia applications to read and display multiframe or single-frame Dicom files.

Now you can view the Dicom thumbnail in the file explorer, convert a Dicom file into an AVI, DIVX, WMV or other media file so they can be included in your documents or Powerpoint⁽¹⁾ presentations, or use your preferred movie player as a dicom viewer for multiframe dicom files.

On Windows XP right-click on a file with .dcm, .dic or .dicom extension and click on "Copy" and voilà, the image can be pasted into any application that can handle images, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint⁽¹⁾, Adobe Photoshop⁽²⁾, OpenOffice⁽³⁾ and thousand of other

With Dicom Media Bridge you can:

• Use your preferred media player (e.g.  Windows Media Player⁽¹⁾ or Divx Player⁽⁴⁾) as a dicom viewer
• Transform your Dicom files into Windows Media Video files (WMV) or RealVideo (RV) with the free applications Windows Media Encoder⁽¹⁾ or RealProducer⁽⁵⁾
  
• Prepare nice presentations using Windows Movie Maker⁽¹⁾ or other Video Editing applications
  
  
• Embed in your PowerPoint presentations the videos converted with Windows Media Encoder⁽¹⁾ and Dicom Media Bridge
  
  
• View thumbnail previews of the Dicom files in your folders (only for the files that have the dcm, dic or dicom extension)
  
  
• Display the main Dicom tags directly in the files explorer (feature not available on Windows Vista and Windows 7)
  
  
• Copy the Dicom images into your preferred application, like Microsoft Word or Powerpoint⁽¹⁾ directly from the files explorer  (feature not available on Windows Vista and Windows 7)

TwainBridge can handle all the video devices with WDM drivers.